The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee has voted 15-8 to overturn the FCC's net neutrality rules. After a contentious hearing, the subcommittee approved a resolution to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's rules that prevent Internet providers from blocking access to websites that use too much bandwidth.
China's wary government is a world champion in internet censorship, but Communist Party leaders now want to master the trickier feat of actively shaping online opinion. The results so far don't match the zap and crackle of China's young, who have embraced microblogs as their latest tool for spreading information and opinions that can make Party officials see red.
Sens. John McCain and John Kerry are circulating proposed legislation to create an "online privacy bill of rights," according to people familiar with the situation, a sign of bipartisan support for efforts to curb the Internet-tracking industry. Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Mr. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, are backing a bill that would require companies to seek a person's permission to share data about him with outsiders.
A distributed denial-of-service attack that affected thousands of customers at Codero and other hosting providers appeared to come from within China and to be launched at a Chinese site that is critical of communism or its Domain Name System provider, Codero said. The disruptions that took Codero's customers offline for most of the morning were collateral damage in the attack, said Ryan Elledge, chief operating officer at Codero.
In the last three months of 2010 attackers managed to serve 3 million malicious advertising, or malvertising, impressions every day. That's the headline figure from a report released from Web security firm Dasient. According to Dasient, that's a 100 percent increase from the preceding quarter.
A rare rift has developed between national governments and the nonprofit organization that oversees Internet domain names, with neither side showing signs of backing down in a dispute that includes trademarks and free expression. In a statement, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, listed 23 areas of continued disagreement over the rules for approving new top-level domain names.
Ten alleged e-mail scammers, using classic Nigerian fraud techniques, were indicted for stealing millions of dollars from unwitting Americans, prosecutors said. The suspects, who are mostly in their 20s, included a Nigerian ringleader and nine American citizens based in the Los Angeles area who helped dupe two dozen victims out of their savings.
The Federal Trade Commission received more complaints about identity theft in 2010 than any other issue. This marks the 11th year in a row that the FTC received more identity theft complaints than anything else -- a problem that has persisted over the years as more and more information is shared on the Internet.
A lawsuit filed against the mayor and city council of Austin will test whether public officials in Texas can use their private e-mail accounts to hide communication about government affairs from public scrutiny. Rulings in similar cases in other states have generally found in favor of public disclosure.
Sony Corp. said it will appeal the seizure of Playstation 3 game consoles by customs officers in the Netherlands following a court injunction initiated by LG Electronics over a patent dispute. The Dutch customs authorities notified Sony at the end of February that an inspection would be made into Sony products imported into the Netherlands, which has now resulted in Playstation 3 game consoles being temporarily withheld, Sony said.
A major software attack on mobile phones has put pressure on Google Inc. to do more to secure its online store for smartphone applications. The company behind the now ubiquitous Android operating system came under fire after computer-security experts uncovered more than 50 malicious applications that were uploaded to and distributed from Google's Android Market.
A Nevada student who gave the opening address at his high school graduation last year has been charged with breaking into his school district's computer system and bumping up his classmates' grades for a fee. Police say Tyler Coyner, 19, was the ringleader in a group of 13 students who have been charged with conspiracy, theft and computer intrusion in connection with the case.
A federal magistrate ruled that Sony can subpoena the ISP of a hacker who has released a PlayStation 3 jailbreak, as well as order Twitter, Google, and YouTube to hand over information from his accounts on those sites. Sony is suing George Hotz, alleging that he violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud Abuse Act for distributing on his Web site his tools for jailbreaking the PS3, which enable PS3 owners to run home brew and pirated applications on their console.
In a paean to deregulation, a group of top telecommunication companies and trade associations sent a letter to the White House, complaining that the Federal Communications Commission isn't doing enough to reduce federal rules. Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner Cable and Verizon joined organizations like CTIA and Broadband for America in arguing that the FCC, which regulates all of them, is not sufficiently following President Obama's order to review, and if necessary, cut regulations.
Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, "e-discovery" software can analyze documents in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost. Some programs can extract relevant concepts -- like documents relevant to social protest in the Middle East -- even in the absence of specific terms, and deduce patterns of behavior that would have eluded lawyers examining millions of documents.
Amid widespread, violent protests in Libya, the country’s Internet has gone dark. This is the second time in two weeks Libya’s Internet has been taken offline.
Courtney Love's 140 character Twitter rants against a fashion designer are costing her more than $430,000, an attorney says. The singer has settled a lawsuit filed by Dawn Simorangkir, who sued the Hole frontwoman in March 2009 accusing her of making false statements about the designer and her past in a series of postings on the microblogging site Twitter and Love's Myspace blog.
The Justice Department is investigating whether a group representing some top technology firms is unfairly trying to smother a free rival technology for delivering online video that is backed by Google Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Much the way firms battled in the 1980s over VHS and Betamax video formats, tech rivals are fighting over the technology used to deliver and display Web video.
Rivals Microsoft and Google are teaming up to sue Geotag, which has sued about 400 companies for violating a patent that it acquired a couple years ago. The patent covers a method for putting store information on a map, and both companies argue that it should never have been granted because of prior art.
The blogging site WordPress was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The attack is "affecting connectivity" for many of WordPress' more than 25 million bloggers, Sara Rosso of Automattic, which owns WordPress, told Sophos.
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