Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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Data privacy Bill in suspended animation
Government is making haste slowly to enact the Protection of Personal Information Bill that will fundamentally alter the way companies handle data related to clients and staff.
Agency workers do not have automatic employees rights, even after years
Agency workers do not have the same rights as employees, the Court of Appeal has ruled, handing businesses a victory in ongoing struggles about employees' rights.
Boardroom: Minimizing Directors' Liability When Raising Capital
If, after raising money through the issuance of stock, the company's stock price swoons, certainly there would be exposure to directors. A lawsuit would likely claim that the directors should have known that something untoward would happen to the stock and to the value of the new investors
Lawyer Seeks Trademark Protection for "Cyberlaw"
Eric Menhart, a recently sworn-in D.C. technology attorney, applied for trademark rights on the term 'cyberlaw,' which also happens to be the name of his personal firm. It has caused a lawyerly outcry among the industry's bloggers, who say the well-worn word clearly belongs in the public domain.
RIAA Sends More "Prelitigation" Letters to Universities
The Recording Industry of America is nearing the one-year anniversary of dispatching 'prelitigation' letters to alleged pirates on college campuses nationwide. And it's showing no signs of slowing down, celebrating -- not surprisingly -- by firing off a new wave of 401 legal threats to 12 major universities from coast to coast.
Woman Finds "Private" Photos Disclosed on Flickr
About four months ago Meredith Massey uploaded three pictures of her children skinny-dipping, along with more than 50 other photos, to the online photo site Flickr. She marked those untitled and unclothed pictures 'private' for her parents' eyes only. But a couple of weeks ago, the District woman discovered the selected snapshots had been viewed thousands of times, while other photos had about 20 hits.
Microsoft Vows Not to Sue Open-Source Developers
Microsoft's top executives detailed steps they say will help the software giant comply with antitrust legal requirements and operate more harmoniously in a world of interconnected software. Microsoft announced that it will publish reams of documentation around its communication protocols to make it easier for third parties to connect to Microsoft products, and it also pledged not to sue open-source developers who create noncommercial software based on Microsoft's protocols.
BAKERSFIELD LAW STUDENT SENTENCED IN EMAIL HARASSMENT SCHEME
United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that VICTOR VEVEA, 43, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to three years of probation with a condition that he serve 90 days of monitored home confinement. VEVEA had been found guilty on January 24, 2008 of unlawfully accessing the e-mail account of Bakersfield attorney Michael Kilpatrick for the purpose of sending out harassing e-mails in Kilpatrick’s name.
Lawsuit targets Lifeblood : Local News
A lawsuit has been filed against Lifeblood, Mid-South Regional Blood Center, after laptop computers with personal information of roughly 321,000 blood donors came up missing and are presumed stolen.
International hacking network busted, Quebec police say
Quebec provincial police say they've dismantled a computer hacking network that targeted unprotected personal computers around the world.
Lords look again at internet security
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has announced a follow-up inquiry to its 'Personal Internet Security' report
Banks: Losses From Computer Intrusions Up in 2007 - Security Fix
U.S. financial institutions reported a sizable increase last year in the number of computer intrusions that led to online bank account takeovers and stolen funds, according to data obtained by Security Fix. The data also suggest such incidents are becoming far more costly for banks, businesses and consumers alike.
Child-Porn Cases Complicated by Digital Photo Law
Although challenges to digital photos come in all types of criminal and civil cases, they are especially pronounced in child-pornography cases because of a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a ban on computer-generated child pornography. Defense attorneys are trying to use the ruling to introduce reasonable doubt in jurors' minds about the images' authenticity.
Cybersquatting Up 33% in Past Year, MarkMonitor Says
Cybersquatting' -- the use of domain names designed to mimic those of large brands -- is up 33 percent compared with a year ago, according to a study by MarkMonitor. The cybersquatters often use misspellings in website addresses to attract visitors looking for big-name brands. They make money through pay-per-click advertising or selling counterfeit products.
Network Solutions, ICANN Sued Over "Front Running"
A Los Angeles firm has announced a class action against Network Solutions and ICANN over the former's practice of locking up domain names as soon as they are searched for on its site, which means the party searching can buy the name only from Network Solutions. They're also suing ICANN for failing to stop what is known in the industry as 'front running.
