State Department Passport Snooping & RFID
A sixth U.S. State Department employee or contractor has pleaded guilty to illegally looking at electronic passport files, the U.S. Department of Justice...
Computers
Microsoft, Yahoo Oppose Google Books
Microsoft and Yahoo are joining a coalition to oppose Google’s creation of what could become the largest virtual library the world has ever...
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Microsoft Appeals Ban on MS Word
Microsoft on August 18 filed an appeal to a judge’s ruling that the company’s Word application violates a Canadian firm’s patent. The ruling...
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Computer Chips Based on DNA
In order to meet the demand for ever smaller and faster computer chips, IBM and the California Institute of Technology have been researching...
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Twitter Attack Aimed at Georgian Blogger
CNET News reported on August 6 that “a Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted...
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Cyberattack Takes Down Twitter
A denial-of-service attack took down the Twitter short messaging service on the morning of August 6. As of this writing, the Twitter status...
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Marines Fight Facebook, NFL Tackles Twitter
The Los Angeles Times reported on August 5 that the Defense Department is studying how to use social networking sites such as Facebook,...
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Secret Service Checks Las Vegas ATMs
PC World reported on August 3 that the U.S. Secret Service is investigating some ATM machines in Las Vegas that are subtracting money...
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Skype Signing Off?
They say that all good things must come to an end. The truth of this maxim might be proven very soon in the...
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Apple Says Hacked iPhones Are Dangerous
Wired reported on July 28 that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking the U.S. Copyright Office to legalize the practice of hacking Apple’s...
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Microsoft, Yahoo Reach Long-Term Search Deal
In an effort to combat Google’s dominant market share, Microsoft and Yahoo have announced a 10-year long partnership that will give Microsoft access...
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AT&T Did Not Censor 4chan
AT&T, on July 26, temporarily blocked its customers from accessing the img.4chan.org image-sharing website. Both AT&T and img.4chan.org founder Christopher “Moot” Poole say...
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Regulators Searching Google
Representatives from the European Union said on July 20 that they are investigating Google’s digital book publishing project for possible violations of European...
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China: Apple iPhones But No Wi-Fi
Apple Corp., supplier of Wi-Fi-enabled iPhones, has been carrying on a war of words with the Chinese government — emblematic of what happens...
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Cyber Attacks Originating With N. Korea?
Beginning over the Independence Day weekend and continuing on into this week, several federal agencies' websites were paralyzed by what was clearly a...
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