The EUROSAFE Forum 2004 will be held in Berlin on November 8 and 9. The Eurosafe Forum 2003 – the fifth of its kind – was held at the Palais Brongniart in Paris on November 25 and 26, 2003. This year's theme was: "Nuclear expertise and challenges of the enlargement of the European Union": Environmental scan before enlargement, speakers in the various European countries, development and structuring perspectives within the enlarged Europe". The event brought together 445 experts and researchers from around the world (including

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Cyber threats are fundamentally different from any other because they usually do not involve any kinetic, or in other words physical, effects or actions. Yet they nonetheless have a huge potential for damage because digital and networked enabled elements permeate our governments, infrastructure, businesses and even private lives. Such threats are fundamentally borderless and global in nature. They can originate from absolutely any place in the world and target virtually any other place. In addition some attacks may originate in one country, use a botnet (a group of voluntarily or involuntarily remotely controlled computers, used to increase the effect of some types of cyber attacks) of computers in another (or even several other) country and target a server or website in a third. Thus effective solutions for such global threats have to in turn also be truly global. Threats: There has been confusion on the criteria used to determine the definition of the term Cyber Threats or computer crimes. Some argued that, it is any crime that involves the use of computer; some argued that, it is a crime in the presence of a computer. However, some have criticized the categorization of cyber crime. Don Gotternbarn argued that,

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and vendor firms in offshore locations pose unique management challenges. This literature review analyzes the role of cultural differences between client and vendor companies and management practices in the information systems (IS) offshore outsourcing context. The analysis of the existing IS literature

regions in Asia and elsewhere means that it is no longer valid to assume that skilled immigrants will stay permanently in the United States. Recent research suggests that the "brain drain" may be giving way to a process of "brain circulation, " as talented immigrants