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Trade Group Bashes Government Open-Source Bias

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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

Pentagon Drops Plan To Curb Net Anonymity

A Defense Department agency recently considered--and rejected--a far-reaching plan that would sharply curtail online anonymity by tagging e-mail and Web browsing with unique markers for each Internet user. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 22, 2002

CipherTrust Wants You To Fight Spam

E-mail security company CipherTrust wants your spam. The company is calling on surfers of all stripes to help it wage a fight against spam by sending their unsolicited mass e-mail to its new Web site, Spamarchive.org. The idea is to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 22, 2002

Internet Provisions in Homeland Security Bill

Internet providers such as America Online could give the government more information about subscribers and police would gain new Internet wiretap powers under legislation creating the new Department of Homeland Security. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 22, 2002

SpamArchive.org Launched

SpamArchive.org has just been launched. SpamArchive.org is a community resource that provides a database of known spam to be used for testing, developing, and benchmarking anti-spam tools. The goal of this project is to provide a large repository of spam that can be used by researchers and tool developers. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 21, 2002

Wanna See My Personal Data? Pay Up

Companies usually exploit consumers' information for free, but Britain's Chris Downs is devising a way for people to cash in As shoppers rev up for the holiday season, many are turning to online auctioneer eBay for unconventional gifts -- a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 21, 2002

Secret U.S. court OKs electronic spying

A secretive federal court on Monday granted police broad authority to monitor Internet usage, record keystrokes and employ other surveillance methods against terror and espionage suspects. In an unexpected and near-complete victory for law enforcement. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 19, 2002

Slate: Spam is killing e-mail

One-third of the 30 billion e-mails sent worldwide each day are spam. That's 10 billion daily pitches for herbal Viagra, Nigerian scams, and genital-enlarging creams piling up in our inboxes. Neither legislation nor litigation against spammers has stemmed the tide, and they're not going to have much of an effect in the future. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 18, 2002

Comdex: Israel's Barak urges global terrorism database

Intelligence agencies worldwide must create a global database to share information with each other about threats and attacks by terrorist organizations and "rogue despots like Saddam Hussein. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 18, 2002

Judge rules cops' hacker went too far

A federal judge has ruled that law enforcement officials went too far when they tried to use evidence gathered by a known hacker to convict someone of possessing child pornography. The decision, handed down earlier this month, is believed to be the first to say that hacking into an Internet-connected home PC without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 15, 2002

RSA Teams Up with Courion for Identity Management

Encryption and access management software and hardware vendor RSA Security Inc has teamed up with identity management software vendor Courion Corp with a strategic partnership to enable the management of user identities and access privileges across heterogeneous e-business environments. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2002

FTC Cracks Down on Spammers

An FTC-led investigation led to warnings being sent 100 alleged spammers, telling them to stop immedidately. Plus, it identifies the most likely targets. Altogether, the regulators announced they had filed more than 30 enforcement actions and had sent letters to about 100 alleged spammers warning them to cease sending the unwanted and often fraudulent commercial e-mail messages. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2002

For Bulk E-Mailer, Pestering Milions Offers Path to Profit

The sun was setting on Laura Betterly's six-bedroom house as she reviewed a pair of outgoing e-mail messages one last time. Satisfied, she moved her cursor to the "send" icon and clicked. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 13, 2002

Privacy Group Counters P2P Crackdown

The Electronic Privacy Information Center is launching a counterattack against Hollywood's efforts to crack down on student file-swapping. The privacy advocacy group is sending letters to presidents of colleges across the country, asking them to think before they install monitoring . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 07, 2002

When Data Threatens Privacy

What if your refrigerator knew too much? More specifically, what if the company that made your refrigerator knew too much, automatically sucking in data about food purchases you. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 06, 2002

Promise Of P3P Stalls As Backers Regroup

Six months after its recommendation as an Internet standard, a major privacy initiative is entering an awkward adolescence as software heavyweights adopt it and individual Web sites leave it to languish. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 29, 2002

Stop The Spam, Cry Spammers

Spam has become so bad in the US that even advertisers have admitted that restrictions are needed. The Direct Marketing Association (DMA), which once opposed any federal anti-spam legislation, says it will now lobby for federal and state laws to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 25, 2002

Perspective: Privacy lessons from Europe

Pushed by supporters as a model for the U.S., Europe's tough Internet privacy regulations have come under fire--from surprising sources. The recent European Union-sponsored Data Protection Conference on privacy heard reports from businesses, media outlets, trade unions and four EU nations . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2002

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