Web 2.0: Portals in a Web 2.0 World
Web 2.0 refers primarily to two major paradigm shifts in the way people use the Web: thin client computing and user-generated content. The portal plays a pivotal role in both areas. In thin client computing, data and applications are stored on Web servers, and a user has access from any computer via a Web browser, thus turning the Web into a gigantic application server -- a penultimate manifestation of Web 2.0.
ID Security: Who's Winning the ID Theft War?
One study says ID fraud is on a downward trend; another indicates it's staying about the same. Determining how much ID theft is occurring and how often ID fraud is perpetrated can depend on one's point of view. A lot depends on how the researchers doing the studies define what they are surveying.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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Stealthy Adobe Reader update fixes mystery security bugs | The Register
Adobe has pushed out a stealthy - but important - update to its Reader software that fixes a number of unspecified security problems.
Hacker holds onto ill-gotten gains thanks to US courts | The Register
Oleksandr Dorozhko made almost $300,000 in stock-option trading by using insider information that was obtained after someone hacked into the network of a company called IMS Health. Now, the Ukrainian resident is exploiting a loophole that may allow him to keep the ill-gotten gains for good.
Drive-by download menace spreading fast | The Register
Booby-trapped web pages are growing at an alarming rate with unsuspecting firms acting for nurseries for botnet farmers, according to a new study.
US Data Breaches Quadruple in 2007
Information management is critically important to all of us – as employees and consumers. For that reason, the Identity Theft Resource Center has been tracking security breaches for the past three years, looking for patterns, new trends and any information that may help us better protect data and assist companies in their activities.
HP Laptops Spring (Another) Security Leak
A successful attack can cause system files to be 'unrecoverably destroyed' or Windows systems to be unbootable.
Facebook Deleting Inactive Users Hoax
Message claims that Facebook is becoming overpopulated and that members who do not send the information to others within two weeks will have their accounts deleted.
Trojan.Qhost.WU Removal Instructions
Trojan.Qhost.WU is a new deceptive method used to push rogue anti-spyware programs. Trojan.Qhost.WU is a malicious trojan that hijacks Google Adsense by modifying your computer's Hosts file. Once you click on the fake Google ads, you're redirected to a rogue anti-spyware website where your computer is exposed to more dangerous code being downloaded.
UK bank blames fraudsters for World of Warcraft ban [printer-friendly] | The Register
Frequent use of stolen credit cards to pay for World of Warcraft subscription has prompted UK bank Halifax to block payments to the game's publisher, Blizzard Entertainment.
Legal attack dogs chase software pirates from eBay [printer-friendly] | Channel Register
The lawsuits, filed in US District Court in the Northern District of California, are the biggest round filed to date by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). They're part of the SIIA's Auction Litigation Program, which monitors eBay and other sites for sales of pirated software. The program has already nabbed other pirates, the group says.
Legal attack dogs chase software pirates from eBay [printer-friendly] | Channel Register
The lawsuits, filed in US District Court in the Northern District of California, are the biggest round filed to date by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). They're part of the SIIA's Auction Litigation Program, which monitors eBay and other sites for sales of pirated software. The program has already nabbed other pirates, the group says.
F.B.I. Gained Unauthorized Access to E-Mail - New York Times
A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national security investigation, according to an internal report of the 2006 episode.
San Jose councilman's former intern accused of hacking into city e-mail - San Jose Mercury News
An 18-year-old former intern to San Jose Councilman Sam Liccardo is facing a felony charge that he illegally hacked into the city's e-mail system more than 100 times looking for political dirt to spread about his former boss's girlfriend.
Nanny agency hacker fined [printer-friendly] | The Register
A woman who admitted rifling through emails in AOL accounts maintained by her former employer, Nannies Inc, while working for a competitor agency, has been fined £500 plus £60 costs.
Ukrainian hacker may get to keep profits
A Ukrainian hacker may be allowed to keep over $250,000 in profits owing to a loophole in US law.
Teen pushed adware to hundreds of thousands of PCs
'Sobe' to serve time for scheme to make money by surreptitiously planting adware on large numbers of computers.
Net firms reject monitoring role
UK net firms are resisting government suggestions that they should do more to monitor what customers do online.
IT standards 'world class'
The Mark Shuttleworth Foundation has congratulated government on its world-class Information Technology (IT) standards, in a statement sent to the Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi.
Cable theft nails Telkom
SA fixed-line operator Telkom lost at least R571 million in the 2007 financial year due to cable theft.
