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Buy.com Security Advisory: Customer Data Exposed Due to Website Flaw

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A security hole on buy.com's website exposed the personal information of customers who returned products to the company. For several hours on Thursday, the buy.com website allowed determined visitors to peruse the names, addresses, and phone numbers of customers. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2000

Exploring Spyware Threats To Internet Privacy And User Security

It might be called "The Spy Who Came in from the Code," and the latest Internet privacy flap would surely give novelist John le Carre a run for his plotline. In recent months, a new breed of advertisement-laden software has drawn . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 12, 2000

Congressional Debate on Internet Privacy Standards and Legislation

Lawmakers supportive of Internet privacy laws said Wednesday they would take an issue-by-issue approach next year rather than push for sweeping legislation. They also said the government should set higher standards of privacy for its Web sites. Lawmakers testifying at . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 12, 2000

EPIC Critiques FBI's Limited Carnivore Data Release on Privacy Concerns

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington charged that the FBI's first release of documents on its Carnivore Internet surveillance system last week doesn't include enough information to evaluate the technology for possible privacy violations.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 09, 2000

DigitalConvergence Faces Challenges With CueCat Use by Hobbyists

DigitalConvergence's lawyers have sent ``notification of infringement'' letters to several gadget-happy techies who aim to use the CueCat for things such as inventorying book or CD collections, tracking packages or simply making them usable on the Linux operating system. DigitalConvergence officials . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 06, 2000

EPIC Lawsuit: Government Surveillance and FOIA Documents Overview

These documents have been released through a lawsuit EPIC filed against the FBI and the Department of Justice. The next installment of Carnivore documents is scheduled to be released to EPIC in mid-November. More information on EPIC's lawsuit is available at<the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 05, 2000

Carnivore Surveillance System: Examining Civil Liberties Risks

So much for the hope that an independent review would settle privacy worries about the FBI's new system for snooping on e-mail. Two months after grudgingly agreeing to let outside authorities decide whether the Internet eavesdropping program named Carnivore endangers civil . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 05, 2000

FBI's Carnivore Data Release Sparks Outcry Over Privacy and Legal Issues

The FBI released the first documents about its controversial Carnivore email surveillance software on Tuesday, but more than half of the 750 pages were blacked out and hundreds more were withheld. The Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) filed . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 04, 2000

Key Considerations For Ensuring Your Organization's Data Safety

One of the fundamental questions that every organization is presented with on a day-to-day basis is, "Is my data safe?" It's a really good question because the consequences of not knowing can be detrimental to your company. I hate the term, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 04, 2000

EPIC Raises Concerns Over FBI's Carnivore Document Release

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which sued the FBI for the information through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), complained that the 565-page release contains little relevant information. According to a press release issued by the Washington-based group, nearly 200 pages were withheld in full and about 400 pages were redacted, many completely except for the page numbers. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 03, 2000

Congress Examines Illinois Institute's Review of FBI Carnivore Surveillance

The Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute has barely begun its review of Carnivore, an electronic-surveillance system being used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but already a Congressional leader is branding the review a "sham.". . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 02, 2000

Impact of Data Tracking on User Privacy and Internet Behavior

Online, you are your data dossier. Most computer users don't realize that Internet businesses are compiling data about them and their Web-surfing history and habits. Even those who are aware of the tactics would be dazed by the sheer bulk of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 02, 2000

Justice Department's IIT Review of Carnivore System Raises Privacy Issues

The Justice Department on Tuesday tapped IIT Research Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit contract research and development group, to carry out a technical review of its controversial "Carnivore" e-mail surveillance system.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 27, 2000

E-Trade Critical Flaw: Customer Account Access Risk Identified

A freelance Internet security expert said he found a potential cybernightmare in online broker E-Trade Group's Internet operations -- a programming flaw that could have given hackers easy access to customer accounts.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2000

Innovative Speech Recognition On Smartcard Enhances Transaction Security

A small UK company has created a speech recognition system that can fit comfortably on a smartcard and do its job using nothing more than the humble processing power of the chip on the card.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2000

Privacy Events Summary and Government Legislation Insights

MSNBC has put together a summary of the most significant events to affect privacy on the net in the last week or two. It covers Carnivore, a GeoCities faux pas, ACLU and wiretap issues, government and net privacy bills, and more. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2000

Robert Graham Discusses Altivore and Cybersecurity Challenges

An interview with Network ICE CEO Robert Graham. "Graham released to the general public the source code to "Altivore," a program that mimics all the capabilities of Carnivore. Part protest against Carnivore's potential for invasions of privacy and part defensive measure . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2000

:CueCat Bar Code Reader Privacy Concerns and Evaluation

Here's a good overall summary of the :CueCat issues. "The Privacy Foundation recently completed a technical evaluation of the :CueCat bar code reader. This handheld device, which is similar in appearance to a computer mouse, is a product of Digital:Convergence Corp. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 22, 2000

Senate Guide to Privacy Protection Tools for Online Users

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Orrin Hatch on Wednesday touted identity scrubbers, self-destructing e-mail and other online privacy protection tools, as an alternative to stepped-up policing of the Web. Releasing a consumer guide to state-of-the-art methods of curbing personal data giveaways, the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 22, 2000

Create An Email Sniffer Using Network Ice's Altivore Code

Just so you know what a carpet-soiling, leg-humping snippy little lapdog the FBI's Carnivore really is, firewall outfit Network Ice has hacked out a bit of C source code called 'Altivore', enabling anyone to cobble up an e-mail sniffer with virtually the same underwhelming capabilities and based on the same principles. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 21, 2000

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