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Fifteen Dutch Nightclubs Testing Biometric Security Systems

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Fifteen nightclubs in the Netherlands are now testing a system of face scanners, fingerprint scanners and smartcards that will be used to identify and possibly turn away certain patrons. The system targets not rap stars and their bodacious girlfriends, but repeated troublemakers.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2000

Geotracking Effects On Advertising And User Privacy Concerns

New technology that can pinpoint the physical location of Web surfers is creating opportunities for online merchants and advertisers but could signal new restrictions on the free-wheeling Internet. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2000

Exploring Digital Forensics in Corporate Employee Investigations

Moving beyond merely monitoring employees' Internet use, many of the nation's largest companies quietly are assembling teams of computer investigators who specialize in covertly copying employees' hard drives and combing them for evidence of workplace wrongdoing. These high-tech investigators employ tools . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 06, 2000

Discover Anonymous Shopping Tools And Enhanced Online Security

The Internet's first anonymous shopping tools are going live this fall. These are various virtual masks that cloak people's credit-card numbers -- and, in some cases, their real names and addresses -- from the prying eyes of online merchants. At the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 06, 2000

Government Bill Proposes Internet Filtering in Schools and Libraries

Although the government spending bill carrying a clause requiring Internet filtering on school and library computers that are federally funded is wrapped up in partisan melees, the White House and Republican lawmakers appear to have reached common ground on the filtering . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 02, 2000

Investigating Employee Surveillance With Computer Forensics Practices

Moving beyond merely monitoring employees' Internet use, many of the nation's largest companies are quietly assembling teams of computer investigators who specialize in covertly copying employees' hard drives and combing them for evidence of workplace wrongdoing. These high-tech investigators employ tools . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 31, 2000

Bank One Online Critical Risk: Customer Card Exposure Advisory

Customer credit card numbers of Bank One Online are at risk of exposure to malicious hackers, an Internet security group charged Tuesday. The Web site of the fourth-largest U.S. bank lets customers in most cities check their accounts by entering a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 25, 2000

Net Privacy Bill Aims To Enhance Individual Identity Protection

The legislation began as an effort to protect people like Amy Boyer, a New Hampshire woman who was slain by a man who tracked her down after buying her Social Security number on the Internet.In May, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) proposed . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 25, 2000

New Email Regulations Allow Employers To Access Staff Communications

Starting today employers can read workers' email without their consent, but heavyweights including the IoD want changes From Tuesday, new regulations give employers the power to eavesdrop on the email communications of their staff, a legal shift . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2000

Zero-Knowledge Freedom 2.0: Enhance Anonymity for Linux Users

Privacy technology firm Zero-Knowledge Systems announced that it had released the code to the Linux version of its privacy software, Freedom 2.0, Monday. Freedom is a client for a network that allows users to browse anonymously. Not even . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2000

Modern Data Protection Challenges: Navigating Privacy Concerns

There's a lot of sound and fury these days about privacy and the Net -- about how your privacy is going to be seriously compromised soon, if it's not already; about how innovations in cell phones and global positioning satellite systems . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2000

FBI's Enhanced Carnivore Tool: Internet Surveillance Update

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is still developing its Carnivore Internet surveillance tool, according to FBI documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The FBI is now creating "Enhanced Carnivore" under a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2000

Comparing CIA Surveillance Tool Against Carnivore's Capabilities

J. Oquendo contributes: "With the inception of the F.B.I.'s Carnivore, many people have overlooked the fact the C.I.A. is unleashing a tool which makes Carnivore a lightweight contender on the security intervention scene." The article says "watch for more . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2000

FBI Carnivore Email Surveillance And Its Privacy Implications

Carnivore, the FBI's controversial email snooping program, is part of covert surveillance triad known inside the bureau as the "DragonWare Suite", according to recently declassified documents. The documents also outline how the DragonWare Suite is more than . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2000

Civil Liberty Groups Oppose Expanded Surveillance Authority Treaty

WASHINGTON -- Civil liberty groups are vexed over a proposed treaty that would grant more surveillance powers to U.S. and European police agencies, and expand copyright crimes. Thirty groups -- from North America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe -- said . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2000

Bush And Gore Have Conflicting Views On Internet Privacy Laws

Both major presidential candidates believe that more must be done to protect Internet privacy, but they differ on exactly what should be done, their campaign representatives said Monday. Privacy hasn't been an issue in the presidential debates, despite surveys showing consumers . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2000

EarthLink Open Source Flaw: 81,000 Domains Exposed to Defacement

A one-two punch of poor security left up to 81,000 domains hosted by Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. open to defacement and exploitation for at least a week, ZDNet News learned on Tuesday. The vulnerability resulted from a recently discovered flaw . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 17, 2000

Kevin Mitnick Suggests Central Biometric Database To Prevent Identity Theft

Should the Government establish a central database that uses biometric identifiers such as DNA to make sure you're who you say you are? Hacker Kevin Mitnick thinks so. "I think the government has to establish some sort of central database that . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 16, 2000

FBI's Carnivore System: Development Of Future Surveillance Tech

The FBI says its controversial Carnivore system is just "the tip of the iceberg" when it comes to Internet surveillance because an even sharper-toothed information chomper is now in development. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 16, 2000

Richard Smith Advocating For Internet Security And Privacy Standards

Richard Smith has dedicated himself to demanding high security and privacy standards of Internet companies. A veteran computer programmer, Smith knows how information collected through technology can be manipulated in ways the developer never intended. Currently the chief technology officer at . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2000

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