Internet security breach at Vodacom
The country’s biggest cellphone company has been forced to fix an embarrassing security breech, which allowed Internet users access to customers’ confidential call records.
'Whistleblower' website shut by US court over bank documents
A website designed to let whistleblowers publish sensitive documents has been ordered shut down by a US federal judge at the request of a Swiss bank and its Cayman Islands subsidiary, court documents showed Monday.
Google SA unveils its plans
Google believes you should be able to advertise a business idea online, so it is taking its search engine mobile.
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Monday, February 18, 2008
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GigaLaw.com Daily News: BitTorrent Criticizes Comcast Over Internet Throttling
BitTorrent and other companies that provide bulk file distribution lashed out at Comcast, saying the throttling of peer-to-peer connections is a naked attempt to harm video services that compete with cable TV. Comcast's throttling 'not only affects BitTorrent but also affects the hundreds of companies that use BitTorrent technology,' Eric Klinker, the company's chief technology officer, told reporters.
GigaLaw.com Daily News: BitTorrent Criticizes Comcast Over Internet Throttling
BitTorrent and other companies that provide bulk file distribution lashed out at Comcast, saying the throttling of peer-to-peer connections is a naked attempt to harm video services that compete with cable TV. Comcast's throttling 'not only affects BitTorrent but also affects the hundreds of companies that use BitTorrent technology,' Eric Klinker, the company's chief technology officer, told reporters.
GigaLaw.com Daily News: BitTorrent Criticizes Comcast Over Internet Throttling
BitTorrent and other companies that provide bulk file distribution lashed out at Comcast, saying the throttling of peer-to-peer connections is a naked attempt to harm video services that compete with cable TV. Comcast's throttling 'not only affects BitTorrent but also affects the hundreds of companies that use BitTorrent technology,' Eric Klinker, the company's chief technology officer, told reporters.
Software Group Files Nine Lawsuits Over eBay Sales
Online auction giant eBay has been slow to respond to concerns about pirated software being sold there, prompting the Software & Information Industry Association to file nine lawsuits against eBay-based software sellers, an SIIA official said. The SIIA believes it is necessary to file the lawsuits, because eBay has been largely uncooperative in cracking down on software piracy, said Keith Kupferschmid, senior vice president of the trade group's antipiracy division.
Software Group Files Nine Lawsuits Over eBay Sales
Online auction giant eBay has been slow to respond to concerns about pirated software being sold there, prompting the Software & Information Industry Association to file nine lawsuits against eBay-based software sellers, an SIIA official said. The SIIA believes it is necessary to file the lawsuits, because eBay has been largely uncooperative in cracking down on software piracy, said Keith Kupferschmid, senior vice president of the trade group's antipiracy division.
Judge Says MySpace Request May Violate Protection Order
In a case of apparent first impression, a New York judge has ruled that a MySpace 'friend request' can constitute a violation of a temporary order of protection. 'While it is true that the person who received the 'friend request' could simply deny the request to become 'friends,' that request was still a contact,' the judge wrote.
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
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Waspa defends Vodacom
The Wireless Application Service Providers' Association (Waspa) has defended Vodacom's controversial “100 cars in 100 days” competition, saying it does not consider it to be an illegal lottery.
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Friday, February 15, 2008
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Israeli Town Sues Google for Slander Over Map
An Israeli town is suing Internet giant Google for slander, a local official said, because a feature of its worldwide map service shows the town was built on the ruins of an Arab village. Officials from the town, Kiryat Yam, deny they displaced Arabs during the war that followed Israel's creation in 1948, and Google is defending the practice of allowing any surfer to change information in its files.
Writers End Strike, Get Flat Fee for Online Streaming
Members of the Writers Guild of America members voted overwhelmingly to lift the union's strike order, allowing the industry to jump-start stalled production of numerous TV sitcoms and dramas. Under the tentative agreement, writers would get a maximum flat fee of about $1,200 for programs streamed on the Internet in the deal's first two years and then get 2 percent of a distributor's gross in year three -- a key union demand.
Computer Vulnerabilities Decreased, ISS Reports
A new Internet security analysis finds that computer vulnerabilities decreased last year for perhaps the first time, though the researchers behind the report caution that there has been no improvement in Web safety. The annual 'X-Force' report, released by Internet Security Systems, part of IBM, says network and software vendors acknowledged 6,437 security flaws in 2007, down 5.4% from the prior year.
