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Email quarantines and corporate paranoia boost demand for storage
News According to Gray, Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations have led to "information paranoia". Information paranoia is a positive thing; we have seen a growth in customers saying they want to guarantee that users never lose a legitimate email.
[May 26, 2004, 14:20]
UK workers paranoid over email surveillance
News revealed mass paranoia among the UK workforce when it comes to the sanctity of their email inbox. While that suggestion would sit well with hard work purists, whole industries are thriving from people's paranoia about email snooping in the office.
[March 20, 2003, 14:45]
Staying afloat in a skills storm
News The increasingly interconnected nature of business that Blaber describes is also leading to a justifiable increase in chief information officer paranoia. For all job and work-related news, or to search for a job and get information on training, go...
[November 4, 2002, 12:21]
Barrett points to France in Encryption lesson
News But, said Gold, with no Cold War the political stance could be due to "government paranoia". Like the US, European governments are worried that powerful encryption technology could be used by terrorists and criminals to shield their activities and...
[September 25, 1998, 16:45]
Online banking: A veil of safety
News Along with safeguarding medical histories, many people view their financial information as a sacred totem -- a record of their past and a window into their nest egg for the future -- and are increasingly distrustful of financial institutions in...
[May 6, 2002, 7:32]
Email archiving could break Data Protection Act
News Companies keeping everything for the purposes of liability are taking a disproportionate approach -- it's corporate paranoia and there are data protection rules that they have to obey. The Office of the Information Commissioner -- formerly the...
[April 27, 2001, 8:35]
Google side-steps AI rumours
News When questioned on whether a renaissance of the general paranoia about omnipotent and malign computers was underway now, Levick admitted that such concerns were more abundant, but insisted that Google's core philosophy of "Don't be evil" guides...
[November 15, 2005, 15:00]
The Net's new neighbourhood watch
News It's a recipe for paranoia: take a garden-variety PC, connect it to the Internet over a high-speed line, and add a personal firewall. Several of the denial-of-service attacks that slowed -- and in some cases, ceased -- the information flow to...
[December 6, 2000, 12:09]
Hoax e-mail hits AOL
News The message tells a story of intrigue, corporate corruption and paranoia worthy of an episode of the "X-Files. But among the flurries of Internet hoaxes that occasionally bombard the Net, the new message, titled "Important information regarding AOL...
[October 8, 1997, 11:06]
MS faces tougher battle in Europe
News A lot of it is certain paranoia that the onset of the Bush administration essentially means the death of effective antitrust enforcement. We continue to work with the commission, to respond to their questions, to provide them the information they...
[July 4, 2001, 10:36]
Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology review
Reviews After all, it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you. Say, for example, that you want to steal some information, but you don't want to reveal the details of what information you are stealing.
[August 23, 2005, 16:35]
DEF CON: Fear and fascination in Las Vegas
News The usually packed conference room was also overflowing with government-wary paranoia. If information is a virus, DEF CON 6 attendees were a crowd looking to get infected. Other groups traded information, access and techniques away from the main...
[August 4, 1998, 14:09]
AIM add-on prompts spyware concerns
News It's hard to blame user paranoia," St. All of those parties are concerned about the security threat to consumers and businesses over software that can steal sensitive information without their knowledge.
[March 3, 2004, 17:05]
You may say I'm a dreamer...
Blog In real life, I've seen one person I knew begin to slip into paranoia: it's that old hippy question, how do you tell a friend that their brain is fried? Now, the Internet is a remarkable compendium of individual information - again, this we know.
[December 8, 2006, 6:40]
Ordnance Survey: Putting GIS on the map
News The one place on the Earth that has been well mapped is Great Britain, thanks mainly to the paranoia of an 18th century government that wanted to plan adequate defences to repel invasions. Tesco uses geographical information to figure out not just...
[October 23, 2003, 17:30]
Corporates hiring people to read staff email
News The Proofpoint-sponsored study found the motivation for the mail paranoia was mostly due to fears that employees were leaking confidential memos and other sensitive information, such as intellectual property or trade secrets, with 76 per cent of...
[July 22, 2004, 16:00]
Do you know where your data is?
Leader We do not expect overseas Web service providers in the developed world to be any more prone to legal or illegal disclosure of private information than those in the UK, but changing circumstances - especially in those countries with a heightened...
[February 21, 2006, 13:05]
2001: The year of the virus
News 2001 brought with it an answer to the paranoia over the Y2K bug that gripped the world in 1999, and its name was Code Red. This more destructive variant attacks the same vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS) servers, but...
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
MS denies giving American NSA key
News I'm in the security business, and the security business is the business of paranoia," he said. More information is at the Cryptonym site. Microsoft is denying claims by a Canadian security company that it has installed a second key in its Windows...
[September 6, 1999, 9:24]
The Day Ahead: Can things get even better for Cisco?
News Executives even shed a little bit of their "healthy paranoia" to hint that things could get better. Chambers reckons that corporations will nearly double spending on information technology in some cases.
[August 9, 2000, 13:28]
