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A college student was indicted on Thursday on charges he placed software on dozens of computers that allowed him to secretly monitor what people were typing, and then stole around $2,000 using information he gleaned. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 07, 2003

Spyware found on one in three corporate networks

One in three European companies are harbouring spyware apps on their networks, a new study claims. Spyware applications, programs which surreptitiously send information from surfers' PCs to marketing outfits, are becoming a bigger problem, according to the Emerging Internet Threats Survey 2003. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 07, 2003

Era of Web Anonymity Could Be Drawing To A Close

Downloading free music online has been a relatively risk-free hobby for millions of people during the past few years. While record companies, politicians and technology companies fought the battle on a big scale, you loaded your hard drive with Mp3 . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 04, 2003

Tackling Identity Theft

A fourth man has been arrested as part of the largest identity theft case in U.S. history. Federal officials say Emanuel S. Ezediaro is charged with buying and selling credit reports of tens of thousands of people. If convicted of wire . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 30, 2003

ID Management Takes A Leap Into Privacy Protection

Identity management is more than just granting and revoking user access to business systems. With the introduction of new auditing practices and regulations by the federal government, businesses are being held accountable for the security of their users' personal information. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 30, 2003

Beware the ‘Joe Job’

Late last year, Steve Long opened up his e-mail account and got a huge surprise: A ton of rejected or redirected e-mails he didn't write. "I thought, 'Oh, I wrote in the wrong address.' 137 (e-mails) later I realized something's wrong," he said. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 28, 2003

Spam Filtering With gzip

I was reading through a bioinformatics book the other day, and was reminded of a useful shortcut for comparing a text against various corpora. A number of researchers have simply fed DNA sequence data into the popular Ziv-Lempel compression algorithm, to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 27, 2003

Services That Stop Spam

Smaller enterprises may be overwhelmed with the number of tactics needed to protect their connection to the Internet. Even large companies are often glad to offload this burdensome task. Engaging a service can provide a very high level of expertise focused . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 27, 2003

Identity-theft Complaints Double, Tops List

Complaints about identity theft nearly doubled in 2002 as the fast-growing crime topped the government's list of consumer frauds for a third consecutive year. The Federal Trade Commission reports that 43 percent of roughly 380,000 complaints involved the hijacking of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 23, 2003

Top 10 Tips For Setting A Secure Communications Policy

Employee misuse of corporate e-mail has been a source of liability for numerous organizations, and many are now moving to develop policies that define appropriate usage. Businesses are also increasingly adopting policies to ensure that government regulations are met, sensitive business . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 23, 2003

Surveillance Plan Worries GOP Senator

A senior Republican senator yesterday expressed concern that a Pentagon surveillance program could be used on U.S. citizens and may "have a chilling effect on civil liberties." In a letter to Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 22, 2003

Better Bayesian Filtering

Spam filtering is a subset of text classification, which is a well established field, but the first papers about Bayesian spam filtering per se seem to have been two given at the same conference in 1998, one by Pantel and Lin, and another by a group from Microsoft Research. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 21, 2003

Brains Gather To Outsmart Spam

Unsolicited e-mail messages, or spam, are on track to make up the majority of traffic on the Internet. But a group of researchers and developers gathered here Friday hopes to halt that by coming up with better ways of blocking those . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 21, 2003

IT Has a Vital Role to Play in the Assault on Privacy

From 1946 to 1960, the FBI operated 3,000 wiretaps and 800 bugs on the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Agents spied on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as part of a concerted effort to thwart his organizing . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 20, 2003

The Canary in the Data Mine

At the turn of the century just past, mining companies would use a brightly colored bird in the mine shaft to protect the lives of citizens. These canaries were more sensitive to the foul, noxious and deadly but invisible vapors that . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 20, 2003

The All-Important Confidentiality Policy

Technology company's lifeblood depends on the secrecy of its intellectual property. Most companies safeguard sensitive trade secrets with confidentiality agreements--but many of these agreements aren't as comprehensive as they need to be. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 17, 2003

Companies Creating More Chief Privacy Officer Jobs

The chief security officer (CSO) position has matured to the point where the title isn't particularly jarring when you see it on a business card. However, the same probably cannot be said for the chief privacy officer (CPO) job. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 16, 2003

Is the RIAA "hacking you back"?

The RIAA is preparing to infect MP3 files in order to audit and eventually disable file swapping, according to a startling claim by hacker group Gobbles. In a posting to the Bugtraq mailing list, Gobbles himself claims to have offered his . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 14, 2003

Privacy tsar: Data Protection Should Be 'Way Of Life'

Richard Thomas has called for the private sector to punish companies that don't respect customers' personal information. Breaking the government's 'culture of secrecy' while protecting the privacy of UK citizens is one of the key challenges facing the new Information . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 10, 2003

Don't Be An Accidental Spammer

Email "spam" is in the eye of the reader-one person's valued information may be another person's spam. You know your list is truly opt-in, but people are so sensitive these days that you risk being branded as a spammer even if . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 06, 2003

Linux Privacy - Page 55

Navigating the Tails 6.8 Update: What It Means for Security-Minded Users

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