Court rules web trolls can stay anonymous
An appeals court in California has ruled that the individual behind anonymous posts on a Yahoo message board cannot be identified.
14,000 victims of child benefit discs fiasco sign up to website that 'could win them £300'
Chancellor Alistair Darling admitted that discs containing information on families were lost in the postFamilies listed on the missing child benefit data discs are signing up to a website which could land the Government with a £7.5billion compensation bill.
Russia emerges as spam superpower, as Asia and Europe overtake North America
IT security and control firm Sophos has published its latest report on the top twelve spam-relaying countries over the final quarter of 2007. Experts at SophosLabs scanned all spam messages received in the company's global network of spam traps, and have revealed a dramatic rise in the proportion of the world's spam messages being sent from compromised Russian computers.
EBay Agrees to Buy Back Stolen Historical Documents
Documents dating from the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen documents sold online that eBay is agreeing to buy back and return to New York's archives, a state official said. The online auction giant has no liability in the sale of the stolen artifacts, but agreed voluntarily to offer buyers the amount that they paid, according to the official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because not all details of the investigation have been announced.
Spanish Police Detain 76 in Internet Fraud Probe
Police in Spain have detained 76 people acrosss the country as part of what they described as their biggest-ever probe into Internet fraud. The suspects defrauded their victions of over three million euros (four million US dollars), police said in a statement.
U.S. Groups Add Canada to List of Top Infringers
Canada has joined China and Russia on the U.S. software, music and movie industries' annual list of countries with the worst record of fighting piracy of copyright goods, an industry coalition said. 'While there has been a few positive developments in these key markets over the year, the bottom line is that piracy levels have not come down at all or only marginally, and in some countries the situation has grown worse,' Eric Smith, president of the International Intellectual Property Alliance, said in a statement.
Number of Malicious Programs Online Reaches Record
The number of malicious programs found online has reached an unprecedented high, say security firms. Reports vary but some estimates suggest there were five times as many variants of malicious programs in circulation in 2007 compared to 2006.
Microsoft forgers get jail time in Taiwan
A counterfeiting operation that Microsoft claims was responsible for 90 per cent of faked Microsoft software has been sent up the river in Taiwan.
Another US spammer hit by CAN-SPAM
A US judge has ordered a Las Vegas company to stop making weight-loss and anti-ageing claims and to stop sending spam, the Federal Trade Commission has announced.
U.S., Laptop Owner Battle Over Encryption Program
The government wants a man arrested at the U.S.-Canadian border to give up the password to his laptop, but doing so could violate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination by revealing the contents of the files. Experts say the case could have broad computer privacy implications for people who cross borders with computers, PDAs and other devices that are subject to inspection.
Court Lets Internet Poster Keep Identity Anonymous
A California appeals court said an anonymous Internet poster does not have to reveal his identity after being sued for making 'scathing verbal attacks' against executives at a Florida company on a Yahoo! Inc. message board. The Sixth Appellate District in Santa Clara County reversed a trial court ruling that would have allowed a former executive at SFBC International Inc. to subpoena Yahoo! for the names of her critics.
Intelligence Officials Warn Of Risks in "Virtual Worlds"
U.S. intelligence officials are cautioning that popular Internet services that enable computer users to adopt cartoon-like personas in three-dimensional online spaces also are creating security vulnerabilities by opening novel ways for terrorists and criminals to move money, organize and conduct corporate espionage. Over the last few years, 'virtual worlds' such as Second Life and other role-playing games have become home to millions of computer-generated personas known as avatars.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
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'Illegal lottery' rocks Vodacom: South Africa: News: Companies: Fin24
Vodacom clients who have run up debt totalling hundreds of thousands of rands while taking part in a competition to win one of 100 BMWs, may have been taking part in an illegal lottery.
Vodacom shows us how not to do a promotion
100 BMWs in 100 days? It's a big idea. Dangle the prospect of winning a BMW a day fo three months in front of notoriously luxury German sedan-mad South Africans, charge them R10 an sms, promote it aggressively, and then wait and see what happens.
Vodacom in hot water
Cellular giant Vodacom has been accused of operating an illegal lottery in the guise of its “100 cars in 100 days” competition.
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Friday, February 08, 2008
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Spear phishers target US students
A new spear phishing attack is targeting the email accounts of US university students. Researchers at Sans Institute said that the attacks are disguised as messages from administrators performing a 'database update'.
