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FTC settles with alleged spyware operation
A Nevada company will pay $330,000 to settle a complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it hid spyware in other software consumers could download for free, the FTC announced Monday.
October 1, 11:10 a.m. PDT
Contested U.K. encryption disclosure law takes effect
British law enforcement gained new powers on Monday to compel individuals and businesses to decrypt data wanted by authorities for investigations.
October 1, 6:15 a.m. PDT
EFF sues to uncover alleged telco lobbying
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) believes telecommunications carriers are pushing for an amnesty to protect them from lawsuits over alleged illegal wiretapping, and it is suing for the evidence.
September 28, 5:13 p.m. PDT
France drags its feet on online security
With Internet fraud on the rise, French banks and merchants are not putting in place antifraud technology to catch bad online transactions, an official from France's central bank said Thursday.
September 27, 9:23 a.m. PDT
IBM surveillance software to scan Chicago streets
The City of Chicago is developing a futuristic video surveillance system designed to scan city streets looking for everything from bombs to traffic jams.
September 27, 5:28 a.m. PDT
Two charged with espionage sought funding in China
A federal grand jury indicted two men in California of conspiring to steal high tech trade secrets and develop them with venture capital funding they sought to obtain from China.
September 27, 4:38 a.m. PDT
Tech giants chart research goals
Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies.
September 26, 2:53 p.m. PDT
Tensions, crackdowns precede China's big meeting
The eyes of the world are looking toward Beijing for the Olympic Games that will be held here fewer than 11 months from now. But for real China watchers, an event next month will draw much more attention and have a much greater impact on the country than 16 days of athletics.
September 26, 6:10 a.m. PDT
Security experts pitch 'culture of data'
The companies that are having the most success in advancing their data security efforts today are those that are finding a way to protect sensitive information without getting in the way of business users, industry experts maintain.
September 25, 2:53 p.m. PDT
EU divided over telecom regulation
Internal divisions within the European Commission about the shape of a policy review for the telecommunications industry due this quarter sparked sharp criticism from industry analysts Tuesday.
September 25, 10:04 a.m. PDT
Frontline, AT&T appeal FCC spectrum auction rules
Several companies have challenged spectrum auction rules recently set by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, with Frontline Wireless protesting that the auction of the 700MHz band to be auctioned in January could shut out small bidders.
September 25, 9:48 a.m. PDT
NY blasts Facebook over predators, subpoenas docs
Facebook's safety controls and procedures are deficient and fail to properly protect minors from adult sexual predators in the company's social-networking site, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged Monday.
September 24, 2:40 p.m. PDT
FBI investigates Unisys over U.S. government hack
IT systems integrator Unisys is under fire for allegedly failing to detect the hacking of U.S. Department of Homeland Security computers, an incident that resulted in data being sent to a Chinese-language Web site.
September 24, 8:22 a.m. PDT
Remote Vietnamese village gets Internet access via WiMax
WiMax and a satellite connection are bringing broadband Internet access to a remote Vietnamese village, part of a collaboration between the public and private sector to narrow the digital divide in rural Vietnam.
September 21, 5:21 a.m. PDT
US may file complaint over EU's new high-tech tariffs
A U.S. government official played down reports that the U.S. is considering taking the European Union to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the imposition of new duties on high-tech imports such as flat-screen monitors and digital set-top boxes.
September 21, 4:13 a.m. PDT
Security outsourcing on the rise
As one of the world's largest outsourcing providers, Wipro Technologies is ramping up its security services business in a big way.
September 20, 2:30 p.m. PDT
Senators push for Internet tax ban
Three Republican U.S. senators on Thursday called on Congress to pass a permanent Internet tax ban before a moratorium expires Nov. 1.
September 20, 12:57 p.m. PDT
Inventors protest patent reform bill
Patent reform legislation before the U.S. Congress would kill the value of patents and allow companies from other countries to steal U.S. intellectual property, a group of inventors said Thursday.
September 20, 10:54 a.m. PDT
Is the US at risk from cyberwarfare?
May was not a good month for geeks in Estonia. The tiny Baltic republic weathered a month-long cyberattack that shuttered Internet servers nationwide. At the height of the crisis, people who wanted to use payment cards to buy bread or gas had to wait, as the onslaught crippled Estonia's banks.
September 20, 8:54 a.m. PDT
UK prepares to let 3G services run on 2G spectrum
The U.K. is considering letting mobile phone operators run 3G (third-generation) services on frequencies reserved for 2G services, a change that could mean better 3G coverage and lower costs for the public, the government's telecommunications regulator said Thursday.
