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DejaNews To Stop Tracking Addresses
News The new policy comes just days after computer sleuth Richard Smith discovered the company was collecting records of responses to online postings without visitors' permission, potentially setting up the conditions for significant privacy invasion.
[May 5, 1999, 11:32]
Doctors May Be Fined For Losing Data
News Assistant information commissioner David Smith said that currently the ICO can only issue a letter when data is exposed, saying there will be action in the event of a second data breach. Smith said the ICO was seeking to extend its inspection...
[November 16, 2007, 10:41]
Privacy Expert Resigns To Focus On Security
News Well-known privacy watchdog Richard Smith said Wednesday that he is leaving his post at the Privacy Foundation to research security issues following the September 11 attacks, one sign of the country's shifting focus from protecting privacy to...
[November 1, 2001, 12:09]
Just How Safe Is Outlook 2002?
News Internet privacy researcher Richard Smith released on Thursday a list of four issues that continue to undermine the security of Microsoft's Outlook 2002 and could leave the major mail program open to attack by virus writers.
[March 22, 2002, 9:22]
Windows Media: Watching You Watching DVD
News In a Web advisory, computer privacy and security consultant Richard Smith detailed what he termed "a number of serious privacy problems" with the Windows Media Player for the Windows XP operating system.
[February 21, 2002, 12:06]
Can You Trust TRUSTe?
News TRUSTe and other privacy services "come in after the fact and say what the company did was bad, but they don't do anything to solve the problems," said Richard Smith, an independent Internet consultant who has uncovered several of the worst...
[November 3, 1999, 9:38]
April Fool: Timing's Right For A Virus
News Noted cybersleuth Richard Smith, now chief technology officer of PrivacyFoundation.org, found the bug in January of 1999, but Microsoft officials say it was introduced into software back in 1995. In a "reminder" note to developers sent out Thursday...
[March 30, 2001, 13:41]
No Easy Way To Exterminate 'Web Bugs'
News The benefits of the feature outweigh the tracking risks," said Richard Smith, chief technology officer for the Privacy Foundation in Denver. Companies might use this to locate any leaks, [and] marketing companies use Web bugs every day of the week...
[September 1, 2000, 8:37]
Microsoft Confirms April Fool's Bug
News It's unusual, because it's so pervasive," said Richard Smith, president of Phar Lap Software, who discovered the bug and published it in an industry list called NT Bug Track last week. Smith traced the bug to a library file that checks when to...
[January 13, 1999, 11:05]
IE Privacy Flaw Still Causing Leaks
News This week, computer privacy and security consultant Richard Smith warned that a unique ID created under default settings for the Windows Media Player provides a simple override for those measures. Using simple JavaScript code on a Web page, a Web...
[January 16, 2002, 10:47]
Malware: Do You Know Your Enemy?
News Cookies are so common," said Richard Smith, a privacy and security consultant. Still, Smith defines spyware as software such as keystroke loggers, used to steal bank information or other sensitive data, or applications designed to literally let one...
[February 4, 2005, 11:30]
Study: Hackers Take A Trip Through Asia
News While the results don't suggest which nations have the most hackers, they do indicate that unsecured infrastructure is often co-opted by attackers in other countries and poses a significant risk to others connected to the Internet, said Richard...
[March 19, 2002, 10:14]
Intuit Scrambles To Plug Quicken Leaks
News The "data spillage" problem, discovered by Richard M Smith, an Internet security consultant, appears to be widespread, and isn't limited to personal finance sites. But Smith, the computer consultant who identified the problem, noted most URLs don't...
[March 2, 2000, 14:29]
Dutch Treat? Netherlander Takes Credit For 'Anna'
News The information connecting OnTheFly and the Excite@Home subscriber had been first found by Richard Smith, chief technology officer of the Privacy Foundation and a key online detective in the Melissa virus case two years ago.
[February 14, 2001, 8:03]
New Virus Travels In PDF Files
News What I'm concerned about here is that this could be a new frontier," said Richard Smith, chief technology officer of the Privacy Foundation. Smith posted news of the virus to the Bugtraq security mailing list on Tuesday.
[August 8, 2001, 9:30]
Credit Card Theft Feared In Windows Flaw
News The good news is probably no one has really exploited this over the years," said Richard Smith, an independent security analyst. We don't know, for example, what non-Microsoft products people have to be concerned about here," said Smith.
[September 9, 2002, 10:56]
Microsoft Bans Employees From Music Swapping
News I've been advising my clients to also ban music-sharing software in the workplace," said security consultant Richard Smith. In their email to employees, the three Microsoft executives -- Will Poole, corporate vice president for the Windows Media...
[July 29, 2002, 9:07]
Melissa Threat Triggers Manhunt
News Smith, president of software tools developer Phar Lap Software Inc. There is a slim chance that this could be used to catch the writer (of the Melissa virus)," said Smith. In Microsoft's case, the GUID was not intended to track people at all, said...
[March 30, 1999, 9:51]
HP Readies For Consumer Blitz
News Our sense is that (HP's third quarter) has been no walk in the park, primarily due to economic weakness in Europe," Salomon Smith Barney analyst Richard Gardner wrote in a research note on Thursday. Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Salomon Smith...
[August 11, 2003, 15:05]
Yahoo! Mail Filters Out Java-related Words
News This is kind of in the twilight zone," said Richard Smith, a security and privacy expert who runs a Web site called ComputerBytesMan.com. That's what everybody else does," Smith said. If you don't filter JavaScript, then you can have malicious...
[July 17, 2002, 13:40]
