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Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court
News What seems to be an embarrassing blunder by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in its hunt for online pirates has prompted Linux Australia to contact its legal representatives and warn of a possible breach of Australian law.
[September 20, 2004, 9:40]
ISS products targeted by Witty worm
News The worm, dubbed Witty.A, was designed to breach a security hole in the company's widely used firewall product line-ups such as its BlackICE and RealSecure software series. Network security company ISS is likely to face embarrassing questions from...
[March 22, 2004, 9:05]
EC launches antitrust probe against Qualcomm
News The European Commission announced the investigation on Monday over an "alleged breach of EC Treaty rules on abuse of a dominant market position" by Qualcomm. Following its recent victory over Microsoft, the European Commission has now turned its...
[October 2, 2007, 8:46]
Debian attacker may have used new exploit
News Initial investigations of the security breach, which occurred on 19 November, indicate that the attacker was able to gain full control of Debian servers after logging on via unprivileged accounts, known as privilege escalation, according to James...
[November 28, 2003, 14:05]
News Burst: Hotmail debacle reopens encryption debate
News Leo Scheiner, CEO of e-commerce firm GlobalMarket, reckons the fall-out from Monday's Hotmail breach will force people to use encrypted email in the near future. Confidence in Web based email took a severe knock Tuesday with one industry...
[August 31, 1999, 10:18]
Oracle Special: Searching for solutions
News The most common types of legal action are breach-of-contract lawsuits, aimed at software manufacturers that promised more than they delivered, and shareholder suits leveled at companies accused of misleading investors about their revenues.
[July 2, 2001, 13:43]
The seven other areas you need to be concerned about in 2009.
Talkback One was Cloud Computing, the others are: Virtualization, Outsourcing, Cybercrime and Cyber Threats, Data Breach, particularly in the area of identity theft, Mobility and Mobile Platforms, Peer to Peer File Sharing and Web 2.0.
[December 10, 2008, 14:07]
Energy industry seen as prime cyberattack target
News The energy industry is also the most vulnerable to cyberattacks and would have the most detrimental breach, while the financial sector is the best prepared in the case of a cyberattack, according to a survey sponsored by security firm Secure...
[November 12, 2008, 11:14]
Stop intruders exploiting applications
News Designing your applications to prevent a system-level security breach is significantly different from preventing security vulnerabilities at the application level. Designing for application security is one thing; keeping someone out of your...
[February 9, 2004, 9:45]
RSA: Vendor liability may stifle innovation
News Art Coviello, RSA's president, warns of the consequences of making vendors liable for the security of their products, calling instead for self regulation, and discusses whether encryption is always right for businesses, as well as the need for a...
[October 30, 2007, 15:40]
NHS to allow opt-outs from database
Talkback I would regard sharing this clinical information as a breach of confidence. I am a General Practitioner. I wholly disagree with the national database concept. I will refuse to share clinical data held on my system with any other database, including...
[February 8, 2005, 23:18]
Should companies care about privacy breaches?
Talkback If 'encryption' is really such a total solution for everything then I'm sure your 'encryption' supplier wouldn't mind signing a little contract that states then whenever your administration reveals an 'encryption' breach the 'encryption' supplier...
[June 30, 2006, 22:26]
Apple faces US lawsuit over iPhone 3G glitches
News In a 10-page complaint filed on Tuesday in the US District Court for Northern Alabama, Birmingham resident Jessica Alena Smith charged Apple with breach of express and implied warranty and unjust enrichment.
[August 21, 2008, 12:35]
Egg accidentally mails out credit card details
News Egg, a division of Prudential, has confessed to this blunder but claims that it does not represent a breach of its computer security measures. Online banking service Egg has admitted sending at least one of its customers their personal credit card...
[November 18, 1999, 16:30]
Security loses to holiday rush
News According to Gary Lynch, a partner at Ernst & Young, regulatory and legal pressures -- not the immediate economic consequences of a breach -- are driving security purchases and implementations. The pressure to be up and running this holiday season...
[January 3, 2000, 5:57]
Google blogger out
Talkback While I have simpathy with 'The Queen Of The Sky' who didn't comment on her employer, I consider the publishing of specific comments about one's work place and employer, particularly if these are personal or derogatory, to be quite wrong and a...
[February 9, 2005, 10:19]
Civil liberties groups condemn Big Brother proposals
News The group says giving agencies access to all citizens' communications would be a breach of the Human Rights Act and the Data Protection Act. Britain risks being hauled in front of the European Court of Human Rights if recommendations to give law...
[December 4, 2000, 8:40]
RIP Bill comes under fresh attack
News The report states that proposed decryption powers included within the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill are in breach of human rights laws because of a recommendation that law enforcers have the power to imprison anyone who does not...
[March 22, 2000, 11:50]
Newham CIO sheds light on Microsoft relationship
Blog Comment This must also surely breach EU competition laws applying to local government procurement. (quote) Signatories of the MoU, which included Steel, agreed to advocate the relationship between Microsoft and Newham.unquote)
[March 5, 2009, 8:20]
European 'internet freedom' law agreed
News The Telecoms Reform Package is a raft of new laws that tackle issues ranging from data-breach notification to faster number porting. Europe is set to get a major overhaul of its telecoms regulation, after the European Parliament and Council of...
[November 5, 2009, 12:11]
