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...only downside is that before you can look inside the books, you have to either have an account already or give Amazon a credit-card number for "security purposes," which might keep a lot of kids and teens away. While this is a nod to publishers worried about people gaining too much free access to their literature, it's a shame. What Amazon would lose in sales by being used as a kind of gigantic Cliffs Notes, it would gain 10 times over by becoming widely known as a search destination (just ask the highly profitable Google how important that...
...against more advanced intruders leeching your computing power to launch a cyberattack on someone else. Despite the spate of devastating viruses this year--Slammer in January, Blaster and Sobig in August--the threat has evolved past the 17-year-old hacker, past the lone thief who steals and reveals credit-card data. Businesses must now watch for organized-crime groups adept at lifting valuable, private information and extorting money with it. The Federal Government and key industries must keep aspiring cyberterrorists from busting open dams or shorting out our electric grid from a keyboard in Pakistan. Reason: al-Qaeda...
...software industry is learning from the credit-card industry, which has digitized crime watching based on card users' behavior. Basically, the credit-card companies monitor your card patterns, and when something out of the ordinary happens--a card is used overseas, yet the cardholder rarely travels, for example--the alarm goes off. Is the cardholder really in London? It sounds creepy and intrusive, but tracking exceptions to detect intruders is the basis for several new security approaches. And it has already become an invisible part of our lives. Stolfo has a start-up called System Detection, a two-year...
...have children at the school or who meet at the mosque," a senior investigator involved with the King Fahd Academy case told TIME. In May, police arrested an Arab man who moved from southern Germany to Bonn to send his children to the school. He was suspected of credit-card fraud, but while searching his apartment police found bomb-making instructions, household materials that could be used to make explosives, and a handwritten will. But Alfred Stoffel, the prosecutor handling the case, declined to press charges. "What we found wasn't sufficient to take to court," he says. The senior...
...Hence the dongle. Microsoft and Vodafone hope the device will spur people to buy things online that cost pennies or a few dollars. These "micropayments" are often too small for credit-card companies to handle efficiently, yet they seem to hold the key to reaching consumers who want to buy a single song or game. Microsoft senior vice president Pieter Knook claims that the emergence of a micropayment infrastructure will unleash a torrent of software - development activity that will deliver as yet unimagined programs to the market. This, he says, will transform the mobile-phone industry into one that...