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You think you've got spam problems with a hundred or so spam messages a day? Try being an ISP or a business where on a good day you don't get more than a one hundred thousand spam mails a day. . .
While analysts say radio-frequency identification tags don't work well enough to replace UPC codes, and costs are still prohibitively expensive, some technology companies, retailers and government entities remain determined to infuse RFID into daily consumer life.. . .
When Lew Wagner, chief information security officer of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, began to build a business case for investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in technology to help thwart spam and viruses, he took . . .
In a historic first, a California court has fined an Internet marketing company $2 million for sending millions of unsolicited junk e-mails. The case was brought against PW Marketing, a Los Angeles-based Internet advertising company owned by Paul Willis and . . .
The ability to govern access to emails and other documents might create more problems than solutions. Microsoft technology designed to allow greater control over documents and emails could create security and privacy headaches for IT managers.. . .
A privacy group hired a skywriter to write part of the Social Security number of Citigroup's chief executive above New York City on Friday, protesting the bank's lobbying efforts to keep lawmakers from tightening privacy regulations and demonstrating that even the privacy of bank executives is at risk.. . .
A government watchdog group Wednesday accused the Justice Department of improperly censoring portions of a key report on internal workplace diversity, after online activists successfully unmasked the blacked-out portions of an electronic copy of the document. . .
It starts out innocently enough. You're browsing the Web, dreaming of the weekend and your next golf game, and you happen across a great-looking site that promises to drop your handicap in three easy lessons. Sounds good, but you've got . . .
Spam has become a real problem these days. The more people who know your e-mail address, the more unwanted pieces of mail you receive. If you used your e-mail to register on some Web sites or publish a few articles in . . .
Anti-spam activists have won an important legal battle against Florida-based junk mailers. But even though Florida Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks dismissed the case brought by eMarketersAmerica.org with prejudice (i.e. ruling that the lawsuit was without any foundation), anti-spam groups still . . .
With spam blocking companies trying to ward off the latest advances, spammers are making strenuous attempts to get around e-mail filters. Their latest ploy: Spam with subject lines that read ^G.et^ a BUL"KY 'PO;L`E or `Extend y:ou^r r;od` ^easy'. Say again? . . .
The relentless drive for more intrusive technology to help improve security may result in a society that is less secure, warned Al Gore, former vice president of the U.S., speaking Tuesday at the Carnahan Conference on Security Technology in Taipei.. . .
The report entitled "Security and Privacy for the Citizen in the Post-September 11 Digital Age: A Prospective Overview" focuses on the potential threats to security and privacy of three particular technologies. They are identity management, such as on-line services that require . . .
Bulk emailers are digitally signing unsolicited messages in hopes of bypassing popular filtering programs, but updated software has been modified to detect the trick. The trick was noted on several security lists, as the number of junk email messages sporting . . .
Last month at the International Business Law Services (IBLS) Strategic Global Summit for E-Commerce, Pauline Reich, an associate professor at Waseda University School of Law in Tokyo, Japan, gave a speech entitled "Legal Issues: Internet and E-mail in the Workplace." Reich . . .
Call them spackers -- they're the new breed of computer crackers who earn a living in cahoots with spammers. The latest innovations developed by such mercenary hackers on behalf of the junk e-mail profession are techniques that enable spammers -- . . .
Spammers are becoming more intelligent and more difficult to detect, which is a strange issue, just because in my opinion, an intelligent person is smart enough for not bothering millions of people. So, why these people keep on helping unethical . . .
A high-profile digital civil liberties group is criticizing a component of the "trusted computing" technology promoted by Microsoft, IBM and other technology companies, calling the feature a threat to computer users.. . .
It is particularly difficult to bolt a single sign-on solution -- SSO, the ability to log in once and be authenticated to all your network resources -- onto existing applications, but every developer faces this problem when building sophisticated portals. Because . . .
I hate spam. You hate spam. We all hate spam. But none of us hate spam as much as ISPs and business network administrators do. Alexis Rosen, president and co-owner of Public Access Networks, which runs Panix, one of the oldest . . .
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