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The spam situation is rapidly deteriorating. The percentage of inbound SMTP traffic classified as spam can be as high as 40 percent for some organizations. With no end in sight to rising spam volume, Meta Group believes companies must be . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 06, 2003

Online Privacy Is Dead - What Now?

The bad news is no secret, but it bears repeating: If you have bought anything online in the past several years, your personal information Latest News about personal information, including your home address and credit card number, is probably accessible via . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 02, 2003

The Spam Problem: Moving Beyond RBLs

I am not a spammer and never have been. I do not support spammers and never have done so. I believe that spam is a first-class annoyance and ought to be stopped somehow. One of my servers is listed on an . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 31, 2002

Year in Privacy: Citizens Lose

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin wrote those words over 200 years ago, and, as we reach the end of 2002, the state of important liberties . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 31, 2002

The Briscoe Syndrome

Watching the TV drama Law & Order, Detective Briscoe confronts the manager of a seedy Times Square hotel, demanding records of the suspect in room 206. The manager, behind a wall of bulletproof glass and wearing a stained T-shirt, tells the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 30, 2002

Yes, You Are Being Watched

If you're feeling fenced in some day, you may decide to take a trip to your favorite gambling mecca, where anything goes. Before you leave, you may want to tell your friends, and while you're at it, let them know what you've been doing lately. Depending on where you are, and whether what you do sounds suspicious, the government may read that e-mail.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 29, 2002

A Peek at History, Piracy-Free

In a move that started as a project to save money on film storage, British Pathe has put more than 3,500 hours of its old newsreels online, creating what it says is the largest online digital news archive. The move . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 27, 2002

Yahoo privacy worries

Looks like what little privacy we enjoy online is about to dwindle even further. Ho, ho, ho, boys and girls. Yahoo's announcement this week that it plans to acquire search-engine powerhouse Inktomi for $235 million raises all sorts of troubling . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 26, 2002

Gilmore Commission Weighs Privacy vs. Homeland Security

Former Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore III acknowledged that the idea makes him nervous, but the commission that he leads to assess the domestic response to terrorism recommended to the president and Congress that a new intelligence agency be formed to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 20, 2002

California Leads Way on ID Theft Legislation

Businesses often fail to disclose security breaches to police, let alone to the public, out of fear they will damage their reputation and open themselves to lawsuits. But Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) is circulating a draft bill that would change that . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 16, 2002

Spam Saturation Hits 40 Percent

In the days before Christmas the amount of spam e-mail being sent and received looks set to soar as marketing machines and e-greetings firms go into seasonal overdrive. As well as being inundated with the perennial spam emails about scams . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 13, 2002

Spammer Gets Junk Mailed

A US bulk emailer is threatening legal action after so-called "anti-spammers" signed him up for lots of junk mail. Detroit Free Press tech columnist Mike Wendland reported last week that Alan Ralsky is now experiencing what it likes to be . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 11, 2002

Your Right To Remain Anonymous Is Eroding

Is there a constitutional right to communicate with others anonymously? Though the United States has a distinguished tradition of anonymous (and pseudonymous) publication -- the Federalist Papers, written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison but published under the pseudonym Publius being . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 10, 2002

Report: Spam not a problem at work

Contrary to popular belief, the majority of American office workers aren't overwhelmed with unsolicited "spam" e-mail, and most consider e-mail very valuable in helping them do their jobs, a new study shows. More than 60 percent of people employed in the U.S. have Internet access at work and virtually all of those use e-mail on the job. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 08, 2002

Manifestation of Assent

There's been an interesting academic argument going around in certain legal and open source circles about how to make sure that our software licenses are enforceable. Most open source licenses you'll find at https://opensource.org/ and all proprietary software licenses you'll . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 06, 2002

Identity Theft More Often an Inside Job

You can take all the steps you want to protect yourself against identity theft: Guard your wallet, shred your personal financial papers before throwing them in the trash, monitor your credit reports. But no matter how careful you are, you may not be able to avoid having your identity assumed by someone who wants to go on a buying spree, using your credit card, bank account, Social Security number or other personal data. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 04, 2002

Court Test for US Digital Piracy Law

The first legal test of a controversial law designed to prevent digital piracy is starting in the US. After more than a year of courtroom skirmishes, jury selection is scheduled to begin in San Jose, California, in the trial of the Moscow-based software company ElcomSoft. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 03, 2002

Trade Group Bashes Government Open-Source Bias

The Initiative for Software Choice, a software industry trade group whose members include Microsoft, Intel and Cisco, has advised the U.S. Department of Defense not to adhere to a policy that promotes open source software at the expense of proprietary software. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 02, 2002

IT manager ethics: From piracy to privacy

Perhaps one of the most common unethical requests IT professionals face is to install, maintain, or at least overlook, unlicensed software. In a report released in June 2002, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) reported that 40 percent of software worldwide . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 28, 2002

Where the Heck is All This Spam Coming From?

The growth of the spam problem in 2002 has been exponential. Companies that sell spam filtering software say currently the percentage of email that is spam could be 20%, 33%, or even up to 50%, compared to less than 10% a year ago. While the rise in spam is easy to notice, it is hard to quantify. Spam is by definition "unsolicited commercial email", and often. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 25, 2002

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