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FCC Chairman Seeks To Discipline Comcast
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David_Dunlap on 14 July, 2008 01:34:00
 
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.

DNS hole prompts synchronized patching effort by IT vendors
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David_Dunlap on 09 July, 2008 01:37:00
 
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.

Sweatshirt helps nail Citibank card scammer
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David_Dunlap on 06 July, 2008 08:18:00
 
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.

Google is doing WHAT?
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David_Dunlap on 06 July, 2008 08:17:00
 
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.