Archive for the ‘Network World’ Category

Lawmaker pushes consumer notification bill in wake of Carrier IQ concerns

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U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has proposed a bill that would require all phone companies to notify consumers of any user tracking and monitoring software in their cell phones.

SOPA, PIPA, Anonymous: Can I have a little hope?

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I think when we look back at this January, we may view it as a turning point in how businesses protect their intellectual property (IP). Several key things happened:

Feds say Megaupload user content could be deleted this week

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Federal prosecutors say that two companies hosting Megaupload's servers in the U.S. could begin deleting all user content on them as early as Thursday.

F5 says Big-IP is a network firewall

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F5’s Big-IP application delivery controllers are now certified as network firewalls, meaning they can replace separate network firewalls businesses might already have in place to meet regulators’ requirements.

Zscaler launches free-to-use URL scanning service

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Cloud security vendor Zscaler has launched a new free-to-use online service called Zulu that can assess the security risk associated with URLs by analyzing the content they point to, as well as the reputation of their corresponding domain names and IP addresses.

European Parliament says its website taken offline by attackers

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The European Parliament's website fell under a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS) on Thursday in what the organization classified as retaliation for the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site and an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement.

Google stirs up privacy hornet’s nest

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Google has whipped up a privacy brouhaha with a blog post announcing that the company is rewriting its privacy policy, consolidating user information across its services.

Security at the scene of the crime

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Do homeowners feel the need for extra security if their property was once the scene of a terrible crime? We went to some of L.A.'s most notorious crime scenes in search of answers.

Google says privacy change won’t affect government users

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Google today dismissed concerns by a former senior federal IT official that its controversial new privacy policy would create problems for customers of Google Apps for Government.

Hacking stunt: Stealing smartphone crypto keys using plain old radio

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Encryption keys on smartphones can be stolen via a technique using radio waves, says one of the world's foremost crypto experts, Paul Kocher, whose firm Cryptography Research will demonstrate the hacking stunt with several types of smartphones at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco next month.