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...
Read moreApple 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...
Read moreMicrosoft, 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...
Read moreAT&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...
Read moreRegulators 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...
Read moreChina: 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...
Read moreCyber 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...
Read moreChina Delays Censorship Software Rule
Communist China on June 30 postponed its requirement that the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort censorship software be included with all computers sold...
Read moreCompeting for Best Censorship
Technology firms in countries with little government repression are currently competing to be the best at helping repressive regimes like China and Iran...
Read morePresident Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan
On May 29 President Barack Obama introduced his administration's new report on cybersecurity in the United States entitled Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a...
Read moreTracking Your Digital Trail
Innocent-seeming questionnaires, tests, and surveys are increasingly being disseminated by government officials so that they have complete histories on every citizen. ...
Read moreSpecialist Claims China Waging Cyberwarfare
“China is playing chess while we're playing checkers,” says Kevin G. Coleman, a cybersecurity adviser to the U.S. government, according to a May...
Read moreNew Cybersecurity Regime Proposed
Introduced just last week in the Senate, rather quietly, was the new Cybersecurity Act of 2009. Proposed by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV...
Read moreGoogle Beware of Antitrust Nominee
Google, the internationally popular Internet search engine, is under fire. Christine A. Varney, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next antitrust chief...
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