In 2008 a major flaw was discovered in the Domain Name System (DNS) which regulates traffic on the Internet. Network World reported that as a result it is “possible for hackers to launch cache poisoning attacks, where traffic is redirected from a legitimate website to a fake one without the website…
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FTC Chair Jon Liebowitz is resigning after 4 years during which he “pushed for online privacy protections and sought to restrain unfair competition,” but as the New York Times reported he “stumbled in an attempt to rein in the Internet search practices of Google”:
Competitors, advertisers and some consumer advocates…
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RIM was renamed to Blackberry when announcing Blackberry 10, but the big question is whether the new Blackberry 10 can make it. The New York Times offer these comments:
The BlackBerry music, movie and app stores are just getting under way.
If you choose BlackBerry over iPhone or…
A French Court ordered Twitter in California to identify anonymous individuals whose Tweets were anti-Semitic and racist in violation of French law, even though Twitter claims that its Terms of Service (ToS) are controlled by California law. The New York Times reported:
The case revolves around the broad question…
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a number of rulings that protect employees’ right to express their opinions on Social Media. The New York Times reported that NLRB Chair Mark Pearce noted that "federal law has long protected the right of employees to discuss work-related matters":
Many view…
The EU is considering a plan to require Internet companies to report loss or theft of personal information. The New York Times reported that the new EU laws will apply to “enablers of Internet services, e-commerce platforms, Internet payment gateways, social networks, search engines, cloud computing services, application stores.” The…
With the recent death of accused Aaron Swartz there will be no trial to determine whether Mr. Swartz violated federal wire laws by downloading 4.8 million articles and documents from JSTOR at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the meantime the National Law Journal is questioning whether the government’s actions…
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Since we get phishing emails all day long most of us recognize them immediately and delete them, but apparently phishing fraud continues to be a major problem. One great resource is the federal government website OnGuardOnline.gov which offers advice about Phishing and how consumers can protect themselves:
When internet fraudsters…
The US government now claims that Iran was behind the recent cyber attacks against US banks that impacted millions of customers. The New York Times reported that these “hackers chose to pursue disruption, not money: another earmark of state-sponsored attacks.“ Apparently Iran has retaliated from economic sanctions:
Since September, intruders …
The FTC and Google reached a landmark agreement regarding allegations of antitrust behavior by Google regarding Google search engine. But also the settlement allows competitors of Google’s “on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms – to patents on critical standardized technologies needed to make popular devices such as smart phones, laptop…
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