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News Burst: Is Microsoft a collaborator?
News The French intelligence agency, Strategic Affairs Delegation (DAS), suspects that Microsoft has collaborated with US security agents to develop software for spying on global communications, according to press reports.
[February 22, 2000, 14:16]
Judge grants restraining order against HP accuser
News HP was granted a temporary restraining order on Thursday against a former executive who has accused the company in court documents of spying on rival Dell. Karl Kamb Jr, who is being sued by HP for allegedly pilfering company trade secrets, was...
[January 26, 2007, 8:06]
US Privacy group sues NSA over spy net
News Americans could learn more about the degree to which the secretive National Security Agency -- the government body charged with cracking codes and protecting critical information -- has been spying on U.S.citizens, if a suit filed on Friday by the...
[December 6, 1999, 9:25]
Privacy group sues NSA over spy net
News The public could learn more about the degree to which the secretive National Security Agency -- the government body charged with cracking codes and protecting critical information -- has been spying on US citizens, if a suit filed on Friday by the...
[December 6, 1999, 10:12]
Software licence tied to human rights
News Software distributed under an "enhanced source" licence released this week will be legally prohibited from censoring or spying on users. Move over, free software. Step aside, today's open-source licences.
[November 28, 2002, 8:22]
Echelon: Is anyone bothered?
News ZDNet Germany's News Editor Susanne Rieger talks to surveillance expert, Erich Schmidt-Eenboom about German concerns, including the charge that Britain is spying on her European neighbour. Like France, Germany is concerned that Echelon bases are...
[June 30, 2000, 15:25]
South Korea: High-tech hothouse
News With 13 million of the country's 48 million citizens living in the high-rise forests of this dense metropolis, people are constantly spying on what their neighbours or fellow subway commuters are buying.
[June 24, 2004, 10:05]
France attacks Britain over Echelon
News Find out who's spying on you and how they're doing it in our exclusive Echelon News Special. A French parliamentary enquiry has criticised Britain for its involvement in the Echelon electronic surveillance system, which it denounced as a threat to...
[October 13, 2000, 10:54]
Couple object to AOL search for spammer's gold
News In May 2005, AOL won a $12.8m lawsuit against Davis Wolfgang Hawke and two other men who AOL says made millions by targeting AOL members with spam offers for everything from penile implants and spying software to diet pills, according to court...
[August 21, 2006, 8:55]
Monitoring software: A productivity booster?
News According to Doug Fowler, president of SpectorSoft Corporation, it seems that all the uproar about monitoring software and images of the boss spying over your shoulder is much ado about nothing. If you deploy monitoring software in your company...
[April 15, 2004, 17:20]
SEC to broaden HP inquiry
Talkback Hunsaker still went ahead and fed faked documents and tried spying on reporters like CNET's Dawn Kwamoto http://www.iwantmyess.com/? Faking, changing, altering company documents all bad. American companies should have learned that in this post...
[September 22, 2006, 19:41]
Distributed DoS hacker sentenced in Germany
News The youth, who has not been named but uses the handle "Mixter," was reportedly found guilty by a court in Hannover of gaining unauthorised access to the computer systems of a number of companies and "spying on data" in 1998.
[April 4, 2000, 10:06]
Public targeted by 1,500 monitoring bids per day
News It cannot be a justified response to the problems we face in this country that the state is spying on half-a-million people a year," said Huhne in a statement. Police, local councils and other UK public authorities made more than half-a-million...
[August 10, 2009, 16:19]
US tech worker arrested in city network hijack
News He is accused of electronically spying on his supervisors and their attempt to fire him, according to authorities. A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city's computer network...
[July 16, 2008, 8:46]
Carry On Crashing: Windows 7 starts messing about
Blog Just before this, I had been watching Carry On Spying on DVD - reaching the point where Kenneth Williams (in a fez) and Charles Hawtrey (as Beau Geste) were about to rush in on Barbara Windsor and Bernard Cribbins (both in belly-dancing outfits...
[October 27, 2009, 11:20]
End of the road for Win 98 support
Talkback Who wants to have microsoft spying on them - so why call XP et al an upgrade on Win98? The issue isn't microsoft, but whether anti-virus, anti-spy-ware, firewall makers, Opera and Firefox, and hardware makers, continue to support Win98.
[July 14, 2006, 12:56]
Anti-P2P software 'spies' on user data
News On Wednesday, the company said it had given up on part of its network-spying technology and had instead teamed up with an established network-security company. An ambitious software project for blocking copyrighted song-swapping over peer-to-peer...
[September 11, 2003, 10:45]
Update: America uses Echelon to spy on Britain
News That America is spying on British businesses using Echelon is ironic: Britain and America are the two principal members of the UK/USA alliance which runs Echelon, a part of the global surveillance system.
[July 3, 2000, 13:10]
Experts: Press threatened by cybersnooping
News At a forum entitled Living with RIP -- A Journalists Guide to Surviving Cyberregulation, held at the ICA next month, experts in computer privacy will school Internet journalists on how to protect themselves and their sources from the threat of...
[October 5, 2000, 14:29]
Special Report: Cyber Wars - info war in the US
News Traditional restrictions on spying may go by the wayside on the Net From Cold War to cyber war? It's entirely possible the battles of the future may well be fought on the Internet. Will Rodger examines the issues on the table in this five part...
[October 6, 1998, 16:36]