Media Sentry accused of violating NYS law - and some affidavits
Something interesting has happened regarding Media Sentry in the case of Lava Records v. Amurao. There is a motion to exclude Media Sentry testimony from that NY case on the grounds that Media Sentry is not licensed from New York State to operate as a private investigator and that therefore testimony based on Media Sentry's work should be excluded as illegally obtained. Here's the memorandum of law in support [PDF]. Doesn't it seem like the playing field is getting a bit more even? That it's not such a walk in the park for the RIAA as it used to be?
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Washington Field Division - Press Release - United States Department of Justice Press Release
Weiss Rasool, age 30, a Sergeant with the Fairfax County, Virginia, Police Department, pled guilty today to a criminal information charging him with Unauthorized Computer Access. Chuck Rosenberg, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Washington Field Office, made the announcement after Rasool’s guilty plea was accepted by United States Magistrate Judge Barry R. Poretz. Rasool faces a maximum of one year in prison, a fine of $100,000, and one year of supervised release when he is sentenced on April 15, 2008.
Judge Grills E-Mail-Deleting Texas DA
An embattled prosecutor facing a contempt charge for deleting e-mails was grilled Friday by a federal judge who said he should have known better than to erase material he had been ordered to turn over.
Broadcasters not ready for DTT
South African broadcasters are not yet ready to migrate from analogue to digital terrestrial TV (DTT) services, even though the switch-on is scheduled to take place in nine months.
The law that binds us
New regulations require companies to establish and document business controls, procedures for tracking and reporting material business information, and procedures and systems for ensuring compliance and auditing.
DTI to decide on Internet gambling advertising rules
Parliamentary Information Service reports that in a meeting of the NCOP Economic and Foreign Affairs Committee on 30 January, negotiating mandates from the various provinces on the National Gambling Amendment Bill were considered.
The future is open
Despite Microsoft's apparent anti-competitive practices, open source software has in recent years begun to move into the mainstream marketplace.
Load shedding increases hosting demand
Internet Solutions has installed more hosting space in 2007 than in their previous 10 years of existence.
New gadget website launched
New South African gadget website was launched recently, aimed at keeping gadget enthusiasts up to speed with the latest developments.
Commoditising bandwidth
LOVE IT OR HATE IT, the State's involvement in telecoms seems set to stay. And so we get Broadband Infraco, one of its answers to bringing down prices.
Microsoft warns of upcoming auto-update
Microsoft has given users of its Office 2003 application suite a warning that it will begin pushing the software’s Service Pack 3 via Microsoft Update next month.
ID Security: The Cost of ID Theft, Part 1: Beyond Dollars and Cents
The ultimate cost to ID theft victims varies across industries, Uriel Maimon, senior researcher for the software firm RSA, told the E-Commerce Times. 'In the banking and electronic commerce industries, the end user is usually indemnified, and most of the damage is done to the business. The end users are usually affected by the trauma and paperwork of the experience but can usually recuperate most of their losses.
Tech Stew: Technology and Sports: Blurring the Line Between Virtual and Reality
Already, there are glimpses of 3-D technology in sports and entertainment, notes James Oliver of Iowa State University. More movies are being shown in 3-D, including this month's release of U2 3D featuring concert footage from the rock group U2. The Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum in London features cinematic techniques designed to give the sensation of seeing championship tennis in 3-D.
Vonage's Top Lawyer Departing After Patent Settlements
Vonage Holdings Corp. said Sharon O'Leary, the company's chief legal officer, will leave at the end of the first quarter. Ms. O'Leary's departure comes after Vonage's recent patent settlements with other telecom companies.
Microsoft Doesn't Strongly Enforce Patents, Torvalds Says
Microsoft's aggressive defense of its intellectual property, which includes claims that Linux violates a number of its patents, is nothing more than 'a marketing thing,' according to Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel. 'They have been sued for patents by other people, but I don't think they've -- not that I've gone through any huge amount of law cases -- but I don't think they've generally used patents as a weapon,' Torvalds said.
MySpace Wins Controversial Domain Name Dispute
MySpace has won the right to have the MySpace.co.uk domain name despite another firm having registered it six years before the social networking website launched. The ruling, by domain registry Nominet's dispute resolution service, has caused controversy in the industry because Total Web Solutions of Stockport registered the myspace.co.uk name in 1997, long before the U.S. social networking website launched.
