Deep Packet Inspection
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UK to monitor, store all social-network traffic?
News The U.K. government's proposed Interception Modernisation Programme would enforce tracking and retention of all U.K. citizens' Web communications, including IM conversations.
Tags: Privacy, Mobile platforms/communications, MySpace, Traffic Data, data retention, Tim Berners-Lee, Bebo, Government, Internet Service, IMP
British PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
News U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown enlists father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, to help drive opening up of access to government data in the Web.
Tags: Web sites, Privacy, Tim Berners-Lee, Government, Internet Service Provider, Prime Minister, technique, WWW, Web, Web sites
UK govt outlines Facebook monitoring plans
News In a consultation launched on Monday, the U.K. Home Office described how it wants service providers to retain and process data about their users' activities on social networks and other third-party services.
Tags: Network security, Data mining & analysis, Web 2.0, Home Secretary, Database, IP Telephony, Compensation, communications service provider, Government, Facebook
Virgin Media to monitor traffic for file-sharing
News U.K. carrier to monitor its customers' data packets in an effort to gauge the level of unlawful file-sharing on its networks.
Tags: Privacy, Trial, Virgin Media, Detica, network, Spokesperson, Media, File-sharing, monitor, music company
Berners-Lee says no to Internet 'snooping'
News The inventor of the World Wide Web calls deep packet inspection the electronic equivalent of opening people's mail.
Tags: Data security, Diagnostics and monitoring, Privacy, Tim Berners-Lee, Government, Advertisement, Internet Service, Deep Packet Inspection, CEO, U.K.
UK authorities deny prototype intercept database
News Security experts understand that a prototype centralized database has been built, to test whether all U.K. citizens' communications information can be stored.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Privacy, Security, Booth, Database, Spokesperson, U.K., Web, Home Office, Privacy
Berners-Lee: Semantic Web will have privacy built-in
News The Semantic Web will be able to enforce privacy policies set by Web users, according to Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Tags: Web sites, Network security, Security implementation/standards, Semantic Web, data mining, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, photograph, desktop, built-In
Phorm serves up 'recommendation engine'
News The behavioral ad-serving technology company has announced a content-serving product
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Technology, Web Page, British Telecommunications, Tim Berners-Lee, Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., network, Internet Service Provider
Firewalls failing to keep generation Facebook in check
News Generation Y imposes challenges to network security at work, companies must find ways to keep the net generation staff happy while protecting enterprise data.
Tags: Data security, Data services, Firewalls, Content management, Authentication and encryption, Security, Datamonitor, Quocirca, Worker, Silicon.com
IBM tackles security with a blade
News The BladeCenter PN41 is designed to reduce security threats, such as viruses and denial-of-service attacks.
Tags: Blade servers, Security, IBM Corp., IBM eServer BladeCenter, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., performance, software, denial of service, America, blade server
Cisco beefs up broadband offering
News Networking giant buys start-up P-Cube, a maker of software for controlling, monitoring and billing for IP services.
Tags: TCP/IP, Business broadband, Personal broadband
Juniper: Enterprise, here we come
News Juniper's long-anticipated foray into the enterprise routing market means that incumbent Cisco now has a keen challenger.
Tags: Routing/switching
EU votes against disconnecting file-sharers
News Two reports from the European Parliament argue that if file-sharers of copyrighted material are not trying to make money from their actions, they should not be criminalized or thrown off the Internet.
Tags: Copyright
White hats expose VoIP security threat
News Penetration testers have demonstrated how to hack into numerous VoIP clients, but analysts say social-engineering attacks are a more pressing concern
Tags: Security, Network security, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, TCP/IP
Securing the Wireless LAN
Techguide Network administrators face huge challenges when it comes to securing the WLAN.
Tags: Wireless LANs, 802.11/Wi-Fi, Policy and management, IT strategy
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