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Mirage: Mitigating <endeca_term>Illicit</endeca_term> Inventorying in a RFID Enabled Retail Environment

Mirage: Mitigating Illicit Inventorying in a RFID Enabled Retail Environment

...deleterious attack on such a system is corporate espionage, where attackers through illicit inventorying infer sales and restocking trends for products. In this paper, the... Read more

9 December, 2010

Rights group criticises EU web filter proposal

European digital rights group EDRi has criticised an EU proposal to block 'illicit contents' via web filtering. The idea to create a 'virtual Schengen border... Read more

4 May, 2011

Europe-wide firewall mooted in Council of the EU

...of the EU wants to propose a Europe-wide firewall to block 'illicit contents' on a continental scale, it has emerged. The proposal was outlined... Read more

29 April, 2011
Usage Control Model for Digital Rights Management in Digital Home Networks

Usage Control Model for Digital Rights Management in Digital Home Networks

The free distribution, unauthorized usage, and illicit sharing of copyrighted digital contents have become a common phenomenon with the... Read more

1 August, 2011
Soundcomber: A Stealthy and Context-Aware Sound Trojan for Smartphones

Soundcomber: A Stealthy and Context-Aware Sound Trojan for Smartphones

...malware with access to on-board sensors, which open new avenues for illicit collection of private information. While existing work shows that such "Sensory malware... Read more

4 March, 2011
Dark Gold: Statistical Properties of Clandestine Networks in Massively Muliplayer Online Games

Dark Gold: Statistical Properties of Clandestine Networks in Massively Muliplayer Online Games

Gold farming is a set of illicit practices for gathering and distributing virtual goods in online games for real... Read more

29 June, 2010
FIRE: FInding Rogue nEtworks

FIRE: FInding Rogue nEtworks

For many years, online criminals have been able to conduct their illicit activities by masquerading behind disreputable Internet Service Providers (ISPs). For example, organizations... Read more

10 June, 2010
Ten computer viruses that changed the world

Ten computer viruses that changed the world

...products and created what was supposed to be a kill switch for illicit copies. But the design was flawed; the anti-copy software could duplicate... Read more

3 August, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Google Drive: Latest player in the great internet paradox

...Megaupload, which is currently closed following a US police action against alleged illicit content sharing. While Dropbox and others are committed to following the law... Read more

24 April, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

Four-strong team builds digital TV revolution

...and legality: although Promise TV is sure that it's no more illicit than a video recorder, it's had a letter from Channel 4... Read more

25 March, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

Bitcoin: Cheat Sheet

...led Bitcoin to gain a reputation as a way to pay for illicit or illegal substances such as drugs. The question of whether Bitcoin itself... Read more

16 September, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

BSA secret agenda: open source saves the world

...Croatia. With perfect holiness and inescapable enforcement, in a world with no illicit copying at all, what would happen is that most of the world... Read more

8 September, 2011

News International sites taken down in LulzSec attack

...before being arrested and bailed on Sunday over alleged phone-hacking and illicit payments to police officers. It has been noted that the password for... Read more

19 July, 2011 by David Meyer
Net neutrality ignores business users

Net neutrality ignores business users

...have required ISPs to cut off connections that had been used for illicit downloads three times, as this would have risked disconnecting businesses.The net... Read more

7 January, 2011 by Nick White

When is a hack not a hack?

...so adept at hammering home terms such as malware, vulnerabilities, rouge code, illicit installation and perhaps even polymorphic code – that before you know it there... Read more

28 June, 2010

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

2 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

2 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

3 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

5 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

7 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

7 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

8 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

10 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

10 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

11 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

12 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

13 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

14 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

15 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

15 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

19 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

21 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

24 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry