U.N. agency sees risks to privacy, security online
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Computer users who type in the same  username and password for multiple sites -- such as online  banks, travel agencies and booksellers -- are at serious risk  from identity thieves, a United Nations agency said on Sunday.
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Beijing - The United Nations must show it is tough enough to ensure the security of its members so that individual countries do not take measures into their own hands, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - An international conference opened Wednesday amid warnings that companies, governments and individuals are increasingly vulnerable to Internet attacks by terrorists, hackers and others that rob them of privacy, money, and secrets.
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If you buy things on the Web--or even just browse--you could be at risk from prying eyes and sloppy security. Some people want to change that.
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Human rights organisation Amnesty calls for tougher action against countries who seek to repress online freedoms.
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New York state's attorney general and legislative leaders introduce legislation to protect people online.
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The social networking Web site has agreed to include online protections and participate in a working group to develop age-verification technologies, according to an official familiar with the agreement.
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Now there are tools available online to safeguard against the theft of Social Security numbers.
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New Internet addresses, including those entirely in foreign languages, are under review by a key oversight agency, although meetings this week in Puerto Rico are likely to conclude with more questions.
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(InfoWorld) - Many of the security measures put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York are doing more harm than good, said two speakers scheduled to present at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) this week. The effect of many security measures put in place by governments after Sept. 11 has been to strengthen control over their citizens and erode democratic freedoms, said Roberto Preatoni, a security consultant who works in Italy. "The Internet allows you to do more effective things regarding controlling the population," he said. "Before, we were just being spied on," said Fabio Ghioni, vice president and security CTO of Telecom Italia. Now, governments are using psychological operations and technology to prey upon their citizens' fears and extend their own power, he said. "Technology makes it easier for us to be brainwashed, make us accept less and less freedom," Ghioni said. In some cases, the technology measures put in place by governments may put citizens at greater risk of attack from terrorists, Preatoni said. As an example, he cited a recent demonstration of how an RFID (radio-frequency identification) passport system being proposed by the U.S. State Department could be used by terrorists to construct a bomb designed to target U.S. citizens. In that demonstration, Flexilis, of Los Angeles, showed how an RFID passport that was left slightly open could be used to trigger a bomb equipped with an RFID reader. Flexilis proposed modifications to the design of the RFID passport that prevent this from happening. A video of the demonstration can beÂ viewed online here. Faced with the fear of terrorist attacks, the U.S. and Europe have been quick to give up freedoms in exchange for promises of protection from their governments, Ghioni said. In some cases, such as the U.S. Patriot Act, the provisions and implications of these protective measures are not adequately explained by governments or understood by their citizens, he said. Ghioni also questioned the scale of measures taken in recent years to respond to terrorism, noting that Europe has long faced the threat of attacks from groups such as the Red Brigade and the Irish Republican Army. "Look at the statistics. How many people in the West died of terrorism? How many people die from car accidents," he asked. HITB, in Kuala Lumpur, runs through Thursday, Sept. 21.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Organisations around the world are not protecting their information sufficiently against increasingly more potent threats, a new survey by Ernst &amp; Young has found.
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U.S. intelligence officials are cautioning that popular Internet services that enable computer users to adopt cartoon-like personas in three-dimensional online spaces also are creating security vulnerabilities by opening novel ways for terrorists and criminals to move money, organize and conduct...
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The portal's lapse tells a lot about the state of Web search privacy
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Swiss authorities have informed the United Nations of a possible threat against its European headquarters in Geneva, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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InfoWorld - Usernames and passwords for more than 100 e-mail accounts at embassies and governments worldwide have been posted online. Using the information, anyone can access the accounts that have been compromised.
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The United States is invading the privacy of the U.N. nuclear chief if it is eavesdropping on his phone calls, a nuclear agency official said Monday after media reports that Washington was collecting information to support its call for the chief's ouster.
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Government agents may soon find valuable information through an online-recommendation system like the one on Amazon.com: Spies who read this report, it might say, also found these reports useful.