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		<title>Health Insurance Industry Opens Check Books for Mitt Romney, Barack Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hooker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research by the Center for Responsive Politics shows that President Barack Obama and his GOP rival Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, are the only two presidential candidates to have raised more than $40,000 from the health insurance industry so far this election cycle.]]></description>
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		<title>What Western Cyber Initiative’s Doug DePeppe has in store for National Cyber Security Awareness Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ With National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2011 right around the corner, the NCSA is asking our collaborators how they will be recognizing the month. Today, we spoke with Doug DePeppe, Principal at i2 Information Security and Founder of a nonprofit ...]]></description>
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		<title>OpenSecrets.org Wins Prestigious Online Journalism Award For Best Topical Reporting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Are You Doing Your Part to Secure Cyberspace? Sign the MS-ISAC Pledge and Show Your Commitment!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NCSA Guest Blogger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) has launched a national Cyber Security Pledge campaign to encourage citizens to declare their commitment to using good practices for staying safe on the Internet.The online movement run...]]></description>
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		<title>Donor to Lindsey Graham Indicted for Illegal Campaign Contributions, Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Cline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A South Carolina pharmaceutical executive and major contributor to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has been indicted for making at least $31,000 in illegal donations to the senator and embezzling at least $3.6 million of federal grant money, which Graham helped to earmark.]]></description>
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		<title>What community-based organizations can do for National Cyber Security Awareness Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maurak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Just ten more days until National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2011 begins! Participation is a breeze when you follow our Get Involved! sheets. Today, we’re focusing on the role that community-based organizations can play.
As a community-based org...]]></description>
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		<title>Securing Our eCity®’s Liz Fraumann has big plans for National Cyber Security Awareness Month</title>
		<link>http://staysafeonline.org/blog/securing-our-ecity%C2%AE%E2%80%99s-liz-fraumann-has-big-plans-national-cyber-security-awareness-month</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maurak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ We are now just two weeks away from National Cyber Security Awareness Month! Recently, we caught up with Liz Fraumann, Director of Cyber Security Awareness and Education at Securing Our eCity. Securing Our eCity, a local initiative led by software com...]]></description>
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		<title>Democrat David Weprin Holds Financial Advantage in Home Stretch of New York Special Election</title>
		<link>http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/09/democrat-david-weprin-holds-financi.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Cline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the contest to fill the House seat of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), Democratic candidate David Weprin is out-pacing his Republican opponent, Bob Turn, in terms of fund-raising.]]></description>
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		<title>Rogue Antivirus Software: Think Before You Download</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NCSA Guest Blogger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The NCSA is pleased to present a guest blog by Karen McDowell, Ph.D., Information Security Analyst for the University of Virginia.


Now that this unusually hot summer is coming to a close, you may be going back to school with a new computer, or you m...]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Tennis Greats, Rick Perry Bundles Up and More in Capital Eye Opener: Sept. 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Cline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the US Open begins in Flushing Meadows, Open Secrets Blog takes a look at the political contributions of some of the sport's biggest names.]]></description>
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		<title>Political Donors&#8217; Gender Disparity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Beckel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women still have a long way to go before they see equality as political donors. At the federal level, men consistently give more than two-thirds of all itemized donations when measured by number of donors and amount of money contributed.]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Matthew Pirko of San Antonio’s Cyber City USA Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maurak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ With National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2011 coming up, cyber advocates all over the country are preparing to push out the message of online safety and security. One such advocate is Matt Pirko, Principal at JesRico Consulting and a volunteer for...]]></description>
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		<title>An Emerging Trend in Online Consumer Complaints</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Gin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ On SiteJabber, we see a range of positive and negative consumer reviews of online businesses. Negative reviews range from complaints of outright fraud to lousy customer service. However, over the last year, a trend has emerged in these complaints: con...]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting viruses &#8211; defending the net: A TED Talk by Mikko Hypponen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As computer access expands, Mikko Hypponen asks: What&#8217;s the next killer virus, and will the world be able to cope with it? The chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation in Finland, Mikko Hypponen has led his team through some of the largest computer virus outbreaks in history. His team took down the world-wide network used [...]]]></description>
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