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Cloaking devices designed for wary Web shoppers

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The Internet's first anonymous shopping tools are going live this fall. These are various virtual masks that cloak people's credit-card numbers -- and, in some cases, their real names and addresses -- from the prying eyes of online merchants. At the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 06, 2000

Clinton, GOP Compromise On Net Filtering

Although the government spending bill carrying a clause requiring Internet filtering on school and library computers that are federally funded is wrapped up in partisan melees, the White House and Republican lawmakers appear to have reached common ground on the filtering . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 02, 2000

Computer forensics the latest ploy to monitor employees

Moving beyond merely monitoring employees' Internet use, many of the nation's largest companies are quietly assembling teams of computer investigators who specialize in covertly copying employees' hard drives and combing them for evidence of workplace wrongdoing. These high-tech investigators employ tools . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 31, 2000

Security group alleges breach in bank's Web site

Customer credit card numbers of Bank One Online are at risk of exposure to malicious hackers, an Internet security group charged Tuesday. The Web site of the fourth-largest U.S. bank lets customers in most cities check their accounts by entering a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 25, 2000

Net Privacy Bill Called 'Trojan Horse'

The legislation began as an effort to protect people like Amy Boyer, a New Hampshire woman who was slain by a man who tracked her down after buying her Social Security number on the Internet.In May, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) proposed . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 25, 2000

Employers can read your email from today

Starting today employers can read workers' email without their consent, but heavyweights including the IoD want changes From Tuesday, new regulations give employers the power to eavesdrop on the email communications of their staff, a legal shift . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2000

Zero-Knowledge open sources Freedom

Privacy technology firm Zero-Knowledge Systems announced that it had released the code to the Linux version of its privacy software, Freedom 2.0, Monday. Freedom is a client for a network that allows users to browse anonymously. Not even . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2000

Putting privacy in perspective

There's a lot of sound and fury these days about privacy and the Net -- about how your privacy is going to be seriously compromised soon, if it's not already; about how innovations in cell phones and global positioning satellite systems . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2000

FBI Still Hunting With Carnivore

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is still developing its Carnivore Internet surveillance tool, according to FBI documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The FBI is now creating "Enhanced Carnivore" under a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2000

Mark of Zoro

J. Oquendo contributes: "With the inception of the F.B.I.'s Carnivore, many people have overlooked the fact the C.I.A. is unleashing a tool which makes Carnivore a lightweight contender on the security intervention scene." The article says "watch for more . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2000

Carnivore: The truth is worse than you thought

Carnivore, the FBI's controversial email snooping program, is part of covert surveillance triad known inside the bureau as the "DragonWare Suite", according to recently declassified documents. The documents also outline how the DragonWare Suite is more than . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2000

Privacy Treaty a Global Invasion?

WASHINGTON -- Civil liberty groups are vexed over a proposed treaty that would grant more surveillance powers to U.S. and European police agencies, and expand copyright crimes. Thirty groups -- from North America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe -- said . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2000

Bush, Gore Differ On Consumer Privacy Protection

Both major presidential candidates believe that more must be done to protect Internet privacy, but they differ on exactly what should be done, their campaign representatives said Monday. Privacy hasn't been an issue in the presidential debates, despite surveys showing consumers . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2000

EarthLink flaw exposes domains

A one-two punch of poor security left up to 81,000 domains hosted by Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. open to defacement and exploitation for at least a week, ZDNet News learned on Tuesday. The vulnerability resulted from a recently discovered flaw . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 17, 2000

Mitnick backs federal DNA database

Should the Government establish a central database that uses biometric identifiers such as DNA to make sure you're who you say you are? Hacker Kevin Mitnick thinks so. "I think the government has to establish some sort of central database that . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 16, 2000

FBI's Carnivore Just the First Step in Internet Surveillance

The FBI says its controversial Carnivore system is just "the tip of the iceberg" when it comes to Internet surveillance because an even sharper-toothed information chomper is now in development. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 16, 2000

Privacy expert monitors issue with a keen eye

Richard Smith has dedicated himself to demanding high security and privacy standards of Internet companies. A veteran computer programmer, Smith knows how information collected through technology can be manipulated in ways the developer never intended. Currently the chief technology officer at . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2000

Security Breach at Buy.com

A security hole on buy.com's website exposed the personal information of customers who returned products to the company. For several hours on Thursday, the buy.com website allowed determined visitors to peruse the names, addresses, and phone numbers of customers. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2000

`Spyware' Reveals Where You Go on the Internet

It might be called "The Spy Who Came in from the Code," and the latest Internet privacy flap would surely give novelist John le Carre a run for his plotline. In recent months, a new breed of advertisement-laden software has drawn . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 12, 2000

Congress Sets Net Privacy Standards

Lawmakers supportive of Internet privacy laws said Wednesday they would take an issue-by-issue approach next year rather than push for sweeping legislation. They also said the government should set higher standards of privacy for its Web sites. Lawmakers testifying at . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 12, 2000

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