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Article | 9/12/2010 WikiLeaks founder praised by Pentagon Papers exposer
Daniel Ellsberg, the man responsible for outing the now famous Pentagon Papers in 1971, and a group of ex-intelligence officers have thrown their weig...
Article | 25/08/2010 County will rip and replace ailing SAP system
Officials in Marin County, California, decided on Tuesday to replace the county's ailing SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) system, an option that...
Article | 6/08/2010 US sends message to IT industry to play fair
Wednesday's antitrust settlement between Intel and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission sends a strong message to IT companies not to exploit their domin...
Article | 27/07/2010 New Google Apps service targets gov't security needs
Google on Monday unveiled a new version of Google Apps designed to meet the rigorous security needs of U.S. government agencies.
Article | 20/05/2010 Judge permanently shuts down ISP catering to spam, porn
A U.S. district court judge has ordered the permanent closure of an Internet service provider long accused of hosting and distributing spam, spyware, ...
Article | 20/05/2010 US lawmakers target The Pirate Bay, other sites
The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, a group of U.S. lawmakers concerned with copyright infringement, has listed The Pirate Bay and fiv...
Article | 19/05/2010 Cloud service users face confusing legal landscape
Cloud computing has great benefits for businesses but legal uncertainties threaten to hamper adoption, said a group of lawyers speaking during a semin...
Article | 17/05/2010 US trade agency to investigate Apple's patent complaint
The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate complaints by Apple that Eastman Kodak violated its patents related to digital imaging device...
Article | 17/05/2010 Security guard pleads guilty to hacking his employer
A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer's computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital.
Article | 5/05/2010 Lawmakers unveil online privacy legislation
Two U.S. lawmakers have released a draft bill that would require companies that collect personal information from customers to disclose how they colle...
Article | 26/03/2010 Gonzalez sentenced for multimillion-dollar credit card scam
As his parents and sister silently wept, hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year sti...
Article | 25/03/2010 Proposed US law would single out cybercrime havens
A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate Tuesday would compel the White House to identify international cybercrime havens and establish plans for cleaning...
Article | 11/03/2010 US expert: Chinese gov't likely behind massive cyberattacks
The Chinese government is likely behind recent cyberattacks on U.S. government Web sites and on U.S. companies in an apparent effort to quash criticis...
Article | 9/03/2010 US lifts Iran, Sudan, Cuba Internet services export ban
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has loosened controls on the export of Internet-based communication services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba, in an effort...
Article | 24/02/2010 Security expert: US would lose cyberwar
The U.S. government, if confronted in a cyberwar today, would not come out on top, a former U.S. director of national intelligence said Tuesday.