RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news 
stories from around the world.

ARCHIVES yield day-after Nagasaki aerial photos
The Japan Times - Japan
... over the devastated city Aug. 10, 1945, were found at the US 
National
Archives and Records Administration. They are believed to ...
<http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050726f1.htm>


STATE of the nation survey to reveal threat to the UK's digital ...
eGov monitor - London,UK
... of University Research Libraries (CURL), the Digital Curation 
Centre,
the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the National Archives,
the National ...
<http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/2118>


DATA Encryption Systems Makes Powerful Data and Identity ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... and strong encryption of documents, files, folders and ... along 
with
various cache and temporary files. ... copyrighted materials, medical
records, government files ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050725/nym088.html?.v=12>


PUBLIC to have opportunity to securely destroy private papers
Louisville Business First - Louisville,KY,USA
... Shred-it is an on-site document shredding and recycling company that
provides document destruction to more than 150,000 clients around the
world through 120 ...
<http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2005/07/25/daily7.html?jst=b_ln_hl>


80 Years Ago, They Inherited the Wind
New York Times - United States
... Last week, the Smithsonian Institution archives announced that 
Marcel
C. LaFollette, a ... The photos provide what Ellen Alers, an assistant
archivist, called a ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/science/26scop.html>


HALL Of Fame Archives To Be Released
Billboard Radio Monitor - New York,NY,USA
... companies, LSL Productions and Tremelo Productions, to make 
available
for commercial release video and audio programming from the museum's 
vast
archives. ...
<http://billboardradiomonitor.com/radiomonitor/news/format/country/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000991824>


ARCHIVE Essentials
50 Connect - UK
... and Islington. Amazing archives telling both local and national 
stories
can be found in this compact 'genealogy village'. The map ...
<http://50connect.co.uk/50c/gene.asp?article=11250>


Driven to distraction by technology
By Ina Fried
http://news.com.com/Driven+to+distraction+by+technology/2100-1022_3-5797028.html

The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone 
call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that 
it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a 
really creative state.


CSO
Write People into the Plot
Business continuity plans truly work only if they take employee needs 
into account
<http://www.csoonline.com/read/070105/write.html?action=print>


eWeek.com
USB Devices Can Crack Windows
Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to 
take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed 
Universal Serial Bus device, according to an executive from SPI 
Dynamics, which discovered the security hole.
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1840141,00.asp?kc=ewnws072505dtx1k0000599>


New York Times
Main Street in the Cross Hairs
By ERIC DASH
Along a crowded stretch of highway just south of Miami's downtown is a 
shopping area that might be called the data theft capital of the United 
States. In the wireless hacker equivalent of a drive-by shooting wave, 
criminals obtained the cardholder information of tens of thousands of 
customers at four major stores there, including a DSW Shoes retail 
outlet that appears to have been the initial source of a chainwide data 
breach.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/business/26card.html?>


THE Deed? It's Not Yet in the Mail
New York Times - United States
... the beginning of the year and finally had to subpoena documents last
week ... Long Island real estate and refinance market, where the number
of deeds and mortgages ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/27/nyregion/27towns.html>



Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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