spying
RSS spyingTechies wanted for 007 jobs
News The website attempts to dispel the myth around the glamour of spying as portrayed in Ian Fleming's James Bond stories. MI6, the intelligence agency for overseas operations, is looking to recruit IT and technology experts... [28 Apr 2006]
Security industry M&As under the spotlight
News In providing a broad view of areas in which they are interested in making acquisitions, Jain said McAfee finds areas that need addressing include industrial spying, or the tampering and theft of information. [16 Feb 2006]
White House divulges surveillance details
News In a sign that political pressure from other Republicans is having an effect, the White House on Wednesday disclosed details about its domestic spying programme in a secret meeting with members of a House of... [09 Feb 2006]
Apple moves to stifle iTunes spying fears
News Following a wave of privacy concerns last week, Apple has begun prominently notifying customers about a new recommendation feature in its iTunes software, as well as spotlighting a simple way to turn it off. [19 Jan 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.12.05
Round-Up So that leaves a toss up between whether it is more surprising that HR managers, those trusted keepers of company secrets, were so quick to spill the beans at the first opportunity or that they spend their evenings... [02 Dec 2005]
007 wannabes wanted
News The website attempts to dispel the myth around the glamour of spying as portrayed in Ian Fleming's James Bond stories. The overseas intelligence service MI6 has launched a new website to enlist recruits - so would-be... [13 Oct 2005]
Scuba diver gets hooked up for record attempt
News Spying on walleye can only take one so far. Richard Henry will attempt to break a scuba endurance record this summer - and along with his regulator and mask, he's taking some video games. The 35-year-old diver, who will... [18 May 2005]
Leader: Corporate ethics - don't pass the buck to IT
Leader Corporate IT departments are already overworked by the heavy burden that regulatory compliance legislation such as Sarbanes Oxley and Basel II has placed on them and don't need the pressure of spying on staff to add to... [10 Mar 2005]
High-tech peeping tom fined €4,000
News In January, Spanish police arrested a man suspected of writing a virus that was capable of spying on users through their web cams and also stealing online bank passwords. Spanish authorities have fined a student for... [01 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Buying secrets on eBay
Comment My feeling was that if either side was kept in the dark, the risk of them all going bang was much greater, so a bit of spying was rather a good thing. With personal information stored on computer hard drives so easy to... [22 Feb 2005]
Leader: Is one data leak one too many?
Leader The lives of Polish citizens have now been put at risk - their Prime Minister claims - by the publication of names of individuals linked by the secret police to spying commissions during the communist heyday of Poland. [08 Feb 2005]
Home Office calls for cybercrime shakeup
News The report said that seven out of the top 10 problems on the internet related to online paedophilia groups, and that technology was providing more opportunities for crimes such as spying and piracy. The government has... [14 Dec 2004]
eBay domain 'thief' evades charges... for now
News The teenager is likely to face charges of spying on data and computer sabotage, according to Frank Federau, a spokesman for the Lower Saxony police. A school pupil who admitted taking ownership of the eBay Germany domain... [09 Sep 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Spyware
Cheat Sheet What we're talking about here are software applications that find their way onto users' machines for the purposes of, as the name suggests, spying on them. OK, I've seen the Bond films, I know what spyware is. [29 Jul 2004]
5 years ago… Microsoft accused of stealing user information
News Similar instances in the ensuing five years are too plentiful to mention - though few have been as controversial as this with remiss coding, rather than spying, the most common accusation levelled at the Redmond giant. [08 Mar 2004]
