AP Poll: Security Top Issue for Americans
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National security issues such as the war in Iraq and terrorism are dominating voters' attention in the final weeks before Election Day, Associated Press polling found.
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WASHINGTON -- You may lock your doors and windows -- and maybe even activate an alarm system to keep your home protected. But a new study indicates that most of us haven&#39;t taken the equivalent of those basic
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U.S. officials hoping to stop a  possible al Qaeda attack before the November election face the  difficult task of providing enough security without scaring  voters away from the polling stations.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 11, 2004 - President Bush has a slight lead over Democrat John Kerry in an Associated Press poll, but the president has a big advantage on protecting the country the issue voters say they care about most.
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The Associated Press just made news. It wants to stop making news. Good for the AP. Bad for the BCS. The news is out that the Associated Press has decided to not let its weekly football poll serve as part
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Although more than two-thirds of home computer users think they're safe from online threats, an AOL survey found that 20% of home computers were infected by a virus or worm and 80% had various forms of spyware and adware programs.
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ComputerWorld AU: Respondents to the 2004 Ernst &amp; Young Global Information Security Survey cited lack of security awareness by end users as the top barrier to achieving the required level of security.
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com September 20, 2004, 12:05 PM PT. Most IT Managers won&#39;t question the importance of security, but this priority has been sliding between the third and fourth most important focus for companies.
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The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that will track the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The third wave of this study included re-interviews of 2,016 people between Jan. 18-28 who were originally interviewed in November or early December. The extensive national survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, Calif., under the direction and supervision of AP's polling unit.
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(InfoWorld) - More than half of U.S. government employees unofficially work at home on nights or weekends, raising concerns about the security of the data they're working on, according to a study released Monday. Fifty-eight percent of government employees work from home without permission, according a survey by the Telework Exchange, a group that advocates for more telecommuting opportunities. One year after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced thatÂ a laptop and hard drive were stolenÂ from an employee's home, many U.S. agencies still lack plans for dealing with teleworking employees, the survey suggests. Fifty-four percent of these unofficial teleworkers carry files home, according to the survey. The VA hardware, later recovered, contained the personal information of 26.5 million military veterans and family members. Even after the breach, 13 percent of U.S. agencies do not put encryption on new laptops issued, compared to 11 percent that did not include encryption before the VA breach, according to the survey. Less than half of agencies updated their encryption and protection technologies, and less than half provided security training to employees after the VA breach, the survey said. Sixteen percent of agencies did not react at all, the survey said. "It's kind of alarming ... that people still are not doing everything they can do to protect their mobile devices," said Joshua Wolfe, director of federal sales for Utimaco Safeware, a cybersecurity vendor that underwrote the survey. "You've got a lot of unofficial teleworkers out there who are taking information out of the agency and working from home on unsecured computers." Teleworking itself isn't the problem, Wolfe said. U.S. government workers who have permission to telework generally have more security training and more security tools on their work computers than those unofficial teleworkers. For example, 94 percent of survey respondents who are official teleworkers said they have antivirus software on their work computers. Only 75 percent of respondents who don't officially telework said they had antivirus software on their work computers. Sixty-seven percent of teleworkers said they had encryption on their work computers, while only 60 percent of non-teleworkers said they did. The major problem is that U.S. agencies don't seem to be keeping up with the trend toward mobile computing, Wolfe said. "Over the past year, more and more people have been given mobile devices," he said. "At the same time, [they] have not been given the tools from a policy perspective." Utimaco and the Telework Exchange recommended that U.S. agencies determine how many of their employees are unofficially teleworking. All employees, not just teleworkers, should receive cybersecurity training, and agencies should use encryption and other data security protections on all desktops and laptops, they recommended. The Telework Exchange conducted the survey of 258 U.S. agency employees in May. The survey has a margin of error of 6.1 percent.
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Americans are very worried about the long-term future of the country, and they don't think Congress is paying attention to big issues on the horizon, like Social Security and global warming, according to a survey released Friday.
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Most Americans say they're confident about the safety of prescription drugs sold in the United States, according to an Associated Press poll taken at a time when several popular medications have been linked to increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Fixing cybersecurity problems in the U.S. is a top priority at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said the agency's leader, but lawmakers didn't focus on the issue during a hearing in Congress Wednesday.
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For Democrats, war looms as the nation's most pressing problem. Republicans cite the economy, terrorism, the war and immigration, the Associated Press-Ipsos poll found.
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com October 7, 2004, 3:26 PM PT. Most IT Managers won&#39;t question the importance of security, but this priority has been sliding between the third and fourth most important focus for companies.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Terrorism is the biggest short-term threat to the US economy, according to a survey in August by the National Association of Business Economics.
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