Friday, November 2, 2007

N.J. man gets two years jail for AOL spam scam


Category: Biometric News, Security, Reuters, Privacy & data protection, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Spam, Spam And Phishing
Spammer is sentenced after pleading guilty to helping send junk e-mails to more than 1.2 million America Online subscribers. A New Jersey man was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Friday for helping send spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million America Online subscribers. ...
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Week in review: Go go Google


Category: Biometric News, Security, Identity Theft, Mobile, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Google Inc.
The search giant is outgrowing expectations, while Apple releases its Leopard into the wild. Also: Finding some privacy on the Net. Google is big and getting bigger. Google's shares traded over the $700 mark this week, marking a new first for the Internet giant. Just a...
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Thursday, November 1, 2007

Cisco to buy Securent for $100 million


Category: Biometric News, Security, Cisco Systems Inc., Reuters, Corporate & legal
Communications equipment giant plans to swallow 57-employee security software maker by the second quarter of 2008. Cisco Systems, the largest U.S. communications equipment maker, on Thursday said it plans to buy security software maker Securent for $100 million in cash and assumed options. Privately held Securent, based...
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Japan may track defense officials with GPS phones


Category: Biometric News, Security, Personal Technology, Wireless, Reuters, Consumer Electronics, Phone
Proposal is made after the former No. 2 at the defense ministry admitted he'd been treated to hundreds of rounds of golf by a defense contractor. Japan's government wants to use mobile phones with GPS--often used by parents to keep track of children--to keep tabs on senior defense...
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Germany rolls out ePassport II - it’s fingerprinting good!


Category: Biometric News

Enhanced security is 'tamper proof'

Germany is switching over to the second generation of ePassport passports, with the addition of fingerprint biometrics. Fingerprints become mandatory in June 2009*, and according to NXP, which supplies the chips for the passports, it will be the first country in the world "to introduce second-generation ePassports with enhanced security."…

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Tele Atlas to TomTom: Match Garmin offer


Category: Biometric News, Security, Reuters, Corporate & legal
Garmin's offer for digital-map maker is 15 percent higher, setting stage for bidding war. TomTom has five days to raise its bid. Digital-map company Tele Atlas has given navigation device maker TomTom five days to raise its agreed bid for the company, a day after receiving a higher...
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