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  http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2211626,00.asp

  RESTON, Virginia There was bipartisan agreement on display Thursday about the impact of Web 2.0 technology on politics. Joe Trippi, senior advisor to the John Edwards presidential campaign, and Cyrus Krohn, ... the director of the eCampaign division of the Republican National Committee, both spoke of how social networking has changed the face of politics on a panel at ExecutiveBiz's The New New Internet conference here. "It's going to overthrow the current structure [of politics]," Trippi said of the impact of the Web, social networking, and social media. Krohn concurred, saying, "The floodgates have been opened it's going to change politics forever." While the "first Internet President" has yet to be elected and the Internet may not be the deciding factor in the 2008 election it's clear to senior people within several campaigns that social networking is the only way for them to reach a segment of the population that politicians have generally ignored in the past. "More than half of people   [More...] [Less...]

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  Web 2.0-enabled firms to face increased security risk 

  http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=22442

  The changing nature and scale of security threats will pose more strenuous challenges for security administrators as they embrace the Web 2.0 world, according to research from WatchGuard Technologies Inc. ... The security appliance vendor's Rapid Response team has been tracking attack patterns over the last five years and has identified five key threats: DNS system attacks; viruses and malware; buggy web applications; hacking for profit; and end users. According to Steve Fallin, director of WatchGuard's Rapid Response team, the increasing range and sophistication of threats, combined with more complex architectures and the move to Web 2.0, will make the job of securing enterprise networks more difficult than ever before. "Other factors putting organizations at more risk include increased levels of remote access, continued poor user behavior and the shift from hobby hackers to organized crime," Fallin said in a statement. WatchGuard's survey found that the increasing complexity of networ   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 19 September 2007, by: Jutta Schrimpf  [Report as spam]

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