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ADSL and the opportunistic hackers
News British security experts predict a sharp rise in the number of computer attacks on individual Internet users with the introduction of always-on ADSL Internet access. The concern is that users with a fixed IP address and a permanent Internet...
[May 8, 2000, 16:32]
Lords calls for urgent action on internet security
News The UK government must strive towards improving internet security, to avoid disastrous consequences for both businesses and individual users, according to an influential House of Lords committee. The UK government's emphasis on individuals taking...
[August 10, 2007, 17:43]
Bloggers celebrate court ruling
News In a victory for bloggers, newsgroup participants and other web publishers, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that individual internet users cannot be held liable for republishing defamatory statements written by others.
[November 21, 2006, 8:11]
Lone file-swapper takes on recording industry
Talkback Maybe the best response to the RIAA going after individual users is for individual users worldwide to organize a BOYCOTT against stores that sell CD's. This would send RIAA a message that if they think they are losing money now, just watch how much...
[October 3, 2003, 15:38]
A Two-Pass Statistical Approach for Automatic Personalized Spam Filtering
White Papers Typically, spam filters are built on the assumption that the characteristics of e-mails in the training dataset is identical to those in individual users' inboxes on which it will be applied. A personalized spam filter is built by taking into...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Competition hots up between 3G and Wi-Fi
News The battle between 3G and Wi-Fi for dominance of the wireless internet world will all come down to which offers the broadest benefits to individual users, analysts have predicted. As for the likely winner, Bubley said: "It'll come down to the...
[June 19, 2007, 13:57]
Cyber-commerce threatened by malicious code
News According to Alison Taylor, spokeswoman for Finjan this could have major implications not only for individual users but for corporations and the development of e-commerce. There isn't an easy system for corporate or individual users to decide what...
[October 27, 1998, 15:02]
Blog site back up after hack attack
News The hack compromised individual accounts, locking out site users from their blogs. Users whose accounts were compromised should be able to access them again, he said. The site now has about 875,000 users who publish some 930,000 blogs, according to...
[October 28, 2002, 9:11]
Why phishing is a business issue
News While phishing may appear to be a threat that primarily affects individual users, it also poses a major problem for businesses, both directly and indirectly. Forrester Research, 600,000 online banking users in the UK have turned their backs on...
[October 20, 2005, 15:15]
Hasn't this government report gone a stage too far?
Talkback The question for me is how can government or business protect individual users more when individual users seem to be happy to give their personal details to any tom, dick or harry just because they are on-line?
[August 13, 2007, 9:12]
Lords chides government over internet security
News The government must do more to protect individual internet users," a House of Lords statement read. Individual internet users are increasingly victimised," said the report. The government has insisted in evidence to this inquiry that the...
[August 10, 2007, 0:01]
Zoho Office Suite beta review
Reviews Zoho makes it easy to share your files with a public URL or feed, or to invite individual users to collaborate on edits. Zoho recently allowed users to sign on to the Suite's various services with a single ID.
[October 30, 2006, 8:42]
Ruling means dark days for P2P users?
News In fact, the ruling could accelerate the labels' plans to go after individual users, especially when coupled with a decision on Thursday in a separate case that gives them more power to unmask the identity of individual file swappers.
[April 28, 2003, 9:44]
The UK is no place for Napster
News In the latest case, Dr Dre is also threatening to sue individual users for copyright violation. There are no plans currently to take individual users to court but Edwards does not rule it out. Napster clones setting up in the UK will be stamped out...
[May 3, 2000, 11:31]
P2P: Barksdale and Andreessen are back!
News Their idea, according to sources, is to distribute content to individual computer users more quickly than is typically possible. It would be available to them, but also could be available to other nearby computer users who later decided they wanted...
[March 6, 2001, 8:40]
Excite@Home snoops on user downloads
News The users added that if an individual is breaking the law on the Internet, it should be treated in a similar way to somebody abusing the telephone system. Excite@Home Australia users are up in arms over the telco's random raids on their broadband...
[August 22, 2001, 12:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Commercial concerns are against regulators in general, seeing them as annoying rule makers who always have reasons why something new should not be done for the first time, the existing regulators are jealous of their powers and influence and are...
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
Microsoft wants to manage identities
News The new software includes tools that allow individual users to change their own passwords using a secured Web page. With MIIS, Microsoft is trying to target business users on internal networks. Its existing Passport service is designed to...
[July 3, 2003, 9:37]
Don't leave risk management to chance
News Network availability will also be another key indicator of the management of risk for the IT department — the provision of an end-to-end service to individual or groups of users shows how IT has managed to support the organisation in its pursuit...
[October 4, 2005, 16:00]
Academic network signs up for text service
News The Joint Academic Network has signed a deal for a mobile-phone text service to connect the 18 million users of its education network. The UK Education and Research Networking Association (UKerna) manages the Janet network, which it claims is the...
[May 3, 2007, 11:09]
