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Microsoft to Start Requiring Sender ID Tag for E-mail
Around November, Hotmail and MSN will flag as potential spam those messages that do not have the Sender ID tag to verify the sender, Craig Spiezle, a director in the technology care and safety group at the software maker said. Sender ID is a specification for verifying the authenticity of e-mail by ensuring the validity of the server from which the e-mail came. Patent Office Rejects Claims Against BlackBerry Maker
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued two more preliminary rejections of patent claims brought against Research in Motion Ltd. regarding its popular BlackBerry mobile e-mail device. The patent office has now challenged four of the five patents that RIM was ruled to have violated by a federal court. Microsoft to Offer Legal Indemnification to Partners
Microsoft Corp. is extending legal protection to personal-computer makers and other partners, the latest step in the company's effort to combat the use of the Linux operating system and what it sees as increasing threats associated with intellectual-property disputes. The Redmond, Wash., software maker will offer legal indemnification to shield partners that distribute Microsoft software from legal costs and damage claims resulting from litigation over patent, trade secrets or other intellectual property. Bill Requires Companies to Warn of ID Theft Risk
Business leaders who fail to tell consumers when they may be at risk of identity theft could face jail under a bipartisan bill expected to be introduced in the U.S. Senate. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter and Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee's top Democrat, would also restrict a freewheeling trade in Social Security numbers that are prized by identity thieves. Credit Card Customers Denied Info About Breach, Some Complain
Consumer advocates said credit card customers have been denied crucial information in the wake of a recent data breach, as some major banks are declining to tell cardholders whether their account may have been accessed by hackers. Meanwhile, Internet security firm Secure Computing Corp. warned that a fresh appearance of an old e-mail scam appears to come from opportunistic fraudsters hoping to use fear about the recent data theft as a way to trick MasterCard customers into giving up their account information. Spanish Police Arrest 186 in Child Porn Crackdown Online
Spanish police have arrested 186 people throughout the country in a crackdown on the distribution of child pornography, the Interior Ministry said. In two parallel operations, 650 officers searched 188 homes and found evidence of child pornography distribution across the Internet using "peer-to-peer" software and a system of passwords. Yahoo Shuts Some Chat Rooms Over Pedophile Concerns
Yahoo Inc. has shut some Internet chat rooms after companies including PepsiCo Inc. and Georgia-Pacific Corp. pulled advertising, citing concerns that the sites were being used by adults to lure young children. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., Georgia-Pacific and Pepsi said they pulled certain ads after being informed by a Texas television news station that the ads were being displayed to users of chat rooms covering topics such as pedophilia. Illegal Downloading Not Seen as Theft, UK Report Says
Campaigns to persuade people to stop downloading pirated games or software from the internet are not working, a report suggests. Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft. Military's Recruiting Database Raises Privacy Concerns
The Defense Department began working with a private marketing firm to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment in some branches. The program is provoking a furor among privacy advocates. European Limits on Net Gambling Face Challenges, Lawyer Says
European restrictions to cross-border gambling over the Internet will face a growing number of legal challenges and could fall away within the next three years, according to a lawyer who specializes in gambling. Although European Union law allows cross-border trade by gambling companies, many individual states prevent it, and critics accuse them of doing so to protect their own state lotteries. |
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