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Online Crime Maps to Be Implemented in the UK

People who live in the UK, and by that we mean any and all neighborhoods in England and Wales, will have access to online maps that present the crime patterns in the particular place they live in, by the end of 2008. This is an initiative by the Home Secretary who reported earlier this month that the UK police force ...

29 July 2008
10:14 GMT

The Dark Knight's Fight Against Online Piracy

Since the core audience of the newly released Batman movie is made up mainly of tech savvy, PC oriented people, it became imperative for Warner Bros to enforce tight security measures so that a pirated copy of the movie would not leak out on the Internet and spoil the official launch. If a pirated copy were to hit th...

28 July 2008
03:26 GMT

Trustworthy Parents Unaware of Security Threats Related to Their Children

According to a recently issued report by Carpone Warehouse entitled "Mobile Life 2008", most UK parents are unaware of the dangers their children expose themselves to when going online. Parents believe they are fully aware of what their little ones are doing while sitting in front of the PC, and their children would ...

18 July 2008
09:33 GMT

E-mail Message Gets Woman Fired

Melanie Kroll, an employee of 1-800-Flowers.com, has recently lost her job because it seems that death threatening letters originated from her account. It seems that Melanie, or someone who had access to her account, sent Paul Myers an e-mail message demanding that he quit his job or have his "brains beat in". This i...

16 July 2008
07:12 GMT

Data Security Is the Management's Job

Recent security related events in the UK have proven that data security is not taken as seriously as it should be. Security software vendors and manufacturers try waging a never ending fight against spam, viruses and other types of malicious software, but data still isn't safe. According to the officials, the f...

11 July 2008
11:19 GMT

White House to Tighten E-Mail Security

The Presidential and Federal Records Act has been revised and updated by the US House of Representatives because recent events have proved that e-mail recording was a "bit" lax, leading to about 5 million lost e-mails a couple of months ago.Historic letters from the US' past are treated with the accurate respect...

11 July 2008
06:18 GMT

Data Security Talks Spurred in India after BlackBerry Scandal

The Indian authorities are very concerned about the fact that e-mail messages sent through BlackBerry devices cannot be intercepted and the encryption cannot be broken. Why would the Indian Government want access to such private information? It seems that this method of communication was recently used by militants a...

9 July 2008
09:16 GMT

US Government Accused of Exploiting Technology

The EFF (short for Electronic Frontier Foundation) and the ACLU (short for American Civil Liberties Union) have initiated legal action against the United States Government. The above mentioned organizations decided to sue the federal government after the Freedom of Information request that was filed last year went u...

3 July 2008
12:32 GMT


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