NSA monitored global financial transactions

Computerworld Security: September 17, 2013
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NSA monitored global financial transactions

A branch of the NSA has been collecting global financial data, including credit
card transactions and data from SWIFT, which runs an international bank
messaging system, according to a report Sunday from Der Spiegel.
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1. Update: Nasdaq waited two weeks to fix flaws
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2. Darlene Storm: Homeland Security testing facial recognition at hockey game
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Update: Nasdaq waited two weeks to fix flaws

A Swiss security firm says that potentially critical vulnerabilities it
doscovered on Nasdaq's website weren't fixed until more than two weeks after it
alerted the stock exchange to the problems.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8731501/823929835/631220/29/

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Darlene Storm: Homeland Security testing facial recognition at hockey game


What does hockey have to do with national security? Hockey fans make up a sea
of faces that will help the Department of Homeland Security test its facial
recognition software capabilities.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8731501/823929835/631221/31/

Patch expert wants Ballmer to get to the bottom of buggy Windows, Office updates

A Microsoft MVP and Windows expert has sent company CEO Steve Ballmer a letter
asking him to look into the worrisome trend of releasing sub-standard patches.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8731501/823929835/631222/32/



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