September 20, 5:42 a.m. PDT
PayPal claims gains against phishers
PayPal security chief Michael Barrett isn't ready to claim a victory in the fight against phishing schemes, but he said that his company is slowly turning the tide using a set of new partnerships and technological means.
September 20, 4:23 a.m. PDT
AT&T: Network perimeter security should be virtual
Enterprise companies will soon begin offloading many of their network security responsibilities to telecommunications and Internet service providers and save vast amounts of time and money doing so, if AT&T has its way.
September 20, 4:05 a.m. PDT
Report: VA's IT security still needs work
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has made some progress since a May 2006 data breach, but it has not completed 20 of 22 recommendations from an internal auditor, according to a report released Wednesday.
September 19, 10:34 a.m. PDT
EC backs $4.7 billion in funding to salvage Galileo GPS project
Satellite navigation boxes using the GPS (global positioning system) are no longer the preserve of luxury car owners in Europe. Now you see them in the humblest vehicles on the Continent's highways.
September 19, 8:54 a.m. PDT
EU commissioner slams DOJ reaction to Microsoft antitrust ruling
European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has slammed comments from the U.S. Department of Justice about Monday's European court ruling on an antitrust judgment against Microsoft.
September 19, 5:45 a.m. PDT
Acer, Gateway deal gains U.S. antitrust approval
Acer's planned $710 million acquisition of U.S. PC vendor Gateway won antitrust approval in the U.S. as the clock struck midnight Monday, Gateway said.
September 19, 3:48 a.m. PDT
Apple may be next in EU antitrust sights
With Microsoft's antitrust appeal now decided, the next U.S. technology company to get a place on the European Union (EU)'s regulatory hot seat may be Apple, an antitrust expert said Tuesday.
September 18, 3:29 p.m. PDT
Group says e-voting paper trail wouldn't improve security
Requiring print-outs as a back-up to electronic voting machines would not improve security but would increase costs of U.S. voting systems, according to a report released Tuesday.
September 18, 12:55 p.m. PDT
Fear of insider threats hits home
The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threat posed by their own employees remains their most significant risk.
September 18, 10:42 a.m. PDT
Infrastructure threats: Botnets show DoS who's boss
Malware-infected botnet PCs have overtaken DoS attacks as the top security issue facing Internet service providers and other Web infrastructure hosting players, according to a new survey of the organizations.
September 18, 3:54 a.m. PDT
With Microsoft ruling, a precedent for IT in Europe
Microsoft suffered a humiliating legal defeat Monday when it lost a court appeal to overturn the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against it.
September 17, 3:57 p.m. PDT
Microsoft loses appeal against EU antitrust ruling
Microsoft failed Monday in its bid to overturn a European Commission antitrust ruling against it, when the European Union's second highest court dismissed the company's appeal and ordered it to pay the bulk of the Commission's legal expenses.
September 17, 3:36 a.m. PDT
Verizon sues FCC over open-access auction
Verizon Wireless has encountered strong opposition for its request that an appeals court overturn U.S. Federal Communications Commission auction rules on a portion of wireless spectrum.
September 14, 8:34 a.m. PDT
Google calls for global online privacy standard
Search giant Google will propose on Friday that governments and technology companies create a transnational privacy policy to address growing concerns over how personal data is handled across the Internet.
September 14, 6:12 a.m. PDT
Badware hunters tame wild Webmasters, hosts
If hijacked sites and hosting companies that fail to police malware distribution sources represent two of the most serious threats to Internet security, there may be hope for improvement, according to researchers working with Harvard Law School's StopBadware.org.
September 14, 3:45 a.m. PDT
Design work trumps new technologies at Beijing Olympics
When Beijing won the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officials promised to use it as a showcase for new technology and China's economic development.
September 13, 6:52 a.m. PDT
HP wins license to sell more smartphones in China
Hewlett-Packard has won a license from the Chinese government to sell more smartphone models in the country, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.
September 13, 4:25 a.m. PDT
Court stays import ban while Qualcomm appeals
U.S. mobile users waiting for the next crop of phones could breathe a sigh of relief Wednesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted a stay on an import ban against handsets that use some Qualcomm chips.
September 13, 3:46 a.m. PDT
Consumer groups: FTC needs to watch telecom
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) needs to step up its regulation of the telecommunications and broadband industries and reverse its current opposition to net neutrality rules, two consumer groups said Wednesday.
September 12, 11:39 a.m. PDT
Keyloggers proposed to fight terrorism in cybercafes
An organization in Mumbai, India, has proposed that police use key-logging software at cybercafes to keep track of communications between terrorists.
September 12, 6:12 a.m. PDT
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To be continued
It's time to close this chapter of my blog and begin the
next one. Here I'd just like
to thank Steve Gillmor ...
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