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Attorney general complains about Net anonymity

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Online anonymity makes it more difficult for law enforcement to successfully catch and prosecute Internet-based criminals, and the U.S. government needs more help from the business community to overcome the unique challenges that online crime presents, Attorney General John Ashcroft said. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 24, 2001

Ex-KGB Expert Unveils New Computer Shield

The system promises to protect networks by constantly rotating their IP addresses, making them a moving target for would-be hackers. The one-time head of the KGB's overseas code-scrambling unit and an ex-director of the CIA have teamed up to develop what . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 23, 2001

Europe moves to monitor all Internet traffic

Under a draft proposal from the European Commission, backed by police, all emails and other Internet traffic would be logged and kept for up to seven years. European Home Office officials are supporting demands from law enforcement . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 21, 2001

Hackers' plan to dodge netwatchers

A group of hackers has alarmed law enforcement agencies with plans for a browser that could make it impossible to control the material people have access to on the world wide web. The US-based "ethical" hacking group, Cult of the Dead . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 14, 2001

Cost of privacy legislation in "tens of billions"

Web businesses would be forced to shell out as much as $100,000 apiece in compliance costs if Congress passes online privacy legislation mandating consumer access and enforcement provisions, according to a new study. Privacy advocates say the study erroneously assumes most . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 09, 2001

Privacy group questions Bush administration's commitment to privacy

An Internet privacy group has filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests at five executive branch agencies in a bid to gauge the Bush administration's commitment on a range of privacy protection issues during its first 100 days in office. In . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 02, 2001

Hackers to release anti-censorship tool

Cult of the Dead Cow plans to launch a peer-to-peer tool at this summer's Defcon to fight government censorship of the Web. A computer hacking group best known for creating tools for hijacking computer systems is turning its . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 30, 2001

Court Ruling A Boon For Online Anonymity

The value of the Internet as a forum for citizens to share controversial or unpopular views safe from the threat of persecution would be seriously undermined if courts compromised the right of Internet users to use aliases, Caplan said. "It . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 24, 2001

Online privacy leaders meet with Ashcroft

Privacy advocates met with Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday to express their concerns about how law enforcement agencies monitor citizens. They the FBI would stop its "Carnivore" e-mail surveillance system.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 20, 2001

Web Bugs Track Users, Extract Information

Piracy advocates claim that the use of sophisticated Web bug tracking devices "has grown dramatically" over the past year. More than 30 per cent of Web pages sampled during last year's Christmas season contained new generations of Web bugs that the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 16, 2001

ACLU ads warn of "massive" government cyber-snooping

Ratcheting up its attack on government cyber-surveillance efforts, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is launching a print and Internet advertising campaign that warns of "massive" government monitoring efforts. In a full-page ad set to debut later this month in issues . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 12, 2001

Privacy activists plan assault on Eschelon, Carnivore

Echelon, the international spy network allegedly set up to listen in on civilians' electronic communications, will get some of its most public exposure to date this weekend, when a prominent U.S. civil rights group runs a full-page advertisement in the New . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 12, 2001

Transatlantic Privacy War Heats Up

The transatlantic tug of war over privacy standards notched up as the Bush administration complained to the European Union about the burden its rules will put on U.S. financial institutions.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 28, 2001

Consumers face digital TV privacy threat

Interactive TV is taking off - but the price may be more than some bargained for. Web users have grown used to the idea that companies collect information about their online habits as a price for providing them . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 28, 2001

EC says U.S. privacy rules concerns are baseless

A European commission official Tuesday termed as "unfounded" U.S. government concerns over privacy rules being considered by the EC. The rules could affect American financial services firms doing business in Europe, in particular their data gathering and transmission activities. "They expressed . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 28, 2001

'TiVo is watching you', alleges privacy group

Hi-tech TV recording service TiVo has been attacked by a leading US privacy group. The Privacy Foundation claims TiVo covertly collects information about users' habits, despite promising not to do so. TiVo has denied the allegation, saying any data recorded is . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 27, 2001

FBI to require lie detector tests for its systems administrators

The FBI last week quietly expanded its use of the polygraph to cover systems administrators and all other employees with access to sensitive computer networks and databases, marking the first time that IT specialists in the government have been singled out . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 27, 2001

Privacy advocates make plea to Echelon committee

Privacy organisation Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties has submitted its objections to Internet surveillance ahead of a meeting in the European Parliament today. A European parliamentary committee is due to discuss the controversial global surveillance system Echelon and the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 22, 2001

Your E-Hancock Can Be Forged

A Czech information security firm has found a flaw in Pretty Good Privacy that permits digital signatures to be forged in some situations. Phil Zimmermann, the PGP inventor who's now the director of the OpenPGP Consortium, said on Wednesday that he . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 21, 2001

Microsoft tried to defuse privacy and security concerns

Microsoft officials today tried to defuse privacy and security concerns about its new .Net Internet strategy by saying the new technology would let computer users control how much personal information they make available for commercial use. Questions about the privacy and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 21, 2001

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