snooping
RSS snoopingUK web snooping plans: Full steam ahead
News The UK government has confirmed it intends to push ahead with plans to monitor the UK's communications. Under the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), the government wants communications service providers to store details of all... [11 Nov 2009]
Cisco wireless LAN: At risk from 'skyjack' attack
News To mitigate against any attacks, Cisco customers should disable the OTAP feature and use a separate intrusion detection system that can detect whether someone is snooping on the network, as well as monitor that all... [25 Aug 2009]
NHS records, Google and Microsoft: Where do you want your data?
Comment How will these companies manage to strike the tricky balance between easy access for millions of patients and healthcare staff and stopping unauthorised users snooping on records? Seven years into the project and the... [07 Jul 2009]
Web snooping plans unworkable, say critics
News A government plan to allow the intelligence services to monitor all UK web communications is technologically impossible, according to experts from the London School of Economics. The Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) calls for... [18 Jun 2009]
Attack Prevention Technology White Paper
White Paper It includes the attack prevention function allows a firewall to detect network attacks including Denial of Service (DoS), scanning and snooping, and malformed packet attacks. This paper introduces the common network... [11 Jun 2009]
Inbox: Chip and PIN latest big IDea - and still no readers
Comment By 2011 this snooping Labour government will be a thing of the past and both other main parties have already promised to get rid of ID cards and the database. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most... [20 Apr 2009]
Facebook slams gov't snooping plans
News Social-networking site Facebook has criticised government suggestions that intelligence services should monitor the web communications of all UK citizens. Facebook chief privacy officer and head of global public policy, Chris Kelly, told... [25 Mar 2009]
Inbox: Underground safe from mobile chatter
Comment I agree snooping and opening the payload is bad but not all DPI does that. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. A silicon.com... [23 Mar 2009]
Berners-Lee slams DPI: "We must not snoop on the internet"
News The government's desire to know all about us may be hampering it doing anything about others who are snooping," he said. The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has attacked deep packet inspection (DPI),... [12 Mar 2009]
Airlines fear delays from snooping tech
News Fliers face possible disruption from plans to begin electronic tracking of every journey into the UK during one of the busiest holiday periods of the year, the UK airline industry has warned. Home Office plans to begin using the £1.2bn... [11 Feb 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News Citing instances where councils have spied on citizens when investigating littering, the report says that any victims of "unlawful surveillance" by a local authority should receive compensation and that local authority... [06 Feb 2009]
£12bn snooping database disappears from Queen's speech
News A snooping database of all UK communications data was put on the backburner after draft legislation failed to appear in today's Queen's speech. The Communications Data Bill was pushed back by the Home Office to allow... [03 Dec 2008]
Inbox: ID guinea pigs, snooping database and CIO standards
Comment The Home Secretary has stressed the need for even greater snooping powers for government. Snooping database has to happen says gov't The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking... [17 Oct 2008]
Snooping database has to happen says gov't
News The Home Secretary has stressed the need for even greater snooping powers for government. In a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research Commission today, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the introduction of new... [15 Oct 2008]
Bandwidth Adaptive Snooping
White Paper They propose Bandwidth Adaptive Snooping Hybrid (BASH), a hybrid protocol that ranges from behaving like snooping (by broadcasting requests) when excess bandwidth is available to behaving like a... [19 Sep 2008]
