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Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News Nicholas Bohm, the FIPR's general counsel, said last week "the illegality stems… from the fact that the system intercepts internet traffic". The Home Office] gave an opinion, not a legal opinion, of their understanding of how the law was [to be... [11 Apr 2008]
Cisco grabs IronPort for $830m
News Cisco will get a sender-based email reputation platform, while IronPort plans to expand its reputation based approach into the IP reputation of web server traffic. Cisco plans to expand its product range by integrating technologies from IronPort... [05 Jan 2007]
US to restrict high-tech exports to China?
News At the same time, the new approach is designed to streamline the process by which US companies traffic in those goods with Chinese businesses, McCormick said. The new policy appears to deal exclusively with China and not other countries for which... [12 Jun 2006]
Is VoIP the cyber criminal's new best friend?
News Moreover, because many voice over IP applications use proprietary technology and encrypted data traffic that can't easily be monitored, the attackers will be able to go undetected. Investigators monitor those channels to help catch cyber criminals... [26 Jan 2006]
Is VoIP drilling holes in your network?
News Voice over IP, where voice calls are broken up into packets and passed around a corporate network together with the organisation's data traffic, can provide enormous benefits for companies - such as cheaper international calls - but they also... [23 Sep 2005]
US fires up RFID immigration border trial
News The tests are under way at land ports in Arizona, New York and Washington state - selected for their variety of weather and traffic conditions - and will continue until early next summer. The trouble is, generous exemptions for Mexican and Canadian... [09 Aug 2005]
Koreans plan giant open-source project
News A conclusion is that Linux can deal with [all the] traffic generated from dedicated servers of NEIS at a lower cost," Jung Yong-Kyun, a NEIS consulting manager of Bearing Point Korea, said. The concept of 'open source for NEIS' is based on the... [23 Aug 2004]
Big Brother points the finger at US government and Vodafone
News The Department of Transport is in with a shout, though, for its work on the electronic vehicle identification (EVI) scheme, under which cars will be fitted with an electronic chip that would report traffic offences to the authorities. [05 Jul 2004]
Spammers 'know where YOU live'
News The volume of spam has increased dramatically over the past two years, so much so that some security companies say the majority of email traffic is now spam. She said there is no way for a company to completely protect itself without disrupting... [29 Jun 2004]
Alliance plans to stem tide of spam
News The group also advocated that ISPs detect and shut off internet traffic from "zombie" machines - hijacked consumer PCs used to send millions of unwanted email messages every day. ASTA's proposal also said that ISPs should implement rate limits on... [23 Jun 2004]
VeriSign settles deception case
News Just last week, the company came under intense criticism for redirecting web traffic to unassigned domains to its own web page. Other Network Solutions marketing controversies include the auctioning off of domain names it later withdrew after... [25 Sep 2003]
VeriSign holds firm on 404 scrap
News Because VeriSign will become a central destination for mistyped email and web traffic, its move also raises serious privacy questions. VeriSign's new policy is intended to generate more advertising revenue from additional visitors to its network of... [23 Sep 2003]
Standards group takes aim at spam
News According to spam-fighter Brightmail, unsolicited bulk mail volumes skyrocketed last year, now accounting for close to a third of all traffic on the internet, up from just eight per cent in mid-2001. The new group is an open research body without... [06 Mar 2003]
Router holes 'threaten the internet'
News Using such digital forgery could allow an attacker to redirect traffic, to wiretap data, to create an information "black hole" and even to masquerade as another server, Dugan said. The security and continued functioning of the internet will be... [03 Mar 2003]
NT gets stay of execution from Microsoft
News NT 4's support extension comes as Microsoft SQL Server database customers battle a fast-spreading worm that choked internet traffic over the weekend. The extension of NT 4's support period could be an important move from a security policy decision. [28 Jan 2003]
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