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Net Users Need Understanding—Not More Regulation

Where do we get our ideas of whats smart and whats stupid to do? That question largely inspired this months Youth Summit for Online...

Financial Firms Fight Back Against Phishing

Executives at financial institutions are frustrated—very frustrated. Who can blame them? Theyve spent tons of time and energy building their online infrastructures and the publics...

HP Names New PSG Head

Hewlett-Packard Co., five months after combining its PC and printing businesses, last week separated the two and appointed a new head to the PC...

Hannover Shifts Notes Course

IBM is developing a next-generation Lotus Notes client that incorporates many of the rich-client features of the companys Lotus Workplace offering and may ultimately...

We Need a Spyware Law

Spyware has rapidly advanced from a minor nuisance to a serious problem, meriting the attention of the courts and Congress. In our coverage this...

Identity Theft: An Inside Job

Companies that engage in financial transactions are bound by law to establish and enforce information security programs to prevent identity theft. However, current laws...

Advertisers Leery of Marketers Methods

With two anti-spyware bills gaining passage in the U.S. House of Representatives, Beltway observers say the chances for some kind of anti-spyware law being...

Bank of America Lays Groundwork

Although future server-to-server authentication and authorization dominated the discussion at the recent Inbox conference, Bank of America Corp., based in Charlotte, N.C., is moving...

Drive-By Download Sites Chauffeur Spyware

Increasingly, spyware is making its way onto users systems through so-called drive-by-download sites using nefarious methods that circumvent disclosure. One example is iFrameDollars.biz, which claims...

New 10 Gigabit Ethernet Products Bring HPC to the Enterprise

Vendors are expanding on the 10 Gigabit Ethernet offerings available to customers.Myricom Inc. and startup Level 5 Networks Inc. on Monday are both introducing...