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New loophole makes email spying easy
News A newly-discovered email loophole could allow for widespread snooping of other people's online messages, adding to concerns over Internet privacy. The loophole lets an unscrupulous individual essentially "bug" an email sent to any email client that...
[February 5, 2001, 12:28]
GPL 3 may tackle Web loophole
News GPL 3, the next version of the free software licence, of which a draft is expected for release in early 2006, may close this loophole, according to GPL author and head of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Richard Stallman, in an interview with...
[September 27, 2005, 18:25]
EU creates loophole for personal data transfers
News The new contractual clause will provide a loophole for companies wishing to transfer customer data to countries outside the EU, while maintaining their compliance with European legal safeguards. Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA...
[January 24, 2002, 16:12]
BBC fixes hack loophole in iPlayer
News The BBC has issued a fix for a loophole that allowed hackers to download unrestricted content from its iPlayer online TV service. Hackers have been exploiting the loophole to download content stripped of its digital-rights management (DRM...
[March 14, 2008, 8:59]
Charity sees big loophole in ethical IT code
News The ethical code of conduct launched last week by IT firms including IBM, HP and Dell appears to contain a major loophole that will allow unscrupulous suppliers to wriggle out of its constraints, according to the charity originally highlighted the...
[October 25, 2004, 14:45]
Freeserve customer duped by reboot loophole
News Freeserve customers who fail to relaunch Internet Explorer and Outlook Express after installing their "Freeserve Anytime" disc, could be lumbered with a massive telephone bill. But the ISP has stated that it will not accept responsibility for...
[June 29, 2001, 11:19]
Phishing hole 'left open' by banks
News An easily remedied Web site loophole may be leaving banks and other companies that do business online more susceptible to phishing attacks, according to Netcraft. Mutton said the lion's share of the attacks being created using the technology...
[March 15, 2005, 7:55]
Snooping laws caught in catch-22
News ISPs want the government to plug a loophole in the law that lets government agencies demand access to customer data -- and which could leave ISPs out of pocket and open to prosecution. The trouble is, say legal experts, that plugging this loophole...
[December 13, 2002, 15:54]
Passport needed for mobile phone purchases?
Blog The loophole being that pay-as-you-go customers would still effectively be anonymous, hence the idea that people use their passports when buying a phone. This would supposedly cut a loophole out of the upcoming Communications Data Bill, which the...
[October 20, 2008, 14:16]
RIPA surveillance may break human rights laws
News The powers, introduced by an upcoming provision of the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), passed two years ago, may violate human rights laws because of a loophole under which law enforcement agencies may access data that...
[July 31, 2002, 16:43]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Some hacker, it seems, went into their main site, and brought it down with a security loophole -- and not just any old hack.microsoft.com trick, either. But to block this loophole, of course, it has to.
[July 12, 1997, 8:00]
A Year Ago: Internet tariffs must change - Oftel report
News The Oftel report is designed to tackle ISPs use of 0345 numbers which provide a legal loophole that allows ISPs to share local call rates with telcos when using the 0345 prefix. The number of free ISPs using the loophole has encouraged lengthy...
[February 24, 2000, 5:17]
Government must update cybercrime laws, say experts
News Robertson called for government action to close.For more, click here.the loophole, as previous attempts to legislation through private members bills have failed. Government must "close the loophole" But Private Members' Bills rarely succeed so...
[November 4, 2005, 16:05]
Peer-to-peer battle gets personal
News Closing a loophole Bob Goodlatte, the co-chairman of the Congressional Internet Caucus, drafted the NET Act to close what had become known as the "LaMacchia Loophole. Napster fell to legal assaults, and MP3.com soon came under fire by the recording...
[August 13, 2002, 15:44]
Nessus ceases to be open source
News A number of companies are using the source code against us, by selling or renting appliances, thus exploiting a loophole in the GPL," he wrote in a later email justifying his decision. The source code of one of the world's most popular free...
[October 7, 2005, 10:05]
Still an open range for junk faxes in California
Talkback No loophole. USC227 clearly bans junk fax and spam could be included in the interpretation as well: b) Restrictions on use of automated telephone equipment Prohibitions It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States—
[December 24, 2005, 7:51]
Pakistan to curb porn with free filtering software
Talkback good to know such a step is on it's way, but, wat a big loophole ! who is ever going to install it? parents, net cafe admins? really ? bet on it, noone is going to take this seriously, this is smth.which has to be controlled on the govt.level...
[January 23, 2006, 14:08]
Comcast sends out less spam
News Cable giant Comcast on Thursday said the volume of spam originating from its network has dropped 35 percent since it blocked an email loophole weeks ago. The new data comes after Comcast, the nation's largest broadband service, earlier this month...
[June 30, 2004, 9:25]
Don't be a victim of identity theft
Talkback i have had my address stolen and know that it is being used to obtain credit fraudulantly i am appalled that this loophole in the law allows people to steal money from finanicial bodys without fear of the police i appreciate these bodies should...
[October 10, 2006, 9:59]
Spanish site to offer all-you-can-eat music downloads
News A new all-you-can-eat music download service that claims to take advantage of a loophole in Spanish copyright law will launch on Tuesday and piggyback on a popular file-swapping network for distribution.
[May 20, 2003, 7:32]
