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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2004 NSF Awards Grants for Internet Security PeopleSoft Announces Deal with IBM DHS to Require Airlines to Submit Passenger Data NSF AWARDS GRANTS FOR INTERNET SECURITY As part of its Cyber Trust program, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded grants of more than $12 million to fund two research centers that will study ways to deal with malicious code, including viruses and worms. The Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses, led by Stefan Savage of the University of California at San Diego and Vern Paxson of the University of California at Berkeley, will receive $6.2 million to study self-replicating computer code and ways to prevent it from spreading. The Security Through Interaction Modeling (STIM) Center, to be led by Mike Reiter of Carnegie Mellon University, will work to draw comparisons between nature and computer networks in an effort to identify "unhealthy" network interactions from legitimate ones. The STIM will receive nearly $6.4 million from the NSF. CNET, 21 September 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5376474.html PEOPLESOFT ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH IBM PeopleSoft this week announced a significant deal with IBM that will allow PeopleSoft customers to more easily link different software systems together. Under the partnership, valued at more than $1 billion over five years, PeopleSoft will provide applications and IBM will supply the underlying technology. PeopleSoft customers will also be able to choose software from Microsoft, BEA Systems, or other vendors instead of IBM. The announcement came not long after a federal judge ruled against the U.S. Justice Department in its attempt to block the hostile takeover of PeopleSoft by Oracle. PeopleSoft has said that Oracle's takeover bid, which began more than a year ago, has cost the company more than $1 billion in lost revenue from potential customers unwilling to risk buying PeopleSoft's products only to have the company acquired by Oracle. The announcement of the deal with IBM, which PeopleSoft said was initiated prior to the recent court ruling, is seen as a statement from the company that it is continuing to conduct business as usual despite the growing threat that Oracle's takeover may eventually succeed. New York Times, 22 September 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/technology/22soft.html DHS TO REQUIRE AIRLINES TO SUBMIT PASSENGER DATA The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it will require domestic airlines to provide one month's worth of passenger data to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for testing the Secure Flight program. The Secure Flight program replaced the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II) program for increasing airline security after questions were raised about privacy safeguards of CAPPS II. A TSA spokesperson highlighted the privacy efforts underlying the Secure Flight program, and Nuala O'Connor Kelly, chief privacy officer at the DHS, complimented the TSA's efforts at including strong privacy protections in the system. Airlines will have 30 days to comment on the requirement, after which passenger data from June 2004 will be submitted to the TSA. Testing of the Secure Flight program will involve checking the June passenger data against a single database of the government's terrorist watch list, which currently includes 120,000 names. The agency goal is to determine if the system can check passenger information for two million travelers per day with fewer false identifications than the current system produces. Wired News, 22 September 2004 http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65040,00.html ***************************************************** EDUPAGE INFORMATION To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your settings, visit http://www.educause.edu/pub/edupage/ Or, you can subscribe or unsubscribe by sending e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE, in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName To UNSUBSCRIBE, in the body of the message type: SIGNOFF Edupage If you have subscription problems, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For past issues of Edupage or information about translations of Edupage into other languages, visit http://www.educause.edu/pub/edupage/ ***************************************************** OTHER EDUCAUSE PUBLICATIONS EDUCAUSE publishes periodicals, including "EQ" and "EDUCAUSE Review," books, and other materials dealing with the impacts and implications of information technology in higher education. For information on EDUCAUSE publications see http://www.educause.edu/pub/ ***************************************************** CONFERENCES For information on all EDUCAUSE learning and networking opportunities, see http://www.educause.edu/conference/ ***************************************************** COPYRIGHT Edupage copyright (c) 2004, EDUCAUSE
