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Sharp increase in spyware Web sites
News You need your firewall, you need antivirus protection at the server," he said. In the second quarter of 2005, Webroot's Enterprise SpyAudit application found at least one form of 'unwanted program' in 80 percent of PCs it scanned.
[August 25, 2005, 11:05]
New flare-up in battle over e-books
News If publishers can lock onto the right protection scheme, such page-on-demand publishing could circumvent students, publishers and others "giving Xerox machines their revenues" by copying pages and sections of books and articles for personal use...
[November 7, 2000, 9:48]
Will Longhorn be worth the pain?
News And one compelling reason to upgrade, he believes, is Longhorn's new Active Protection feature, which recognises the presence of viruses or worms by their behavioural characteristics rather than their signatures and is also aware of whether a...
[March 18, 2005, 16:25]
Privacy experts slam snooping code of practice
News Lawyers disagree, saying that "proportionality" is a reasonable legal concept within the Data Protection Act 1998. Privacy advocates are frustrated that authorisation warrants escape any form of judicial scrutiny, but instead are based on a...
[August 15, 2001, 16:40]
Exclusive: Government will not prioritise paedophile cases
News Child protection units are unconvinced by the government's commitment to tackle paedophile crime on the Internet, and are sceptical about the priority that the so-called "cybersquad" will give to paedophile units.
[February 12, 2001, 11:52]
E-male looks for love
News Businesses are now facing a difficult choice -- either allowing employees freedom of email speech and risking libel actions or complaints, or breaking Data Protection principles by spying on what their employees are writing.
[August 17, 2001, 17:00]
IM users hit by widespread 'social hack'
News Hackers are using automated tools to send messages to random IM and IRC users, offering them a piece of software they might want or need, such as antivirus protection, improved music downloads or pornography, according to an advisory posted on...
[March 20, 2002, 12:04]
Ballmer and Gates are quitters, says Sun boss
News Despite claiming that his company had done more than any other vendor to support Linux, McNealy, referring to the continuing lawsuit between SCO and IBM, warned that Linux users would have little protection if SCO was successful.
[August 1, 2003, 11:15]
How to Google the Wright patent
News Patents are meant to give an inventor legal protection for their innovations, in return for sharing the details of their work with the world. A European directive that could have led to the widespread patenting of software was rejected last year...
[December 14, 2006, 16:18]
Super-regulator to shake up media
News Speaking in the interest of consumers, the non-governmental Consumers Association is welcoming the creation of Ofcom, but is asking for emphasis to be placed on delivering customer protection. The existing medley of regulators -- Oftel, the...
[December 12, 2000, 16:11]
Microsoft on Trial: Microsoft lawyers grill Netscape CEO
News Warden pressed Barksdale again, asking him if the DoJ assault on Microsoft was considered an opportunity for Netscape, to which Barksdale responded, "I have always regarded it as more of a protection of an opportunity that we already had.
[October 21, 1998, 9:30]
Asia-Domains: Sunrise Period extended till Jan 31, 2008
Talkback SR2c: Extended Protection for trademark owners to protect their brands beyond the term itself but also domain names that are relevant to their lines of businesses: e.g. SR3 is also expanded for standard Romanized form of Entity Names and Registered...
[January 14, 2008, 19:01]
Special report: Who pays for recycling hardware?
News Most of these things are still sitting on shelves or in warehouses," said Jeffrey Tumarkin, team leader at the Environmental Protection Agency's WasteWise program, which has some 1,100 participants, from Anheuser Busch and Eastman Kodak to corner...
[June 18, 2001, 14:03]
Students condemn ID cards
News She said the two fingerprints and photograph stored on the card would provide greater protection against ID theft and help fight illegal working, immigration abuse and serious crime. The launch of the site coincides with the publishing of survey...
[July 10, 2008, 9:30]
2009 Mobile Security Outlook: The Year of Mass Attack Mobile Viruses
Blog If you wouldn’t trust your computer to run without a digital security solution then the time is here to extend that same level of protection to your mobile handset. Mobile malware is a form of digital security that has been rapidly growing in...
[January 2, 2009, 21:47]
An interesting sales tactic
Blog Under the DMCA, mere avoidance of an effective copyright protection solution is a violation of the act. Every form of digital system capable of handling any sort of content, from the Web to radio hams bashing away at their morse code, will need to...
[May 11, 2007, 9:43]
PDA encryption options
News Although most PDAs offer password protection, passwords alone aren't always enough. Those who need a little more protection should consider movianCrypt or JAWZDataGator. Instead, they insist that you fill out a form and wait for a salesperson to call.
[July 18, 2002, 10:50]
Evolving firewalls
News One of the simplest and least expensive forms of firewall protection is known as static packet filtering. Known as application proxy or gateway firewalls, this approach to protection is significantly different from packet filters and stateful...
[August 13, 2002, 12:52]
Industry unites against IM spam
News And now IMLogic has released version 7.0 of its IM Manager software, which it says is the first instant-messaging management solution to be integrated with the IMLogic Threat Center for automatic real-time threat protection.
[February 22, 2005, 7:55]
Police maintain uneasy truce with cybervigilantes
News Chris Atkinson, partnerships liaison officer for the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), also warned against mob rule on the internet — especially naming and shaming suspected scammers.
[January 17, 2007, 14:37]
