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Vendors Jump on Web 2.0 Bandwagon

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:01:39 -0400

Vendors are responding to the new Web 2.0 trends of blogging, instant messaging and wikis with many new technologies and products that can track and control corporate communication. Companies are introducing passive monitoring type products, including technologies that can warn employees if they are about to violate a corporate rule by using profanity or sending confidential documents. Others block employees from saving content to portable devices like a USB thumbdrive or censor offensive pictures or videos sent via email or IM. "Passive monitoring is the place to start but not the place to end," Michael Rothschild, senior director of product marketing for Orchestria, told ComputerWorld. "It's like having border control that only tells you after the fact if a terrorist has gotten in."

For more on Web 2.0 monitoring:
- see this ComputerWorld article

ALSO NOTED: Corporate blogger feedback goes ignored in Japan; Security expert says Internet is not a huge terrorist target; and

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:01:33 -0400

> Corporate blogger feedback goes ignored in Japan. Article

> Security expert says Internet is not a huge terrorist target. Article

> California mulls wireless security bill. Article

> RIM hopes its new 'pearl' will keep it ahead in the wireless pager market. Article

> AT&T changes its views on municipal WiFi networks. Article

> New browser promises search and surfing anonymity. Article

And Finally... A new use for those outdated cell phones. Article

How the Web is becoming a warfare tool

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:01:36 -0400

A militant Lebanese organization is eying US-based Web sites as a means to communicate and publicize their message. Hizballah has already broken into communication portals at several companies, including a Texas cable business, a Virginia cable provider and Web-hosting servers based in several locations from Montreal to New Jersey. According to security experts such Web site hijacking is becoming a critical communications tool for recruiting support, money and greater publicity for their cause. While the first response may be to shut down the compromised sites, federal terrorist experts say that's not the best way to try and stop the online activity.

For more on how the Web is a political warfare tool:
-read more at Time/CNN

Feds grab analytic tools for financial investigations

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:01:34 -0500

The federal government is arming itself with sophisticated data gathering and analytical applications in the quest to track illegal activity and terrorist financing. Given the deep wells of data constantly being churned in and out of agency investigations, the U.S. Treasury Department and its Internal Revenue Service say the new analytical tools are helping them determine money trail patterns that lead to criminal acts a lot quicker and easier than ever before.

For more on data tools for fighting money laundering:
- read this article at Government Computer News