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RAIN 9/25: laid-off techies, Hilton Head cemeteries, Aging ledger



There are 11 stories in this posting.

New York Times 9/24/01
Hacker alters Yahoo! News pages
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Yahoo-News-Hacked.html?searchpv=
aponline

AP
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- The dangers of Internet worms and viruses are well
known, but security experts are warning of a more pernicious and potentially
more damaging kind of attack -- the manipulation of content on trusted Web
sites.
Last week, Yahoo (news/quote) was alerted by security intelligence company
SecurityFocus.com that a hacker had rather easily entered Yahoo's news pages
and inserted phony quotes and wrong information on stories.


Buffalo News 9/24/01
Aging ledger preserves details of McKinley funeral preparations
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20010924/1013970.asp

by Karen Brady
In the early hours of Sept. 14, 1901, Buffalo undertaker George E. Drullard
was charged with a daunting task.
He was to tend to the body of President William McKinley, who had died at
2:15 a.m. in the home of Pan-American Exposition President John G. Milburn.
"You can just imagine the people around that night, and the stress on Mr.
Drullard," said Kenmore funeral director D. Lawrence Ginnane - who owns
Drullard's records of that somber time.



Cincinnati Business Courier 9/24/01
Dot Cincinnati: Hamilton County Clerk of Courts
http://cincinnati.bcentral.com/cincinnati/stories/2001/09/24/smallb2.html

by Dan Monk
Those looking for splashy graphics should steer clear of the Hamilton County
Clerk of Court's Web site.
But those looking for easy access to voluminous mounds of local public
records should bookmark http://www.courtclerk.org.
With nearly 4 million documents online, the site is regularly visited by
attorneys, dozens of whom now file lawsuits over the Internet. Journalists
use it to get copies of lawsuits and other records. Landlords use it for
background checks on potential tenants.



Virginian Pilot 9/24/01
Computer systems' overruns cost state programs time and money
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0924com.html

by Christina Nuckols
RICHMOND -- Computers are supposed to make state government run more
efficiently and public agencies less of a headache to deal with. But just as
they do on the job and at home, computer glitches give rise to fist-pounding
frustration in state agencies, taxpayer lament, and millions of dollars in
waste. Virginia spent at least $47 million in the past decade in budget
overruns for new computer systems, according to an analysis by The
Virginian-Pilot. In two instances, newly purchased equipment was junked
without ever being used. State residents have felt the throb of high-tech
headaches through poor government services. Among the most recent in a
string of embarrassing computer flubs in Virginia government was the delay
this summer of tens of thousands of tax refunds. Some taxpayers are still
waiting for their checks. Talk with workers in just about any of the state's
major agencies and even some of its colleges and universities and computer
horror stories abound.



Las Vegas Review-Journal 9/24/01
Reno officials seem married to myth of city's splitsville past
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Sep-24-Mon-2001/news/17047250.html

by Ed Vogel
RENO -- Divorce may be easy in Nevada, but not so easy is dispelling one of
the state's enduring myths: that divorcees fresh from leaving the Washoe
County Courthouse would throw their wedding bands into the Truckee River.
Placed near the river in downtown Reno in February was a 30-foot sculpture
of two steel rings tilting away from each other. The piece by sculptor
Dennis Oppenheim, called "Engagement," symbolizes the precarious balance
between two people in a marriage.



Las Vegas Sun 9/24/01
Metro will begin purging expired work card records
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/2001/sep/24/512394425.html

by Keith Paul
Metro Police will immediately start removing about 1 million expired work
card records from a computer data base, local officials said this morning.
This action will also make unusable related police records on work card
holders such as fingerprint and photo files.
Metro's fiscal affairs committee gave its approval this morning to start
purging out-of-date records from SCOPE, the statewide law enforcement data
base. Metro is still working on a plan to purge current files that are no
longer required, Deputy Chief Richard McKee told the panel.



Chicago Sun-Times 9/24/01
Medical records improvement urged
http://www.suntimes.com/output/health/cst-fin-med22.html

by Laura Landro
Wall Street Journal
Electronic medical records that could instantly supply a person's blood
type, allergies and past treatments could help save lives in an emergency,
many experts agree.
The technology exists to share such personal data on the Internet, but
efforts to implement a nationwide system have been stymied by high costs, a
highly fragmented health-care system and privacy concerns.



Contra Costa Times 9/24/01
New 'war vote' virus deletes computer files
http://www.contracostatimes.com/computing/stories_internetwire/1513741l.htm

by Elinor Mills Abreu
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Security experts on Monday warned of a brand new
virus masquerading as a program that will allow people to vote whether the
United States should go to war over the deadly Sept. 11 hijacker attacks,
but which deletes computer files instead.
The ``Vote Virus'' is spreading via e-mail to users of Microsoft Corp.'s
(MSFT.O) Outlook e-mail program, said Simon Perry, vice president of
security solutions at Computer Associates International Inc. (CA.N)



New York Times 9/24/01
Laid-off techies swiping good on way out
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1007-200-7285664.html?searchpv=cnet

by Rachel Konrad
CNET News.com
When a Cleveland-based business-to-business start-up failed several months
ago, executives planned to follow a well-paved dot-com death pattern: Lay
off workers, sell assets and reimburse creditors.
Employees had a different plan. Between the layoffs and the asset auction,
they apparently walked off with $35,000 worth of laptops, handheld
computers, monitors and laser printers. That left some executives, venture
capitalists and other uninsured creditors in a financial lurch.



Beaufort Gazette 9/24/01
Man documents Hilton Head cemeteries
http://www.beaufortgazette.com/localnews/story/0,1458,292647,00.html

by Laura Marble
Howard Wright sat with an 82-year-old native of Hilton Head Island, running
a video camera in her kitchen as she recounted stories about her family
members now buried in Drayton Cemetery.
"Viola is a popular name," he said. "There are Viola Greens, Grants,
Wrights, Chisolms, and Campbells. There's not one gravesite where I haven't
found at least two Violas. I find that to be curious."



News24.com 9/17/01
Theft at SACP offices in KZN
http://news.24.com/News24/South_Africa/KwaZulu-Natal/0,1113,2-7-831_1081545,
00.html

SAPA
Durban - The SACP on Monday condemned what it believed was the
"politically-motivated theft" of computers, documents and money from its
KwaZulu-Natal provincial office over the weekend.
In a statement, spokesperson Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara said: "We regard this
theft of two computers, hard copies of several political documents and a sum
of R2 600 from our Durban office on Saturday as politically motivated and
well planned.

Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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