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On November 13, due to a virus attack computer network of Department of Internal Affairs of Almaty has failed. As a result, there was a failure in the work of the divisions and services of the Department of Internal Affairs of the city, – said the press service of the Department of Internal Affairs. The work on registration of the people driving motor transport by proxy, registration of references of citizen’s vehicles, issuing of driver's licenses and transport checkup partially or completely halted. After two days, the incident was eliminated and experts ensure functioning of the equipment and network environment in the previous mode. Source: Kazakhstan Today, 11/15/2007 Experts suppose that the incident was caused by an organizational and management problem, and say that overall security level of computer network in Kazakhstan state agencies is high. General opinion expresses overall improvements in use of computer technologies in government offices, adequate staff training and information security enforcement. Source: CNews.ru. Link to article in Russian: http://www.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2007/11/15/275215