http://www.security-roadmap.co.uk Security blog Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:41:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In these days there are so many threats to computer security, that it is a wonder that so many computer users are going about their business on the internet without making sure that they are completely safe from the remote threats that are lurking around every corner. A study produced by ... http://www.security-roadmap.co.uk/174-computer-users-still-do-not-update-security.html It has been called a “Cold War” but during the cold war there was an escalation of arms in order to bluff the opposition into thinking that one side was more powerful than the other. The internet cold war is very different, on the one side there is money and ... http://www.security-roadmap.co.uk/173-online-privacy-under-threat.html Under an agreement the European Union are about to give US law enforcement and security agencies information about all of the citizens of the EU community and that includes all UK citizens too! This agreement will allow the US agencies to access information regarding what we spend out money on, where ... http://www.security-roadmap.co.uk/172-eu-gives-personal-data-to-the-us.html The future of domain names is going to be very different following a meeting in Paris by the people who oversee the domain name industry, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICCAN) have met and decided to relax the rules regarding domain names. It all started with .com, the ... http://www.security-roadmap.co.uk/171-what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name.html The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and The Electronic Frontier Foundation are locking horns on the subject of P2P. The problems lies with the way that the RIAA are going about their legal cases, this is what EEF are looking to upset and it is all going to boil down ... http://www.security-roadmap.co.uk/170-riaa-under-attack-from-the-eef.html The government regulating the internet, is this cool thing? Well for many Americans it is, in fact there are around half of those who tool part in a national survey by Rasmussen Reports believed that the internet should be regulated in the same way that the TV and radio are. However ... http://www.security-roadmap.co.uk/169-half-of-americans-believe-the-internet-should-controlled.html Anyone residing in France and likes to download the odd bit of illegal music or maybe a new film that had yet to be released, then you could be heading for trouble as from January 2009. As there has been a new law past which endorses the three strikes and ... http://www.security-roadmap.co.uk/168-france-gets-tough-on-down-loaders.html It started off as a way of getting back at Microsoft by a disgruntled user, but now the use of malicious software has grown into something more sinister. No longer are there jokers messing around with the minds of people behind certain businesses. Cyber crime is fast becoming the route that ... http://www.security-roadmap.co.uk/167-cyber-crime-is-on-the-rise.html The Performing Rights Society (PRS) have gone after the police in Lancashire over an alleged copyright infringement which has supposed to have been taking when place in Police Stations and on the phone when callers are being put in hold. The PRS have issued a writ against in the High Court ... http://www.security-roadmap.co.uk/166-police-in-trouble-with-the-prs.html The days of being able to record films on DVR’s, if The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) gets their way and introduces some security measures. This can easily be done by remotely blocking the film so that it cannot be recorded at all by using Selectable Output Control (SOC). This ... http://www.security-roadmap.co.uk/165-dvrs-may-be-able-to-record-all-programmes-soon.html