Word: csi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week's sting operation began with a phone call to the London office of CSI Technologies, Inc., an electronics firm based in San Marcos, Calif. The inquiry came from EUROMAC Ltd., a London-based front company for the Iraqi government headed by Ali Ashour Daghir, 49, an Iraqi citizen residing in England. CSI officials were instantly suspicious of EUROMAC's specifications. "They were such that their most likely use would be for detonating a nuclear bomb," says CSI President Jerry Kowalsky. CSI contacted both the U.S. Customs Service and the CIA, and a sting was hatched...
Last September CSI arranged a face-to-face meeting with Iraqi government officials in the cafe of the Cavendish hotel on London's Jermyn Street. On one side of the table sat Daghir, Jeanine Speckman and two men introduced as Iraqi government engineers. On the other side sat Kowalsky and his manager for finance and export, "Daniel Saunders." But Saunders was actually Daniel Supnick, 38, a U.S. Customs agent...
...getting our computers all hooked together through local and national networks; its also getting harder and harder because of the increasing number of micros. "Ashton says. Communications and microcomputers are probably the hottest topics [in computer security] right now, says Russell Kay, director of Computer Security Institute (CSI), a 3000-member trade organization for the computer security field. "Micros are proliferating at an incredibly rapid rate," Kay adds...
...your operating system security within the applications can't be well maintained," says Ashton. Nonetheless, security per se is not generally acknowledged to be the responsibility of the manufacturer. "It's not General Motors' responsibility to enforce the speeding law . . . but one can make cars more crash-resistant," says CSI...
...better things in life, many of them Western. French wine is said to have flowed freely, and salads were served punctiliously after the main course, Continental-style. Other comrades may have patriotically downed vodka, but Andropov apparently preferred to sip Johnnie Walker Scotch. Sándor Kopácsi, a former Budapest chief of police who now lives in Toronto, was frequently on the Soviet Ambassador's guest list and recalls how Andropov used to borrow the police force's gypsy band. With a clear tenor voice, Andropov would join in song fests. He was especially fond...