Criminals Love Unsecured Wi-Fi
According to federal and state law enforcement, criminals have begun using the unsecured Wi-Fi networks of unsuspecting consumers and businesses to cover their tracks. Incidents involving fraud,...
View ArticleSarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Basel II Driving Big IT Crazy
Regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and Basel II are driving IT departments in corporate America crazy. InfoWorld and Silicon.com take a look at the software and tools that are...
View ArticleInterview with PyMusique Developer
Neowin.net has posted an interview with the head developer of PyMusique, a program that lets user's buy songs from Apple's iTunes Music Store completely free of digital rights management (DRM)...
View ArticleBillionaire Mark Cuban To Finance Grokster Defense
Mark Cuban, the dot-com billionaire who founded and sold Broadcast.com, has said that he will pay for Grokster's legal defense in the peer-to-peer lawsuit brought by MGM. This very important case will...
View ArticleP2P Battle To Take Center Stage in U.S. Supreme Court
On Tuesday, the highest court in the land will begin hearing arguments in the case of MGM Studios v. Grokster. This important case pits all the major movie studios and record labels against Grokster...
View ArticleInterview with Richard M. Stallman
OFB sat down to talk with Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and author of the GPL open source license. Topics discussed included Linux, GPL, intellectual property, the Free...
View ArticleHow To Respond To A Security Breach
TechNet Magazine has published a good article outlining the measures that need to be taken in response to a computer security breach. See how each of the steps including post-mortem, response,...
View ArticleOnline Dating Sites May Soon Be Regulated in Some States
The State of Florida is debating legislation that would regulate online dating sites by forcing them to disclose information about what kind of member screening measures are in force at each particular...
View ArticleDVR Makers Targeted By Patent Claims
Manufacturers of digital video recorder (DVR) devices and software applications are now the targets of patent claims by Forgent Networks. The outcome may determine which features can continue to be...
View ArticleSpammer Who Was Making $750K Per Month Sentenced To 9 Years
One of the nation's biggest spammers has been sentenced to 9 years in prison. According to court records, his spamming operation was grossing about $750,000 per month by sending out at least 10 million...
View ArticleWTO Ruling Puts U.S. Online Gambling Ban In Limbo
The U.S. ban on Internet gambling was dealt a blow this week, as the World Trade Organization ruled that certain aspects of the ban violated international trade agreements. The case was brought before...
View ArticleTheft of Personal Information on 310,000 Americans at LexisNexis
European data broker Reed Elsevier, operator of the LexisNexis system, today announced that 59 security breaches of its databases may have resulted in the theft of personal information on 310,000 U.S....
View ArticleCourt Tosses Out Broadcast Flag Regulation
In a major blow to the MPAA, a federal appeals court has thrown out FCC rules that required digital television equipment to enforce copy protection through the use of what is known as the "broadcast...
View ArticleOne Third of Software in Use Still Pirated
According to a new global software piracy study done by Business Software Alliance (BSA), more than one third of all software in use today is still pirated. Estimated software company revenue losses...
View ArticleFeds Raid Top BitTorrent Tracker
Federal agents raided the operators of Elite Torrents, a popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer tracker for pirated software, music, and movies. In addition to shutting down the functionality of the site, the...
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