The U.S. And E.U. Avoid A Mid-Air Collision -- Or Did They Just Postpone It?
The European Union has approved a new agreement to share airline passenger data with U.S. law enforcement authorities. The deal settles, for now, a legal dispute that could have halted or at least seriously disrupted, trans-Atlantic flights between Europe ...
State to issue notice on passport cards
State Department officials will be issuing a Notice of Proposed Rule Making next week that lays out the architecture of a smart card that would be used under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). Frank Moss, the department's deputy assistant s...
NCR"s RFID for branch banking initiative raises eyebrows
I"d intended to use this issue to kick off a discussion on identity and anonymity and explore why anonymity might be useful, if there could be truly anonymous transactions online, the context of anonymity, and so on. We will get to that real soon, but whil...
FBI Director, Police Chiefs Support Record Retention For Internet
FBI Director Robert Mueller said he supports a plan requiring Internet service providers to retain information on users" Internet activities. In a speech before the International Association of Chiefs of Police on Tuesday, Mueller praised law enforcement...
Man Indicted In Dollar Tree ATM Fraud Case - Hundreds Of Customers Reported Money Stolen
A Southern California man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for alleged bank fraud involving hundreds of customers of Dollar Tree stores. Authorities said Parkev Krmoian is accused of using counterfeit ATM cards to make unauthorized withdrawals. ...
Ten security trends worth watching
In a keynote speech that was webcast at last month"s Hack in the Box Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of managed security services provider Counterpane Internet Security Inc., identified 10 trends affe...
The Ten Most Dangerous Things Users Do Online
End users -- god bless 'em. You can't live with 'em -- but without them, you wouldn't have a job. They're the reason you have an IT infrastructure; they're also the single greatest threat to the security of that infrastructure.