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About a month after colleges and universities were warned about file sharing and associated piracy issues by the RIAA, and in turn sounded the alarm, EPIC has chimed in with another warning. The non-profit privacy rights organization informs educational institutions that aggressive monitoring of online activity impacts students privacy and their right to academic freedom.
On November 6, Microsoft released an essay, An Agenda for Innovation, that focuses on hot button issues such as cybercrime and protecting copyrights.
Corporations have for some time expressed their concern to the government that their identities and losses not be revealed when their IT infrastructures are maliciously attacked and compromised. According to Government Technology (via AP), FBI Director Mueller has promised that agents will use discretion to protect the reputation of companies that report such crimes, as …
Enterprise solution company Intentia filed criminal charges with the Swedish Criminal Investigation Department against Reuters on Monday, October 28 after posting this announcement on their site on October 26. According to this Wired article, Intentia claims that an unauthorized entry into their server occurred during which time a Reuters news reporter obtained access to the …
The FBI, via its National Infrastructure Protection Center, is investigating the DoS attack on the Internet that occurred October 21 (see my previous posting, //www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/000375.html).
Many news outlets reported what was described as an historic denial of service attack(DoS) that began on Monday, and lasted about an hour. Reports vary, but at least 9 of the 13 root servers were affected. See the Washington Post coverage here, and CNN’s coverage here.
Consumers have indicated that they doubt the safety of online credit card transactions, a fear that is borne out by the $1 billion in merchant loses per year. The New York Times reports that a group of large, high profile merchants have joined together to create a database to fight credit card fraud.
More homeland security related legislation is in the spotlight, with the passage of H.R.3394 , the Cyber Security Research and Development Act. The focus of the programs included in the legislation are grants by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NTIS to support research to protect government and corporate computer systems from terrorist attacks. See …
Frustrated victims of online fraud are looking for alternatives to fight back after receiving little or no assistance from e-commerce sites. According to Business Week, consumers can check the database of CardCops to see if their credit card information is available on the Web. The site also supports an e-mail service, NeighborNetWatch, to which consumers …
Key logging software has been around for quite awhile. Companies use it to ‘virtually’ stand over the shoulders of employees and read every letter typed on their keyboards. But this software is also used by hackers to commit identity theft, as was the case with nefarious installations on the computer systems of major universities throughout …
