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Article | 1/12/2010 DoS attacks hammer WikiLeaks for second day running
WikiLeaks, the focus of attention since it released a quarter-million U.S. diplomatic cables two days ago, is again under a denial-of-service (DoS) at...
Article | 30/11/2010 China blocks access to WikiLeaks
China has blocked Internet access to WikiLeaks' release of more than 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it...
Article | 30/11/2010 WikiLeaks moves to Amazon servers after DOS attacks
After several denial of service (DOS) attacks hit it over the weekend, WikiLeaks is now being hosted by Amazon servers in the U.S. and Ireland, IP tra...
Article | 30/11/2010 Courts shut down 82 sites for alleged copyright violations
Two U.S. government agencies have obtained seizure orders for the domain names of 82 websites accused of selling products that infringe copyright law,...
Article | 25/11/2010 EU Parliament approves once-secret ACTA copyright treaty
After 11 rounds of international negotiations, the final text of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has overcome its biggest...
Article | 24/11/2010 Tim Berners-Lee criticises Web leaders
Tim Berners-Lee, credited with creating the Web, has warned that social-networking sites, efforts to prioritize Web traffic and closed systems such as...
Article | 24/11/2010 Jury orders Seagate to pay $1.9M to former employee
A federal jury this month awarded awarded a former Seagate Technology engineer $1.9 million, in a wrongful employment case.
Article | 24/11/2010 Biggest threat to Internet is government, warns group
Increased government control is the biggest risk to the future of the Internet, according to the Internet Society.
Article | 24/11/2010 Trade agency to investigate Apple's patent complaint
The U.S. International Trade Commission has voted to investigate a smartphone patent complaint brought by Apple against Motorola, the latest action in...
Article | 18/11/2010 China telecom operator denies hijacking Internet traffic
China's largest fixed-line phone carrier has denied it hijacked worldwide Internet traffic this past April following a U.S. government report that sai...
Article | 18/11/2010 Experts: Stuxnet changed the cybersecurity landscape
The appearance of the Stuxnet worm in June should serve as a wake-up call to governments and businesses, especially those relying on Internet-based in...
Article | 17/11/2010 Juniper defends poky pace on IPv6-enabling its Web site
It's surprising that Juniper will admit to being two years behind arch-rival Cisco at anything, let alone a development related to IPv6, the next-gene...
Article | 13/11/2010 U.S. building next wave of supercomputers
The U.S. is building two 20-petaflop supercomputers, many times more powerful than anything operating today, including China's new supercomputer, the ...
Article | 13/11/2010 Sarah Palin hacker Kernell gets one-year sentence
The former college student who guessed his way into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account during the 2008 U.S. presidential election was sentenced to a y...
Article | 11/11/2010 HP to pay $16M to settle E-Rate fraud charges
Hewlett-Packard will pay $16.25 million to settle a case that resulted in jail time for a school district's former chief technology officer and comput...