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EU Opens Public Consultation on RFID Technology and Privacy Concerns

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Fears about new Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID), have prompted the EU to open a public consultation process. The commission has been holding discussions with government agencies and the private sector since March based on general themes of standardising RFID frequencies and formats across Europe, but now the emphasis has changed slightly to inform citizens on how the technology can improve quality of life without encroaching on individual privacy issues. With this in mind, the commission has initiated an online public consultation on its 'Your Voice in Europe' website.

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The EFF's Advocacy for Protecting Digital Rights and User Privacy

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In March 1990, when few people had even heard of the internet, U.S. Secret Service agents raided the Texas offices of a small board-game maker, seizing computer equipment and reading customers' e-mail stored on one machine. A group of online pioneers already worried about how the nation's laws were being applied to new technologies became even more fearful and decided to intervene. And thus the Electronic Frontier Foundation was born -- 16 years ago this Monday -- taking on the Secret Service as its first case, one the EFF ultimately won when a judge agreed that the government had no right to read the e-mails or keep the equipment.

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Ensuring Your Personal Information Stays Safe on P2P Networks

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June 23, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Users of peer-to-peer file-sharing services may be sharing more than they bargained for, a former White House cybersecurity adviser warned Thursday. Security researchers have found thousands of files with sensitive information by searching through file-sharing networks, said Howard Schmidt, CEO of R&H Security Consulting LLC. Schmidt, who has also worked as chief security officer for Microsoft Corp., made the comments during an SDForum seminar in Palo Alto, Calif., on Thursday.

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CIMIP: New Center For Identity Theft Research And Consumer Data Protection

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Utica College and Lexis-Nexis announced on Wednesday that they had teamed up with the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service as well as other universities to establish a center for researching identity theft and developing measures to protect consumer data. Utica College promised that the research hub, dubbed the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP), will bring together experts, allow access to sensitive data and produce actionable strategies for combating identity fraud. Other founding members include the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University, Syracuse University, and IBM.

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NSA Surveillance Insights From EFF Analysis of AT&T Documents

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It's not surprising that an expert hired by EFF should produce an analysis that supports the group's case against AT&T. But last week's public court filing of a redacted statement by J. Scott Marcus is still worth reading for the obvious expertise of its author, and the cunning insights he draws from the AT&T spy documents. An internet pioneer and former FCC advisor who held a Top Secret security clearance, Marcus applies a Sherlock Holmes level of reasoning to his dissection of the evidence in the case: 120-pages of AT&T manuals that EFF filed under seal, and whistleblower Mark Klein's observations inside the company's San Francisco switching center.

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Exploring Anti-Spam Techniques: Challenges in Cybersecurity

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In this article will we first look at some of the existing methods to identify an email as a spam? We look at the pros and cons of the existing methods and what are the current challenges in this domain. This article also needs a special mention to Paul Graham, for his wok in this field and putting up perhaps the most comprehensive tutorials in this domain on his homepage. I am sure that each one of us has faced this problem of spamming. Every morning when I open my inbox I spend most of the time either deleting the junk emails or reporting them as spam.

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Exploring the Rising Identity Theft Risks from P2P Tools

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Cyber-criminals are multiplying quickly and becoming more sophisticated in the ways in which they take advantage of unwitting Internet individual users and companies, a nationally recognized cyber-security specialist told an SD Forum seminar audience June 22. And peer-to-peer networks such as Limewire, Kazaa, Grokster and others aren't helping to quell the increase in crimes committed via the Internet, he said. "It used to be only burglaries from people's homes and businesses," said Howard Schmidt, a former cyber-security adviser to the Bush administration, former chief information security officer at Microsoft and eBay, and now a principal in R&H Security Consulting in Issaquah, Wash.

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Blended SMS Phishing Attack And Malware Download Warning

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Criminals have launched a blended attack which attempts to lure users to a malicious Web site via text message. IT managers have been warned to alert their staff to the attack, which uses social engineering techniques to try to trick users to the phishing site, according to security vendor Websense. Users are sent an SMS text message to their mobile phone, thanking them for subscribing to a fictitious dating service. The message states that they will be automatically charged a subscription fee of $2.00 per day, which will be added to their phone bill, until their subscription is cancelled at the online site.

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EFF vs. AT&T: Government Surveillance Lawsuit in San Francisco Court

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On Friday, June 23, at 9:30 a.m., a federal judge in San Francisco will hear oral arguments on the U.S. government's motion to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against AT&T. EFF's suit accuses the telecom giant of collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in illegal spying on millions of ordinary Americans. The government contends that even if the NSA program is illegal, the lawsuit should not go forward because it might expose state secrets.

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Strengthening Skype User Authentication for Improved IT Security Measures

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Skype plans to address the concerns of some IT managers by improving its identity authentication process. Part of Skype's "wish list" for further expansion into the business market is to enhance username authentication for business customers, the voice over Internet Protocol company said Wednesday. "There's a lot of leverage space in the identity segment," Kurt Sauer, chief security officer for Skype, told ZDNet UK.

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Assessing Risks Posed by Long-Range RFID Skimming Devices Today

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Radio-Frequency Identifier (RFID) technology, using the ISO-14443 standard, is becoming increasingly popular, with applications like credit-cards, national-ID cards, E-passports, and physical access control. The security of such applications is clearly critical. A key feature of RFID-based systems is their very short range: Typical systems are designed to operate at a range of 5-10cm. Despite this very short nominal range, Kfir and Wool predicted that a rogue device can communicate with an ISO-14443 RFID tag from a distance of 40-50cm, based on modeling and simulations. Moreover, they claimed that such a device can be made portable, with low power requirements, and can be built very cheaply. Such a device can be used as a stand-alone RFID skimmer, to surreptitiously read the contents of simple RFID tags. The same device can be as the ``leech'' part of a relay-attack system, by which an attacker can make purchases using a victim's RFID-enhanced credit card--despite any cryptographic protocols that may be used.

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Exploring Privacy Risks From Data Brokers Used By Law Enforcement

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Police and government officals in the U.S. have been bypassing the need for subpoenas and warrants by gathering personal information made available through private data brokers. The data brokers, which advertise heavily on the Internet, have at times admitted to using deception and illegal practices themselves, according to a new report by the Associated Press. Law enforcement agencies including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. Marshal's Service, and local police in various states have been using data brokers to obtain detailed personal phone records, credit histories, and other information on their suspects. The records are often obtained much faster and more easily than using the standard subpoena and warrant process - often taking hours rather than days or weeks. While the data brokers normally charge customers for the information, it is believe that law enforcement agencies are rarely charged for this service.

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Understanding Email Headers: Essential Guide to Spoofing Detection

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This document is intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to the behavior of email headers. It is primarily intended to help victims of unsolicited email ("email spam") attempting to determine the real source of the (generally forged) email that plagues them; it should also help in attempts to understand any other forged email. It may also be beneficial to readers interested in a general-purpose introduction to mail transfer on the Internet. Although the document intentionally avoids "how-to-forge" discussions, some of the information contained in it might be turned to that purpose by a sufficiently determined mind. The author explicitly does not endorse malicious or deceptive falsification of email, of course, and any use for such purposes of the information contained in this document is contrary to its purpose.

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Manage and Eliminate Spam With Effective Email Strategies

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Industry analysts estimate that spam currently accounts for close to 80 percent of email messages sent and causes close to £5 billion in economic losses annually. The problem with spam is very similar to that of pollution: spammers profit from their activity at the expense of the rest of the population, just like polluters of the environment profit while annoying or endangering others.

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