Data-Loss Prevention Software Takes Security Up A Notch

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- Data-Loss Prevention Software Takes Security Up A Notch
- The Constitution – a citizen’s view – ‘cancer in the courts’
- Conn. AG to MySpace: Turn over sex offender data
- An appeal for life
- Govt looks at ways to protect personal data
- Yahoo Mail Antispam Capabilities Evolve
- BlueTie Collaboration Service Now Available on Mac

Data-Loss Prevention Software Takes Security Up A Notch
InformationWeek NY 
Antivirus protection is crucial but the growing list of very public data leaks and their often-expensive aftermath show that stopping external attacks isn’t the last word in protecting valuable information. The need for more safeguards has spawned a new class of protection dubbed data-loss prevention or DLP.
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The Constitution – a citizen’s view – ‘cancer in the courts’
Barnstable Patriot MA 
”Has the “cancer in the courts” metastasized into our government schools and other walks of life to the point that we will surrender our freedom and independence to a global government? nly you can answer the question by evaluating what is happening domestically and in our foreign policy. That’s my view. What’s yours? I can be reached at. write( ” ); document. write( addy77380 ); document.

Conn. AG to MySpace: Turn over sex offender data
CNET News CA 
“Because of certain information and certain technology we have available to us we were able to de-anonymize a lot of data and then do a second scrubbing run. The matches all came directly from state sex offender registries and from the Megan’s Law sex offender database all publicly accessible data Rambam said. Rambam did the MySpace research on behalf of California lawyer Gary Kurtz who is representing a company called Blue China Group in defending itself against a spam lawsuit filed by MySpace. “As part of that defense we are investigating a number of aspects about MySpace and this pedophile issue popped up as something astounding” Kurtz said. “These sex offenders and the efforts to find them are a small portion of a year-long investigation we conducted into MySpace” Rambam said. “MySpace filed a complaint against Blue China Group in federal court in Los Angeles alleging that BCG repeatedly phished and spammed millions of MySpace users” MySpace Chief Security fficer Nigam said in his statement. “Unfortunately while that lawsuit continues BCG has apparently decided to raise this unrelated issue without providing any data to support its assertions.

An appeal for life
Tufts Daily MA 
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Govt looks at ways to protect personal data
Asiane Singapore 
js’>'As data protection is a complex issue with extensive impact on all stakeholders this review will take some time' he said. He said this in a written reply to a question posed by Ms Lee Bee Wah of Ang Mo Kio GRC in Parliament on Monday. She had asked if his ministry will consider a comprehensive privacy law and wanted to know what laws there are to protect people from spam mail and the unauthorised sale of personal information. Also what about those whose photographs have been posted on blogs and other new media platforms without their authorisation she had asked. This would be considered a 'civil matter' said Dr Lee. 'The aggrieved persons could first ask the site's webmaster to remove the pictures' he said. 'As with matters relating to online libel and personal defamation they could also seek professional legal advice to determine the most appropriate legal recourse.

Yahoo Mail Antispam Capabilities Evolve
Softpedia Romania 
We believe that by deploying Abaca’s solution with our anti-spam toolkit we will offer Yahoo! Mail users not only added email security but an enhanced user experience as well. ” Bill Kasje Abaca’s vice president Business Development applauded the integration of Abaca into Yahoo Mail. In addition to offering spam filtering which the company claims it is 99% accurate Abaca is also designed to offer protection against phishing attacks. Kasje emphasized that the critical aspect of Abaca was the solution's ability to scale seamlessly and in this regard to adapt to businesses of any size including email service providers with a multi-million user base. “Now one of the largest Internet companies has given us an unprecedented opportunity to make a global impact in the fight against spam an extremely gratifying validation of our technology and our business model” Kasje added. “We are tremendously honored to be working with Yahoo! to protect hundreds of millions of Yahoo! Mail users around the world. ” At the same time Yahoo Mail will also integrate Return Path's anti-spam feedback loop service.

BlueTie Collaboration Service Now Available on Mac
MSNBC 
the leading Software as aService (SaaS) provider of collaboration services for businesses announcestoday that the BlueTie Collaboration service now supports Apple Inc. ’sSafari Web browser. BlueTie Collaboration is a. BlueTie is designed to make it easier for businesses to communicatemore effectively and work together more efficiently.

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