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		<title>Computer breach may have exposed Social Security numbers at Penn State Schuylkill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SCHUYLKILL HAVEN &#8211; About 15,000 Social Security numbers on file at Penn State Schuylkill may have been exposed when school computers were affected by malware, a university official said Wednesday. &#8220;There&#8217;s no evidence that they were actually accessed, but they were on that computer. We err on the side of caution and notify (anyone who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US, UK confident of nuclear security in Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States and Britain expressed confidence on Sunday in the security of Pakistani nuclear facilities after an attack by Taliban militants on the country&#8217;s army headquarters. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a news conference in London that Washington had every confidence in the Pakistani government&#8217;s control over its nuclear weapons. Read More: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Secure Is Our Southern Border?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the border with Mexico is more secure and it is time to change immigration law. Napolitano says the Obama administration has completed the construction of 600 miles of border fence. But critics say the fencing is inadequate and incomplete. Others worry environmental laws are blocking construction of parts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin Boosts Security Amid Terror Fears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fears of a potential terror attack are overshadowing festivities to mark the anniversary of German reunification. Security around the Brandenburg Gate is tight with increased police presence. The capital&#8217;s interior minister, meanwhile, urged Berliners to be &#8220;increasingly vigilant.&#8221; Berlin&#8217;s police force is on high alert. Following a series of al-Qaida propaganda videos directly threatening Germany, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi PM vows to punish security members involved in Wednesday&#8217;s attacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed Saturday to punish security members who were involved in Wednesday&#8217;s deadly truck bombings. &#8220;We have taken significant measures in dealing with deficiencies and shortcomings (of the security forces) and we will severely punish those involved in these crimes,&#8221; Maliki said in a televised speech without disclosing what the measures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN Security Council members reach consensus on DPRK nuclear test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning &#8220;in the strongest terms&#8221; a recent nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and imposing new sanctions. Resolution 1874 demanded that the DPRK &#8220;not conduct any further nuclear test or any launch using ballistic missile technology&#8221; and urged that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer security community braces for possible worm attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Government and private security teams are in a rush to get tooled up for possible new attacks by a computer worm that threatens to carry on disruptive activities on April 1. The Conficker worm, also known as Downadup or Kido, first appeared last November and is estimated to have infected millions of computers worldwide. By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq to Deny New License To Blackwater Security Firm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Iraqi government has informed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that it will not issue a new operating license to Blackwater Worldwide, the embassy&#8217;s primary security company, which has come under scrutiny for allegedly using excessive force while protecting American diplomats, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Wednesday. Iraq&#8217;s Interior Ministry conveyed its decision to U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A National Security Team That Looks Like the Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama yesterday introduced a war cabinet that is more diverse than that of any other president in recent history, appointing three women and two African Americans to his top national security and foreign policy posts. But the six folks nominated mirror the national security slates of the last three presidents in one key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expert warns against major Internet security flaw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) &#8212; A network security expert reaffirmed his warning about a major Internet flaw that hackers can use to attack corporate or even personal networks. Security expert Dan Kaminsky&#8217;s renewed warning follows a major Justice Department crackdown on an alleged international ring of computer hackers accused of selling millions of credit and debit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security Clearance ‘Question 21′ Eliminated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having been in the past investigated for a security clearance, and used as a reference for others seeking a security clearance, I can personally attest to it being a somewhat wacky process (but in the end, much, much less scary and typically not as intrusive as those outside the world of security might fear). This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Dads&#8217; Army&#8217; to protect against security threats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown wants tens of thousands of Britons to join a new Dads’ Army-style volunteer force to help the Government tackle threats to national security. The Prime Minister also said ministers will also publish an annual risk register of the top threats facing Britain, from the Al Qaeda terror threat to flooding and cyber crime. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basra residents consider security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three Basra residents discuss their hopes and worries about security, as British forces hand over the province to Iraqis. When our brother got kidnapped in November, we went to the police with the phone number of the people who had demanded a ransom. For the entire month that our brother was held, we didn&#8217;t get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security Council adopts resolution authorizing AU-UN peacekeeping in Darfur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS, July 31 (Xinhua) &#8212; The UN Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt a resolution authorizing a 26,000-strong joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sudan. Under the resolution, cosponsored by Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, Peru and Slovakia, the hybrid operation in Darfur, known as UNAMID, would be authorized and mandated for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private guards weak link in homeland security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Private security guards paid little more than janitors and restaurant cooks are guarding many of the critical security sites in the United States, usually with minimal or no anti-terrorist training, an Associated Press investigation found. The nation&#8217;s security industry found itself involuntarily transformed after Sept. 11, 2001, from an army of &#8220;rent-a-cops&#8221; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armed Iraqis Wary of Security Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ernesto Londoño and Joshua Partlow Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, February 15, 2007 BAGHDAD, Feb. 14 &#8212; At least once a week inside his stationery shop, Ali al-Yousef stacks up old notebooks in the back room and fires his pistol at them. &#8220;Target practice,&#8221; Yousef said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t like guns, but we have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Democrats’ Security Bill Draws Doubts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Eric Lipton WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 — House Democrats intend to fulfill a campaign promise this week by passing broad new antiterrorism legislation, but some Senate Democrats and the Bush administration object to security mandates in the plan, citing concerns about their cost and practicality. Threats &#38; Responses The House measure, the Sept. 11 Commission [...]]]></description>
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