Danish Court Orders Access to Pirate Bay Blocked
A Danish court has ordered Denmark-based Internet service provider Tele2 to shut down its customers' access to the popular file-sharing site Pirate Bay, Danish IT magazine Computerworld reported. Computerworld said on its Web site that a court had ordered Denmark's Tele2 -- one of the Nordic country's largest Internet providers -- to close access to the site at the request of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
New Cable Cut Adds to Global Internet Troubles
A submarine cable in the Middle East has been snapped, adding to global net problems caused by breaks in two lines under the Mediterranean. The Falcon cable, owned by a firm which operates another damaged cable, led to a 'critical' telecom breakdown, according to one local official.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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Man Arrested for Selling Marijuana on Craigslist
If you're looking to sell high-grade marijuana, Craigslist may not be the place to do it. A man learned that the hard way when the 'buyer' who contacted him turned out to be an undercover officer, Stamford police said.
Prosecutor Grilled by Judge for Deleting E-mails
An embattled prosecutor facing a contempt charge for deleting e-mails was grilled by a federal judge who said he should have known better than to erase material he had been ordered to turn over. 'In fact, it can be a crime to destroy documents, can't it?' U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt asked Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal.
Google Says Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Poses Threats
Google said that Microsoft's proposed $44.6 billion takeover of Yahoo could pose a number of potential threats to competition that need to be examined by policymakers around the world. Google said in a blog post on its Web site that given Microsoft's anti-competitive conduct in the past and its continued dominance in the technology industry, the proposed transaction could pose threats to 'innovation and openness' on the Internet.
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Saturday, February 02, 2008
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Lawyers Want High Court to Review Child Porn Law
Criminal defense lawyers say they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a novel legal approach the government has begun using to win stiff mandatory prison terms for those who've downloaded child pornography from file-sharing sites. At issue is a new interpretation of a 1986 law, amended in 2003 under the Protect Act, intended to curb child-porn advertising by imposing a mandatory 15-year prison term on anyone convicted of publishing 'notice' offering to distribute kid porn across state lines.
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Friday, February 01, 2008
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MP calls for law to force online shops to verify age | OUT-LAW.COM
A bill has been introduced in Parliament which would force online retailers to check customers' ages before selling goods that cannot be sold to children.
Don't expect privacy law overhaul in the wake of HMRC | OUT-LAW.COM
Data protection, privacy and information law have never been so high profile as in recent months. Following the loss of 25 million people's personal details by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), there has been what seems like a tide of gaffe after slip-up, all resulting in private personal details spilling out into the public domain.
GigaLaw.com Daily News: Judge Lifts Part of Ban on Blogging Lawyer
A controversial gag order that silenced a man acquitted in the high-profile Liberty Seven terrorism case in Miami and his attorney -- and blogger -- David O. Markus, has been partially lifted. U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard had placed a gag order on Lyglenson Lemorin and Markus at the request of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami, but now Markus and Lemorin can speak about immigration issues affecting him.
Damaged Cable Limits Internet Access in Middle East
Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East after an undersea cable in the Mediterranean was damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said. In Cairo, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said the cut in the international communications cable had led to a partial disruption of Internet services and other telecommunications across much of Egypt.
RIAA President Not Pushing for Laws for ISPs
It's no secret that Recording Industry Association of America President Cary Sherman despises piracy, and he's a vocal fan of proposed laws that would beef up penalties for copyright infringers. But here's one area where he says the government need not intervene at this point: forcing Internet service providers to be more proactive in curbing pirated content on their networks.
Researchers Fault Microsoft on Windows Vulnerability
Security researchers said they'd discredited Microsoft's claim that the year's first critical Windows vulnerability would be 'difficult and unlikely' to be exploited by attackers. Immunity updated a working exploit for the TCP/IP flaw spelled out Jan. 8 in Microsoft's MS08-001 security bulletin, and posted a Flash demonstration of the attack on its Web site.
Countries can choose whether or not to force disclosure of file-sharers | OUT-LAW.COM
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled today that EU law does not force the disclosure of internet users' details in file-sharing cases. The judgment will be a blow to record labels but could also put ISPs in the UK at a commercial disadvantage, a copyright expert has said.
Closing of cybersquatting loophole is 'excellent news' for brand owners | OUT-LAW.COM
The organisation in charge of the internet's addressing systems wants to change the charging structure for global domain names to put an end to a multimillion pound business that takes advantage of a loophole in its rules.
Internet failure hits two continents
High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
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