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From Websense’s fifth annual Web@Work survey, April 26: “92 Percent of Organizations with at Least 100 Employees Have Been Contaminated With Spyware, Yet Only Six Percent of Employees Believe They Have Been Infected.” In related news, see A Web of Electronic Denial
FTC Working to Protect Consumers and Businesses from Information Security Breaches Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Protecting Our Nation’s Cyberspace, Presented by Commissioner Orson Swindle Before the Subcommittee On Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census of the Committee On Government Reform, United States House of Representatives (April 21, 2004). FTC …
From yesterday’s FTC Spyware Workshop, the Consumer Software Working Group Examples of Unfair, Deceptive or Devious Practices Involving Software, “endorsed by a broad coalition of software companies, Internet service providers, anti-spyware technology vendors, and consumer groups convened by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).” For additional resources, see CDT’s Spyware page. See also Few …
The BBC reports that the results of recent surveys of London commuters, requesting their PC login passwords in exchange for chocolate, were that a majority of respondents provided them without hesitation. Must be really good chocolate! In addition, the survey established that pet names are all too often passwords of choice, and are also willingly …
Today the FTC hosted a public workshop, “Monitoring Software on Your PC: Spyware, Adware, and Other Software,” (Agenda, pdf) “to explore the issues associated with the distribution and effects of software that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge and which may send such information to another entity without the …
ISP EarthLink and privacy software company Webroot Software have published their first report on the pervasive impact of spyware, based on an audit covering the first three months of 2004, that includes scans of one million PCs. See also this PCWorld article on Spy Stoppers.
Yale Law School’s Information Society Project hosted the CyberCrime and Digital Law Enforcement Conference March 26-28. From the conference, links to selected presentations are as follows: Computer Crimes and Intermediary Liability: The Case for Protecting Vulnerability Publications The Digital Crime Scene: A Software Prospective The Legal Construction of Identity Theft Designing Accountable Online Policing
From the FTC press release: “A new Spam Scam Alert from the Federal Trade Commission could help consumers avoid becoming identity theft victims.” Is Someone “Phishing” for Your Information?
From the Computer Crime Research Center: Internet fraud: volumes are increasing: “According to certain data, there are 30 kinds of illegal operations with cards in the Internet. The most widespread are payment using non-existing cards, creating false Internet shops, e-thefts, false payments at gambling websites.”
Treasury notice from the March 2 Federal Register: Public Comment on Formulating and Conducting a Study on the Use of Biometrics and Other Similar Technologies to Combat Identity Theft For reference, see the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act).
RSA Security Study Shows Identity Theft Awareness High, But Consumer Confidence Low, (abstract only available online).
Press release: Senator Feinstein Calls on CEOs to Protect Privacy of Documents Outsourced Abroad: “As policymakers consider the impact of American jobs being sent overseas, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) reminded CEOs of several major U.S. corporations of another danger brought on by the outsourcing of work abroad the increased potential for identity theft.” …
