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AT&T privacy policy overreaches, lawyers say
A recent change to AT&T's privacy policy for broadband and video users has been labeled overbroad by legal experts, and likely will leave the courts or Congress to decide whether the company's practices are standard or sinister. 2006-06-30 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11398 USB drives pose insider threat Workers are more wary of putting giveaway CDs in their company's computers, but USB flash drives are another story. 2006-06-25 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11397 SCADA industry debates flaw disclosure Vulnerability researchers bring in US-CERT to referee the outing of an infrastructure bug, ruffling feathers as vendors and researchers clash over how disclosure should be handled. Sound familiar? 2006-06-16 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11396 Researchers eye machines to analyze malware Automated classification of malicious software could make recognition of threats faster and names more consistent, but researchers cannot agree on what such a system should look like. 2006-06-08 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11395 Cybersecurity contests go national America's heartland has become an incubator for competitions pitting high-school and college students against teams of hackers in defense of a corporate network. 2006-06-01 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11394 Veterans Affairs warns of massive privacy breach The records of nearly 26.5 million veterans--including names, social security numbers and dates of birth--were stolen from the home of a federal employee. 2006-05-22 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11393 Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath Under threat of further attacks on its service and users, an Israeli anti-spam startup decides to shutter its service. 2006-05-17 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11392 Diebold voting systems critically flawed Concerns raised by a rural county in Utah helped an electronic voting watchdog discover a critical vulnerability in Diebold Election Systems' touchscreen terminal--a flaw that state election officials and security experts warn could pose a risk to elections. 2006-05-12 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11391 Bot software looks to improve peerage Threatened by investigators' ability to tap into chat-based command-and-control networks, bot masters increasingly look to peer-to-peer communications, encryption and other technologies to hide their tracks. 2006-05-02 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11390 Breach case could curtail Web flaw finders Security researchers and legal experts voice concern over the prosecution of an information-technology professional for computer intrusion after he allegedly breached a university's online application system while researching a flaw without the school's permission. 2006-04-26 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11389 |
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