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Brown Accused Of Deception Over ID Cards
News But Brown's perceived dithering in his commitment to the scheme by some MPs has prompted accusations from anti-ID card pressure group No2ID of "deception" and "scandalous" behaviour. No2ID's national co-ordinator Phil Booth said in a statement...
[January 11, 2008, 7:51]
Honey Pots And Honey Nets - Security Through Deception
White Papers What makes this security tool different is that Honey Pots and Honeynets are digital network bait, and through deception, they are designed to actually attract intruders. Honey Pots are fake computer systems, setup as a "decoy", that are used to...
[February 21, 2005, 23:00]
A Note On The Role Of Deception In Information Protection
White Papers This paper concentrates on the role of deception in information protection, and as such, its main focus is on addressing different perspectives on deception. We begin by examining the historical use of deception for information protection in more...
[February 1, 2004, 23:00]
How To Outsmart The Silver-tongued Hacker
News Most people would refer to this as "lying", "trickery", or "deception", but security people prefer to use the term "social engineering". To help you understand the new face of deception, here are some of the new ways that hackers are manipulating...
[April 28, 2003, 16:50]
Time Computers Denies Tales Of Woe
Talkback In both companies the parallels and similarities in the manner both companies went into administration and the strategies of deception employed to deliberately mislead employees and consumers are almost carbon copies.
[July 28, 2005, 3:15]
Gmail Threatened By UK Lawsuit
Talkback That is why it is said that in a passing off action, the plaintiffs right is against the conduct of the defendant, which leads to or is intended or calculated to lead to deception. Passing off is said to be a species of unfair trade competition or...
[September 16, 2005, 19:39]
Google: Semantic Web Must Overcome Incompetence
News The third problem is one of deception. Berners-Lee agreed with Norvig that deception on the Internet is a problem, but he argued that part of the Semantic Web is about identifying the originator of information, and identifying why the information...
[July 19, 2006, 10:05]
Hackers Attack EBay Accounts
Talkback Pursglove has simply mastered the art of deception. Mr. In my personal experience and others I have found that about 5% of all auctions end in some sort of fraud, whether it comes to getting stiffed completely, or getting defrauded by misleading...
[November 11, 2003, 8:39]
Microsoft Faces Lawsuit Over Vista Branding
Talkback The intent was an obvious deception to sell more product. It would be a small price to list the capabilities of the machine on the VISTA label. I have been in retail outlets and all the machines say are" VISTA ready".
[April 9, 2007, 14:55]
A Fuzzy Model For Reasoning About Reputation In Web Services
White Papers When there are no mechanisms in place to detect collusion and deception, combining user testimonies as such to form a provider's reputation may not give an accurate assessment, especially if the context of the ratings is not known.
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
Linux Not Too Cool For School
Talkback Open Office can save in Word format; I've been palming people off with OO-generated Word documents for years, and nobody's ever spotted my cunning deception. So your kid can do her stuff on her Linux computer and the teachers won't know any different.
[February 19, 2008, 13:48]
Concern Grows About Bulldog's Broadband Service
Talkback In my book that's obtaining money by deception. They are atrocious.inept to the point of fraudulent - they know they cannot offer the service but they still advertise and take orders. I would happily join a US style class action against them.
[February 14, 2006, 14:30]
Cognitive Hacking And Intelligence And Security Informatics
White Papers It is argued that because misinformation and deception play a much more significant role in intelligence and security informatics than in other informatics disciplines such as science, medicine, and the law, a new science of intelligence and...
[February 15, 2005, 23:00]
Mitnick Calls For Hackers' War Stories
News Famed hacker and master social engineer Kevin Mitnick has been commissioned to write a new book following the success of his first text The Art of Deception. The new book, tentatively titled The Art of Intrusion will tell the stories of real hacks...
[December 19, 2003, 9:40]
Ebay Software Pirate Faces Sentence At The Old Bailey
News A Pakistani student will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday after pleading guilty to charges that include possessing and selling counterfeit computer programs and dishonestly obtaining money by deception.
[July 4, 2003, 10:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The situation is a mixture of reason and deception: yes, BT is reasonable to try and manage its bandwidth; no, it's deceptive to not tell people that when they sign up. Monday 8/10/2001 Embattled BT is getting slightly more exposure than it might...
[October 15, 2001, 19:00]
Teenager Detained For EBay Fraud
News He had previously admitted 21 counts of obtaining property by deception over a 13 month period. A teenager who used Internet auction site eBay to defraud over one hundred people was sentenced to twelve months detention and training on Wednesday.
[May 4, 2005, 13:55]
Time Crisis: Workers And Customers Share Woes
Talkback Some customers of ours have been waiting over 4 months to get their Plasma TV's they ordered from us, if the company were taking money off people then and up until now, for plasma's they new they could never deliver there has to be some sort of...
[July 28, 2005, 11:52]
Medical Fears May Hamper Acceptance Of Biometrics
Talkback Its almost as if they do not see their greatest vulnerability - that region of space in which the transition is made between man and machine, a place where deception of machine can run rife. One cannot help but love the proponents of biometrics.
[October 31, 2003, 18:36]
EBay Con Artists Convicted
News Nicolae Cretanu, 30, and his wife Adriana, 23 pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obtain property by deception and money laundering. Three people who cheated 3,000 eBay customers out of thousands of pounds have been jailed.
[October 31, 2005, 10:20]
