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Council Workers Shown The Door Over Web Abuse
News The individuals, who all work for Wirral Council's young offenders team, were removed from their duties last week after routine monitoring of employees' web use revealed those concerned had breached the council's guidelines on appropriate internet...
[October 28, 2002, 17:14]
BT Wages War On 'cyber-slacking'
News BT Group on Thursday unveiled a new business targeting SMEs who are riddled with inefficiencies resulting from email and Web abuse. High-profile instances of employee web abuse and email misuse reflecting badly upon their employer are becoming more...
[October 31, 2002, 15:17]
Digital Fingerprint To Tackle Dark Side Of The Web
News Forensic software enabling a digital fingerprint to be attached to electronic images on the Web was launched on Thursday, providing companies with a new means of cracking down on employee abuse of the Internet.
[April 20, 2001, 8:11]
Web Blamed For Surge In Child Porn
Talkback How is it then that increased child abuse (about which any sensible person is concerned) is "evidence" that paedophilic pornography on the Web and Internet is its cause ? Finding the cause of child abuse is not furthered by blaming anything or...
[January 13, 2004, 13:59]
Securing A Brave New E-world
News The 17-year-old hacker from Wolfeboro, N.H.could serve up to 15 years on a variety of charges that stem from his alleged vandalising of three Web sites, including the anti-drug group Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE.
[April 5, 2000, 9:05]
'Cyber-loafing' Signposts Motivation Problems
News David Guyatt, chief executive of filtering specialist Clearswift, said companies should be employing technology to identify problems of email and Web abuse; not solely to identify problem staff and serial procrastinators with a view to...
[July 16, 2004, 12:25]
Privacy Vs. Personalization - A Delicate Balance
White Papers But, they are stridently demanding that this information be used to enhance their experience — and that the information is not used in ways that abuse a privileged relationship, or even be subject to a perception of abuse.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
E-tailers Learn A Lesson -- The Hard Way
News With the flood of offers being sent out as the holidays approach, the potential for abuse has only got larger. There are times when people try to abuse it. Some have even created Web sites featuring lists of promotion codes and ID numbers offering...
[December 15, 1999, 9:01]
AOL Wins 'hostile Code' Ruling
News Most famously, AOL in 1998 staved off a $30m suit brought by a White House advisor after Web site writer and AOL subscriber Matt Drudge accused the advisor of spousal abuse. One legal expert, who called the decision unprecedented, said it would...
[January 23, 2003, 14:30]
Google Blocked From Asking Whois
News In order to thwart abuse, the company has long set a daily cap on the number of times any third-party Web site can query its database. Moore said he has instituted his own security measures against Whois abuse by blocking the Internet Protocol...
[January 28, 2004, 9:05]
UNESCO Calls For 'Cyber Mums' Against Paedophiles
News UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) is calling for a worldwide network of `cyber mums' as a result of the conference -- Sexual abuse, Child Pornography and Paedophilia on the Internet -- held in Paris in January.
[March 22, 1999, 10:53]
Hackers Earn Income From Spam Attacks
News I got an abuse report from somebody in Florida and was very surprised, because we run a very clear network and got just three abuse reports in three years," said Don Lashier, owner of Newport Internet in Oregon.
[July 4, 2001, 11:49]
NSPCC To Double Number Of Paedophile Investigation Units
News The charity is the only organisation in the country with the right to investigate cases of organised child abuse. Although not aware of any specific investigation into Internet child abuse, he said it was "something we are looking into" and...
[March 22, 1999, 14:16]
Tiny URLs Shorten Web Addresses
News Abuse by spammers is the big problem with TinyURL," Gilbert wrote in an instant-message interview. Gilbertson says he disables spam-related URLs one by one, following tips sent to an abuse address and notifications by SpamCop, an antispam group.
[December 23, 2003, 13:55]
Web Attacks: Are ISPs Doing Enough?
News We have an abuse coordinator that has a stack of complaints. The result is a flood of email to providers that is as debilitating as the Denial of Service attacks that hit the Web on 7 to 9 February. It's been two months (since I notified my...
[February 22, 2000, 9:13]
Web Policy Management An Individual Employee's Perspective
White Papers As discussed in the paper, the company detected serious abuse of Web-access privileges and disciplined the employees involved. This paper discusses a real-world case of software-based Web policy implementation.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Professional Services Firm Deploys SurfControl Web Filter
White Papers However, Web abuse does not have to be intentional for it to compromise the position of an organization. In addition, the firm had decided that some personal Web use was acceptable, but needed to ensure that this was kept to a reasonable level.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
VordelSecure - For Web Services Security
White Papers VordelSecure 1.1 provides full protection for your XML and Web services deployments against internal abuse and external attack. Web services introduce new security risks, which are not addressed by traditional security solutions that provide...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
WSF: An HTTP-Level Firewall For Hardening Web Servers
White Papers Second, to prevent abuse of web application with malicious parameters, WSF allows web application developers to specify the restriction on application running parameters, rather than requiring them to enumerating all possible invalid input...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Custom Built-In Root CA Certificates For Mozilla
White Papers Still, there is a lot of potential for abuse using man-in-the-middle attacks, which are facilitated by the lack of sophistication among the user population, and by the fact that, for cost reasons, many servers operate outside the public-key...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
