Pending New Legislations:
Spyware Targeted at Congressional Hearing
By John P. Mello Jr.
TechNewsWorld
November 20, 2003
A bill to take the "spy" out of spyware got a public hearing before a Congressional subcommittee Wednesday.
"You're starting to see some very sophisticated capabilities built into these things," Ken Sokol, senior product manager at Clearswift, told TechNewsWorld. "Some spyware will sit there and monitor what you're doing at your computer or steal sensitive information about you or your customers."
Until now, spyware has been seen as primarily a consumer problem, but Clearswift issued a white paper on the eve of the Congressional hearing suggesting the malware will create serious trouble for businesses, too.
"[Programs that] have been marketed and sold as corporate security devices and parental control software for kids are finding their way into the hands of hackers and criminals [who aim to] remotely [take] control of a victim's PC to facilitate industrial espionage," Clearswift Threatlab manager Pete Simpson said in a statement.
By John P. Mello Jr.
TechNewsWorld
November 20, 2003
A bill to take the "spy" out of spyware got a public hearing before a Congressional subcommittee Wednesday.
"You're starting to see some very sophisticated capabilities built into these things," Ken Sokol, senior product manager at Clearswift, told TechNewsWorld. "Some spyware will sit there and monitor what you're doing at your computer or steal sensitive information about you or your customers."
Until now, spyware has been seen as primarily a consumer problem, but Clearswift issued a white paper on the eve of the Congressional hearing suggesting the malware will create serious trouble for businesses, too.
"[Programs that] have been marketed and sold as corporate security devices and parental control software for kids are finding their way into the hands of hackers and criminals [who aim to] remotely [take] control of a victim's PC to facilitate industrial espionage," Clearswift Threatlab manager Pete Simpson said in a statement.
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