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SYSTEMS UPDATE Vol. 21 No. 4 JUL/AUG 2002 issue

A.I.R. WITH STATE OF THE ART IMAGING FACILITY
HOAXES & VIRUSES
NETSWIFT iGATE TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION ACCESS
SYSTEMS DESIGN TO SELL XES X2 PLOTTERS
TRAINING CLASS
X2 TRAINING IN BEIJING
3COM NIC

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1. A.I.R. WITH STATE OF THE ART IMAGING FACILITY

Advanced Integrated Radiology will have state of the art imaging facility fully operational in Camden Medical Centre in Sep 2002. Taking up the entire second level of Camden Medical Centre, Advanced Integrated Radiology offers the full range of imaging services to maximise the convenience of both the patient and health care provider while enabling the highest quality of care. The RIS (Radiology Information System) is provided by Systems Design.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0208/AIR.html

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2. HOAXES & VIRUSES

Politically motivated virus makes it into the top three.

This is the latest in a series of monthly charts counting down the ten most frequently occurring viruses and hoaxes.

For July 2002, the virus chart is as follows, with the most frequently occurring virus at number one:

Position Last Mth Virus Percentage of reports

    1                      W32/Klez-H                                           17.7%

    5                      W32/Frethern-Fam                              17.0%

    6                      W32/Yaha-E                                          16.8%

    3                      W32/Badtrans-B                                   5.8%

    2                      W32/ElKem-C                                       3.7%

    7                      W32/Magistr-B                                      2.5%

    Re-entry         W32/Klez-E                                            1.7%

    Re-entry         W32/Nimda-A                                        1.5%

    Re-entry       W32/Magistr-A                                         1.3%

                            Otbers                                                     30.1%

“While Klez tops the virus chart again this month, more recent discoveries Frethem and Yaha are close on its heels,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos Anti-Virus. “Yaha came to prominence as a politically motivated virus, launching a rudimentary denial of service attack on the Pakistan government’s website and encouraging Indian hackers and virus writers to join forces and attack Pakistan.”

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0208/sophos.html

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3. NETSWIFT iGATE TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION ACCESS

Rainbow Technologies has recently introduced a complete solution for building an Instant Private Web with two-factor authentication on the client side. Each user is issued with a personal USB token (like ATM card) that comes with pin that the user is logout after a number of incorrect attempts or when the token is removed from their desktop.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0208/netswiftigate.html

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4. SYSTEMS DESIGN TO SELL XES X2 PLOTTERS

Xerox Engineering Systems has appointed Systems Design to sell the X2 range of plotters recently. An engineer, Chia Yee Jock, has already attended the maintenance training in Beijing. X2 has two versions, namely, TECH and Graphic Arts. The Graphic Arts has 6 colors (Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Black, Light Cyan and Light Magenta) whilst the TECH has Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and 3 Blacks. Because the X2 uses oil based inks, the plots can dry up almost instantaneously when plotted and UV resistant too. But the amazing advantage is the speed.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0208/XES X2.html

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5. TRAINING CLASS

The next training class for WinNT4.0 and SDpkgs Administration are on 10, 11 and 13 September (pm) respectively.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0208/training.html

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6. X2 TRAINING IN BEIJING

Chia Yee Jock, Technical Specialist at Systems Design, was in Beijing to attend the X2 plotter maintenance course from 1 – 3 July. Although the training was conducted in Mandarin and English, the training material provided were all in English. Six people attended including engineers from Suzhou and Beijing.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0208/X2training.html

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7. 3COM NIC HAS FIREWALL

To protect enterprise desktops and servers from attacks by internal staff or external outsiders, 3Com and Secure Computing together has come up with a firewall functionality network interface card for server or client PC. Without this card, an outsider or staff who may be given access to get into a corporate sales server may snoop into the corporate accounting server. The protection is on the access coming through the Internet Firewall and not within the corporate network. Once through, each server does not have individual firewall for protection.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0208/3COM.html

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