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Saturday, September 27, 2003Eliminate Spam to Improve E-Mail Security
 Gartner latest thinking on the need for email security recognises the need for strengthening the basic underlying security infrastructure. In many ways this reflects ecommnet's own approach in which we advocate a multi-layer strategy. Related Links Sobig Lesson: Pay Attention to the E-Mail Gateway What is an email firewall? and do I need one ? posted by Robert Campbell 10:26 AM Car Dealerskins OnLine Customers of personal data
 Car Dealerskins online customers of personal data including credit card and social security number details.On-Line hosting provider Dealerskins of Tennessee has exposed personal and financial data of around 1000 customer's on it's web site. The security breach discovered by a security consultant, which has now been plugged, was caused by a publicly accessible web page which contained a dump of all the data from all the web forms submitted on the web site. The company, which provides Automotive dealerships in the USA with hosted web sites, has refused to confirm or deny the compromise and consequently it's not known how many customers have been affected or how long the exposure has been visible. We wonder who might actually be liable in a case like this. The recently enacted Californian law which might relate to this issue has a specific clause in it 'willful ignorance' which to our mind would imply the automotive dealer could not shrug off the blame to the hosting company and would therefore be equally responsible. The law, called "SB 1386," is intended to combat identity theft. It passed last September [2002] after a major computer intrusion into a California state government payroll system. Other recent cases where the FTC have taken action include the Designer Clothing retailer Guess Inc. Related Links Security Focus Article on the Guess Inc case Guess Who's Fault it is Kevin Poulsen's article at Security Focus SB 1386 Federal Trade Commision posted by Robert Campbell 9:12 AM Monday, September 22, 2003CSS puts Tom in a better position
 Back in May I wrote about Tom Arah's article in PC Pro, Disgusting Table Manners in which I complained about his use of HTML Tables as the layout mechanism of choice. Well I now have to report that in Tom's latest article in this month's PCPro Mr Arah has been reading from a different menu, and gets a silver star for his enthusiasm for using DIV tags and CSS positioning. he even mentions accessibility issues! Well done, but could still improve.Related Links PC Pro I can't give the direct link because their web site is not really acessible posted by Robert Campbell 10:32 AM Hutton Inquiry knows how to use the web
 David Bowen's article on FT.com quite clearly makes the case for the greater use of 'content management tools' to maintain corporate web sites. Increasingly both buinesses and individuals are turning to the web as their 1st point of call for information. Any company which does not maintain its web presence bang-up-to-date runs the risk of losing customers and creating a negative image. Organisations in the public sector, councils for example or those in regulated industries such as those in the utilities sector run the list of punitive leglislative pentalties as well.
I have heard it said that no web site is better than a bad one, however, at ecommnet we can't see any excuse for either! The key is to be able to delegate the up-date process to the owners of the information, giving them editorial responsibility is the only way to ensure that the data will be kept up to date. Good web content management tools exist and are producing good returns for many companies and institutions across a range of sectors. Some examples of our customer's results are given below. Related Links David Bowen: Keep it flowing W3C WAI Web Accessibility Initiative The Government's eGIF initiative Customer Examples Craven and Partners Insurer's at Lloyds Girls Day School Trust posted by Robert Campbell 10:04 AM
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