By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 26 Jun, 2009
A bill in the U.S. Senate that would allow President Barack Obama to shut down parts of the Internet during a cybersecurity crisis will likely be rewritten and needs input from private businesses, said a congressional staff member associated with the legislation. read more »
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 24 Jun, 2009
A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a computer hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to U.S. government contractor Northrop Grumman. read more »
By Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld (US) 24 Jun, 2009
TJX Companies has agreed to pay for investigations by 41 states into a massive data breach that gave hackers access to data stored on as many as 94 million payment cards used by TJX customers. read more »
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World (US) 24 Jun, 2009
Internet policymakers are forging ahead with a controversial plan to introduce hundreds of generic top-level domains -- such as .nyc, .sport and .food -- next year. read more »
Despite attempts to consolidate Internet traffic, the Iranian government has so far been unwilling to shut down its entire Internet infrastructure, according to analysis from security vendor Arbor Networks. read more »
By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service\Paris Bureau 18 Jun, 2009
Google has agreed to delete some of the original, unblurred photographs captured by its German Street View service, ceding to demands by Hamburg's Data Protection Office. read more »
Apple yesterday patched 32 vulnerabilities in its implementation of Java; Sun fixed the same flaws for Windows and Linux users more than six months ago. read more »
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service\London Bureau 10 Jun, 2009
Computers infected with malicious software remain a big headache for ISPs, but two companies have designed systems that have made the problem much more manageable. read more »
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 3 Jun, 2009
The online advertising industry and U.S. policy makers need to give online users more control over the collection of personal data and surfing habits beyond the traditional opt-out approach, some privacy advocates said Wednesday. read more »
The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
