VeriSign will soon be offering its wire tapping services for a monthly fee. NetDiscovery will allow telcos to comply with court ordered wire taps. Meanwhile, the NSA are hard at work trying to wiretap fibre optic cables
The Securities and Exchange Commission have said that Microsoft violated federal securities law by using improper bookkeeping to understate its earnings by as much as $900 million over a four-year period
US forensic expert Andrew Rosen, the computer scientist who extracted crucial deleted data for the Enron investigation, has donated his company’s Linux-based forensic software, the Storage Media Archival and Recovery Tool — SMART — to NSW Police
The Source, an Australian government web site, has been spamming people multiple times, despite the site’s privacy policy stating it won’t use e-mail addresses without the owner’s consent
E-Store has admitted it has a backlog of unfulfilled orders following a rolling succession of lost telecommunications services during its recent move of premises
In the wake of OzEmail’s entry into the broadband market, and Telstra’s broadband advertising campaign, iPrimus has dropped the pricing on its Jetstream ADSL offerings by as much as 28 percent, for the second time this year
The Bivings Group, a PR company contracted to Monsanto, invented fake citizens to post messages on internet listservers. These phantoms had launched a campaign to force Nature magazine to retract a paper it had published, alleging that native corn in Mexico had been contaminated with GM pollen
A hacking contest that promised US$100,000 as first prize appears to have been weighted so heavily against competitors that some decided to hack the competition rather than the target server
When Jakob Nielsen, a well-known online usability expert, conducted a study on how children up to the age of 12 use the Internet, he came across a surprising finding: namely that the vast majority of them couldn’t tell the difference between content and advertising online
Yet another step closer to the universal translator: NEC has announced trials of software for your PDA that listens to spoken English and Japanese phrases, translates them, and re-speaks them in the other language — via Slashdot
The European Parliament has voted to ban spam by adopting the opt-in
system for unsolicited commercial e-mail, finally freeing the way for the entry into force of a European Parliament and Council directive concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector
French direct-broadcast satellite company Canal Plus alleges that NDS, a company owned by News Corp — which also owns BSkyB — Canal Plus’s biggest competitor in Europe — hacked the smart cards used by Canal Plus and published the hacks on the Internet — via Slashdot
Rob McEwen owned an underperforming gold mine in north-western Ontario, and he needed new ideas about where to dig. So he broke new ground — and made data on the mine available online to anyone who wanted to help. Eureka! The Internet gold rush was on
Perth-based spammer, T3 Direct, is suing Joseph McNichol, an anti-spam advocate, after being blacklisted by a spam prevention web site spews.org, in what is believed to be a first of its kind case world-wide and one that could end up bigger than Ben Hur
DARPA are working on Project Babylon, an attempt to create a portable, two-way, real-time, multi-lingual audible speech translator proposed to be run on everything from PDAs to wearable military hardware to workstations
The Philadelphia court has officially overturned the Children’s Internet Protection Act, the law that required blocking software to be installed in all libraries that receive federal funds
An FBI anti-terrorism investigation possibly involving Osama bin Laden was hampered by technical flaws in the Bureau’s controversial Carnivore Internet surveillance system. The incident, which occurred in March 2000, is described in newly-released FBI documents obtained under court order by the Electronic Privacy Information Centre. A written report describes the incident as part of a ‘pattern’ indicating ‘an inability on the part of the FBI to manage’ its foreign intelligence surveillance activities
Former tennis star Steffi Graf won a court case against Microsoft Germany on Tuesday over fake nude photos of her that were posted on a Web site run by the company
Esphion’s anti-denial of service attack tool performed well for the armed forces of five nations. The Auckland company was the only private sector organisation invited to last week’s Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration that attended. The Echelon boys will be well pleased by the result
The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association has officially launched a campaign to stem mobile phone theft, which could lead to changes in both the Telecommunications Act and the Crimes Act
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