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Article | 20/03/2013 Experts: Iran and North Korea are looming cyberthreats to U.S.

Cyberattacks supposedly originating from China have raised alarms in recent weeks, but U.S. businesses and government agencies should worry as much ab...

Article | 20/03/2013 ICANN's CEO encourages global engagement

U.S. advocates for a free global Internet need to reach out to other nations to encourage their participation in open governance bodies like the Inter...

Article | 19/03/2013 Microsoft taking bribery allegations 'seriously'

Microsoft is taking seriously allegations that business partners engaged in bribery to gain government contracts in three countries outside the US, th...

Article | 19/03/2013 Lawmakers call for greater protections from e-surveillance

If U.S. law enforcement agencies agree to changes in electronic surveillance law to better protect the privacy of stored email and documents, they wan...

Article | 19/03/2013 Supreme Court reaffirms resale of copyright works

U.S. residents have the right to resell software and other products protected by copyright even when they are manufactured overseas, the U.S. Supreme ...

Article | 19/03/2013 US defense scientist bought pirated software from Russians, Chinese, DOJ says

The former chief scientist at a Kentucky defense contractor has been sentenced to a year in prison for buying pirated software from Russian and Chines...

Article | 15/03/2013 Two charged with gift-card hacking scheme

Two California men face charges in Massachusetts of hacking into point-of-sale computers at Subway restaurants and adding more than US$40,000 in value...

Article | 14/03/2013 Tech companies tell Congress to target patent trolls

The U.S. Congress needs to shut down so-called patent trolls whose infringement lawsuits are diverting company resources from hiring and research, a g...

Article | 14/03/2013 US NIST's vulnerability database hacked

A U.S. government computer vulnerability database and several other websites at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been down for ...

Article | 13/03/2013 Lawmakers: Tougher computer hacking laws may be needed

The U.S. Congress may need to create stiffer penalties for criminal computer hacking to deter the growing number of attacks on U.S. government agencie...

Article | 12/03/2013 Third mobile-phone-unlocking bill introduced

Momentum is growing in the U.S. Congress to overturn a U.S. Library of Congress ruling that took mobile phone unlocking out of the legal exemptions to...

Article | 12/03/2013 Intelligence officials see cyberattacks as a top US threat

Cyberattacks are near the top of the list of most serious threats facing the U.S., with the rivaling concerns about terrorism and North Korea, intelli...

Article | 11/03/2013 Experts: What to expect after cybersecurity executive order

U.S. government agencies will need the help of companies while developing a set of cybersecurity standards that President Barack Obama has called for ...

Article | 8/03/2013 FTC: Mobile carriers should take steps to fight bill cramming

Mobile carriers should deploy a number of safeguards to protect their customers against a growing problem of unauthorized billing through mobile payme...

Article | 7/03/2013 US FTC cracks down on text spam

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed eight complaints against companies allegedly involved in sending unsolicited text messages offering free g...