Computer vulnerabilities and how they can affect Americans' security are on the agenda for the U.S. Senate, and strong rhetoric is being used to support new legislation. The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is expected to move to the Senate ...
Tags: Rhetoric, Cybersecurity Bill, Washington, Computer Vulnerabilities
Cloud-based security services provider Zscaler has released an implementation for Internet Explorer of the HTTPS Everywhere browser security extension. HTTPS Everywhere forces the browser to always connect over HTTPS(HTTP Secure)to ...
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Computerworld - The specter that Congress will reauthorize the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 without any changes to its sweeping spying provisions is evoking cries of alarm from advocacy and privacy groups. Many say the law, ...
The U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation criticised new cybercrime legislation that went into effect Wednesday in the Philippines, which has sparked protests over its heavy-handed approach to speech on the internet. Of most concern ...
Tags: cybercrime, Cybercrime law, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Privacy advocates this week said they are dismayed, but not surprised about a New York Criminal Court judge's decision ordering Twitter to hand over all the data it has on an Occupy Wall Street protester being investigated for disorderly ...
Twitter released a report on Monday about the user information requests it has received from governments this year and how it responded to them. The data shows that the U.S.government asked for information on far more users than any other ...
Tags: Twitter, U.S.government, Twitter users, Google
Facebook started encrypting the connections of its North American users by default last week as part of a plan to roll out always-on HTTPS(Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)to its entire global user base. For the past several ...
Tags: Facebook, HTTPS, security benefits, account hijacking attacks
Computerworld-A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a provision in a just-enacted California state law that requires all registered sex-offenders to immediately turn over the all of their Internet identifiers and the names ...
Tags: federal judge, Human Trafficking Law, Internet service
A U.S.judge should limit the scope of a proposed court hearing examining whether a former Megaupload user can recover files that were on the website when the U.S.Department of Justice shut it down,the agency said. The hearing should focus ...
Tags: DOJ, Megaupload, data stored, Goodwin
IDG News Service-Modifying Apple's iPhone software to install applications not approved by Apple will still be legal under new exemptions to take effect on Sunday in the U.S.,but illegal for an iPad and other tablets. The seemingly ...
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The U.S.Supreme Court has refused to overturn a lower-court decision upholding legal immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly participated in a National Security Agency surveillance program during the last decade. The ...
Tags: High court, AT&T, NSA, NSA wiretap Case, EFF
IDG News Service - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to overturn legal immunity for telecom carriers that allegedly participated with a U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program during the last decade. The Supreme Court, without ...
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A U.S.federal judge has asked for more information to plan an evidentiary hearing concerning the fate of terabytes of data held in limbo since the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site. U.S.government prosecutors and Kyle Goodwin ...
Tags: EFF, Government, Data
Trina Solar Limited(NYSE:TSL)("Trina Solar"or the"Company"),a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic(PV)products,announced that the Company's founder and CEO,Mr.Jifan Gao,has received the Solar Industry Award 2012.Mr.Gao ...
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In the second major legal victory for music labels in recent weeks, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit has upheld a jury award of $222,000 against a woman accused of pirating 24 songs over a peer-to-peer file sharing network. ...
Tags: Appeals, Internet, music piracy case, USA