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VoIP could provoke 'electronic Pearl Harbour'
News An electronic Pearl Harbour-type event will happen in 2006 or 2007. The head of information security for the Royal Mail has warned that voice-over-IP (VoIP) applications will expose companies to hackers and malicious code if not implemented correctly.
[March 17, 2005, 17:20]
Troubled waters in Safe Harbour
News A group representing consumers in the US and Europe said the "Safe Harbour" privacy provision between the European Union and the US government doesn't go far enough in protecting the rights of the citizens of either region.
[March 31, 2000, 9:16]
A Year Ago: A year after Pearl Harbour, MS goes for Netscape's throat
News A year after Microsoft's infamous 'Pearl Harbour' attack on Netscape, Bill Gates's firm is presenting a series of initiatives that will make it an even more fearsome presence on the Internet. The Redmond, Washington firm yesterday announced free...
[December 11, 1997, 7:00]
FBI warns of 'Pearl Harbour' hack attack on Net
News A top FBI official warned in a briefing before a congressional committee on Tuesday that "the electronic equivalent of a Pearl Harbour or an Oklahoma City" is on tap if the government fails to take every precaution, including collecting...
[March 26, 1998, 12:35]
A year after Pearl Harbour, MS goes for Netscape's throat
News The Redmond, Washington firm yesterday announced free availability of a Windows 3.1 version of Internet Explorer 3.0. In a sly dig at its arch-rival, Microsoft product manager for the Internet platform and tools division Martin Gregory said: "It's...
[December 11, 1996, 17:05]
Sydney to bridge harbour with Wi-Fi ferries
News The NSW State Transit Authority is considering installing wireless broadband access on its fleet of Sydney ferries, turning them into mobile wireless hot spots, according to Personal Broadband Australia marketing director, John Filmer.
[September 21, 2004, 9:55]
Cyberterror? Don't make me laugh
News How do you keep a concept like our perennially impending "Electronic Pearl Harbour" fresh and exciting a decade after its introduction? It's not a matter of if America has an electronic Pearl Harbour.
[October 14, 1999, 11:04]
Keep Internet out of UN control, says US
Talkback Picture a ship moving from one harbour to some other overseas harbour. I think the Internet is better compared with international waters then some national airspace and should be governed as such. Now under which rules, regulations, customs, laws...
[October 20, 2005, 23:24]
Groups take EU privacy fight public
News Commerce Department's recent "safe harbour" proposal doesn't go far enough to protect Internet users' data privacy. We do not feel that the safe harbour proposal provides adequate enforcement to safeguard the interests of European citizens," said...
[April 29, 1999, 14:09]
Pro-patent lobby in sticky situation over ice-cream offer
News On Wednesday last week, every Member of the European Parliament and their assistants received an email from Malcolm Harbour, a Conservative MEP for the West Midlands, inviting them to an event held by pro-patent group Campaign for Creativity (C4C...
[June 6, 2005, 16:50]
Aussie PM hires firm to spam electorate
News Howard has admitted he had hired his son's company, Net Harbour, to distribute emails containing promotional Liberal Party electoral material to voters in his electorate of Bennelong. The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper quoted one recipient of the...
[August 27, 2004, 10:35]
Europe takes a front seat in Net rulemaking
News The European Union bans the sale of customer information to marketers unless the company qualifies for a "safe harbour" exception -- a rule that could have major ripple effects for Salesforce.com and other US businesses.
[January 16, 2002, 14:49]
EU committee gives 'file-sharing' law go-ahead
News One of the authors of the amendments, the British Conservative MEP Malcolm Harbour, told the BBC on Tuesday that the amendments "have nothing to do with copyright enforcement". The interpretation of them is alarmist and scaremongering and deflects...
[July 8, 2008, 16:43]
US regulators question cloud-computing security
News FTC commissioner Harbour said at Tuesday's conference that it would be preferable if more than one large company such as Google were responsible for storing personal data. The current panoply of laws at the state, national and international level...
[March 18, 2009, 7:48]
Sydney 2000: Let the games begin
News Olympic surfers hit the Harbour waves Tue, 12 Sep 2000 The surf's up at Sydney's Darling Harbour with 50 floating IBM Activa PCs linked directly to the FanMail network -- ready to send messages to athletes at the Olympic Village
[September 12, 2000, 16:21]
EU rejects US opposition to privacy directive
News Financial services were excluded from the original Safe Harbour agreement as the US Department of Commerce who negotiated the directive, does not regulate the American financial sector. This dilutes the practical benefits of Safe Harbour as it...
[May 8, 2001, 16:05]
Amazon accused of breaking data protection laws
News The Data Protection Commissioner is however confident that the Safe Harbour Agreement, drawn up in July by the EU and US Department of Commerce, is sufficient to protect the transmission of British consumers' data to America.
[September 19, 2000, 7:02]
AOL wins 'hostile code' ruling
News AOL said the application of the CDA's "safe harbour" provision was right in line with prior rulings. AOL said it was "proud" to have had a hand in crafting the safe harbour section. In what legal experts describe as a first, a US District Court has...
[January 23, 2003, 14:30]
Data protection laws still face uphill battle
News The US government used its position paper to praise the US-EU Safe Harbour framework, which allows transfer of personal data to businesses in non-EU countries, as long as they have agreed to abide by "adequate" protection measures.
[May 19, 2003, 16:24]
Bush attacks European privacy regulations
News Also at issue is what's known as "safe harbour," which doesn't cover financial institutions. Safe harbour is an arrangement negotiated by the Department of Commerce and the EU in which companies agree to abide by a set of guidelines dealing with...
[March 28, 2001, 8:48]
