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Police U-turn On ISP Server Logs
News The National Crime Squad (NCS) on Thursday denied that it had access to the traffic logs of Demon Internet for Operation Landmark, despite implying on Wednesday that it had "imaged" the servers of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) for 16 days.
[November 29, 2001, 17:53]
Handling Firewalls
News These logs can provide valuable information, but they can also be difficult to monitor and manage on a consistent basis. Leaving the logs on your firewall is an invitation for an attacker to tamper with them, or even worse, to flood the logs and...
[May 29, 2002, 21:14]
Europe Moves To Monitor All Internet Traffic
News European Home Office officials are supporting demands from law enforcement authorities for logs of all Internet traffic to be stored for up to seven years, a move that would increase police powers to intercept communications data.
[May 17, 2001, 7:48]
UK Police Ask For Traffic Data From ISPs
News Last week AOL and EarthLink confirmed that they had handed over the relevant traffic logs. The request refers only to logs of emails sent and received since 11 September -- a separate interception warrant would be needed to access the content of...
[September 17, 2001, 14:02]
Anonymous Email Could Be Abolished
News The European Parliament is currently discussing plans to give law enforcers the legal right to access traffic logs. If anonymous email is made illegal and the police are given greater access to Internet traffic logs, this is likely to increase the...
[April 10, 2000, 14:31]
Civil Liberties Groups Condemn Big Brother Proposals
News Under the proposal, logs of Internet traffic would be handed over to a government-run data warehouse. Currently, ISPs in Britain keep logs of Internet traffic for anything from a few minutes to a number of years.
[December 4, 2000, 8:40]
The Net's New Neighbourhood Watch
News By comparing hundreds of logs of which Internet addresses are attempting to connect to which ports, it is possible to cull serial offenders from the data. Many people sent these logs to the ISPs but the ISPs are flooded by such requests," said...
[December 6, 2000, 12:09]
Web Ratings: Numbers Can Lie
News Still, Media Metrix's revision of eFront's numbers drew little public attention until last month, when hundreds of pages of ICQ instant messaging logs between eFront chief executive Sam Jain and his correspondents, including some fellow executives...
[April 30, 2001, 13:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In any case, you can be sure that the authorities will have demanded this information -- or may be scanning logs to find it out in any case. Also, it would be remarkable from a technical point of view if the people within BT who implement Cleanfeed...
[July 23, 2004, 18:00]
Business: IM Is Getting Out Of Control
News This proliferation of secure products comes just as corporate IM users are taking a second look at the wisdom of exchanging sensitive information via instant message, the hazards of which were brought into high relief after the purloined ICQ logs...
[April 26, 2001, 15:14]
Police Slammed For 'hysterical' Response To EU Privacy Directive
News He also criticised its claim that the deletion of all traffic logs would seriously hamper police attempts to combat cybercrime as "misleading". They only have the right to look at traffic data on a specific individual if they have a warrant.
[August 13, 2001, 12:52]
Detecting Abnormal Network Activities With Netflow
White Papers Although firewall logs often provide a huge information regarding intrusion attempts, sometimes might be of too much data to sort through when there is a problem one cannot resolve it quickly. There are a lot of ways to monitor and analyze the...
[October 5, 2006, 0:00]
Design Of A Network-Access Audit Log For Security Monitoring And Forensic Investigation
White Papers The paper proposes a network-access log that bridges the gap between system event logs and network monitoring by extending event logging on individual hosts with information pertaining to generation of network traffic.
[March 4, 2008, 23:00]
TechNet Webcast: Introduction To Blogging For The IT Professional (Level 100)
White Papers Information technology (IT) professionals are starting Web logs ("blogs") by the droves. This webcast provides help on building your own blog presence, brand, and traffic. Are you ready to join the IT blog knowledgebase?
[October 13, 2005, 0:00]
Police Want Power To Store All Emails
News Police in the UK are to push for powers to store logs of all UK Internet traffic for up to five years, it was said today at the launch of the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). Roger Gaspar, deputy director general of the National Criminal...
[April 18, 2001, 16:26]
Web Attack Manhunt 'impossible'
News All providers have to scrutinise their router logs tracing back traffic," Mixter said, and that's a time-intensive process. It's largely because the traffic is mock traffic. The FBI might have vowed to bring the "packet warriors" responsible for...
[February 11, 2000, 8:20]
Kazaa's Spying Potential Revealed
News He went on to say that information could be collected in the form of activity logs -- a standard device used by operators of networks to record information about network traffic. A witness in the ongoing civil trial against peer-to-peer software...
[December 7, 2004, 9:40]
ISPs Blast Police Ignorance
News Nevertheless, Gaspar defended the need to store information such as email and traffic logs. Despite proposing that law enforcers should be allowed to store all UK email and browsing traffic data for up to seven years, director of the National...
[January 17, 2001, 9:22]
Networks Boost Security Against Attacks
News Among the recommendations RedSiren is making to clients is to review critical logs for suspicious traffic in an effort to keep corporate computers from being used for distributed-denial-of-service attacks and other malicious intents, Gary said.
[September 17, 2001, 10:39]
F-Secure Attacks Smartphone Spying Software
News The antivirus company said that, if a user logs in to the Mobile Spy demonstration account, and goes to view SMS logs, there are demonstration samples from a database of messages. Ayre advised businesses against monitoring emails marked "private...
[October 1, 2007, 16:28]
