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FCC Chairman Seeks To Discipline Comcast

2008-07-14T10:34:00-04:00

In what may be an early test of enforcing open-access rules for the Internet, the head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that he will seek to have Comcast punished for violating openness guarantees.

According to the Associated Press, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said his agency "has adopted a set of principles that protects customers' access to the Internet," and Comcast violated those principles. The FCC policy to which Martin refers is a 2005 set of principles. ... Go to source

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DNS hole prompts synchronized patching effort by IT vendors

2008-07-09T10:37:00-04:00

In a rare synchronized security move, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and other IT vendors today released software patches aimed at addressing a fundamental design flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol used to direct traffic on the Internet.

The so-called DNS cache poisoning flaw was discovered earlier this year by Dan Kaminsky, a researcher at security services firm IOActive Inc., but it wasn't publicized until today. The vulnerability could allow attackers to redirect Web traffic and e-mails to systems under their control, according to Kaminsky, who said in an interview that the flaw exists at the DNS protocol level and affects numerous products from multiple vendors. ... Go to source

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Sweatshirt helps nail Citibank card scammer

2008-07-07T05:18:00-04:00

A bank-card scammer using stolen Citibank account numbers and PINs netted hundreds of thousands of dollars, but was caught because he didn't spend enough on clothes, according to court documents.

Yuriy Ryabinin, who is charged with unauthorized use of the account information, was identified by the FBI because he always wore the same distinctive sweatshirt when he made the illegal withdrawals. ... Go to source

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Google is doing WHAT?

2008-07-07T05:17:00-04:00

With a skyrocketing stock price, fanboy hysteria and -- most importantly -- really useful products, Google Inc. is the prima donna of tech for the new millennium.

The company is so active that it's hard to keep track of everything it does. And, just when you get a good handle on its litany of Web applications, promising lab innovations and unheralded research projects, it seems to turn on a dime -- a difficult move for a $167 billion company with 19,000 employees -- and invent something new. Who would have thought a search site company would get involved in laying a fiber-optic undersea cable between the U.S. and Japan? ... Go to source

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