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Megaupload user content safe for two more weeks 01 February, 2012 06:19:24
Efforts are intensifying to retrieve data belonging to potentially millions of users of Megaupload's online storage service following the company's dramatic shuttering by U.S. law enforcement authorities earlier this month. - +
Twitter's country-specific blocking brings hazards and hope 28 January, 2012 12:28:27
Twitter's move to comply with government requests and block tweets in specific countries could blunt its edge as a political tool, but there may be an upside in helping to unmask censorship, some privacy experts said Friday. - +
Hawaii legislators bid aloha to controversial data retention bill 28 January, 2012 06:11:46
Lawmakers in Hawaii on Thursday quietly dropped a bill that would have required Internet service providers to collect the detailed browsing histories of Internet users in the state and store the data for at least two years. - +
Twitter stalking case dismissed by Maryland judge 16 December, 2011 17:09:22
A U.S. judge in Maryland dismissed on Thursday a criminal case against a person who was charged with stalking a religious leader on Twitter, upholding "a tradition of protecting anonymous speech, particularly anonymous political or religious speech". - +
Mobile privacy debate reignites over hidden smartphone app 01 December, 2011 10:52:26
A controversy over smartphone privacy has reignited following a coder's recent post detailing how a hidden software application on Android-based HTC phones can collect a range of information about the user's activities. - +
Carrier IQ drops legal threat against security researcher 29 November, 2011 07:12:57
Software vendor Carrier IQ has withdrawn its threat to sue a security researcher for saying that its software helps phone companies surreptitiously track users of many popular mobile phones. - +
EFF proposes new method to strengthen Public Key Infrastructure 22 November, 2011 23:57:13
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is proposing an extension to the current SSL chain of trust that aims to improve the security of HTTPS and other secure communication protocols. - +
Advertisers can't be trusted to self-regulate on data collection, says EFF 16 November, 2011 01:53:18
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) doesn't think that the digital advertising industry can efficiently regulate itself and has issued a statement saying that the self-regulatory principles for multisite data recently published by the Digital Advertising Alliance will suffer from a lack of enforcement. - +
US Judge upholds investigators' access to Twitter data 11 November, 2011 17:18:00
A District Judge in the U.S. upheld Thursday an earlier order that Twitter must provide certain types of information of account holders to government investigators working on the WikiLeaks case, and declined to unseal records that could provide information on whether the prosecutors had tried to get similar information from other Internet companies. - +
Anonymity vs. real names on social networks 02 November, 2011 21:33:51
Let's cut to the chase: This one is really about whether Facebook and the new kid on the block, Google+, should get to throw their considerable weight around by requiring that users post to their social-networking sites using real names. - +
EFF, ACLU file lawsuits over Patriot Act data collection 27 October, 2011 07:54:13
Two civil liberties groups have filed lawsuits asking the U.S. Department of Justice to detail its collection of electronic data and other information under the 10-year-old counterterrorism law, the USA Patriot Act.
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CIO industry insight podcast #11: Brad Howarth talks about the future of broadband 15 June, 2011 09:17:33
Journalist for CIO Australia, Lisa Banks, chats to Brad Howarth about A Faster Future; the book he co-authored with Janelle Ledwidge. - +
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Special Report: Green and Sustainable IT in the Enterprise 15 April, 2010 11:58:23
Despite all the hype surrounding Green IT, many CIOs and senior IT executives are unsure about the best way to start their organisations on the green journey. In this special edition podcast, CIO Australia editor Matt Rodgers speaks to Sundeep Khisty, Green Practice Leader, HP Enterprise Services, Asia Pacific & Japan, about how CIOs can best guide IT to become a core part of a company's sustainability strategy.
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Trojan scoops 20k archives in one week 09 February, 2012 16:18:00
Cloud dump offers thieves reliability.A Trojan discovered this month has already stolen upwards of 20,000 archives, Symantec is warning. - +
DDoS attacks motivated by politics not criminality, Arbor Networks finds 09 February, 2012 01:47:00
Large service providers fear the AnonymousLarge Internet organisations believe ideological and political motivations have become the single commonest motivation behind the DDoS attacks hitting their networks, a survey of major Internet firms by has found. - +
Researchers crack satellite encryption 09 February, 2012 09:27:00
Researchers at a university in Bochum, Germany claim to have cracked encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are used to secure certain civilian satellite phone communications. - +
EU to stengthen its cybersecurity watchdog 09 February, 2012 03:22:46
Cybercrime is worth more than the international drugs trade, says Commissioner Neelie KroesA push by European authorities to strengthen the European Union's cybersecurity watchdog has been given a green light by parliamentarians. - +
Google ships Chrome 17, touts more malware alerts and page pre-loads 09 February, 2012 08:22:00
Patches 20 vulnerabilities, pays $10,500 in bounties to four bug huntersGoogle today patched 20 vulnerabilities in the desktop edition of Chrome and added new anti-malware download warnings to version 17.
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