President Obama's administration has presented legislation to protect online privacy that includes a consumer bill of rights and a standardized Do-Not-Track feature for browsers.
- By William Jackson
- 02/24/2012
Both Indiana and Ohio will be the first states to link its in-state academic research networks to the 100-gigabits/sec cross-country network being built by Internet2 and the Energy Department.
- By William Jackson
- 02/21/2012
According to Microsoft, Google circumnavigates Internet Explorer's P3P Privacy Protection feature to track cookies of users.
According to respondents to Arbor Networks' Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, DDoS attacks are targeting IPv6 networks for the first time since the Internet protocol started implementation last year.
Adobe on Wednesday released a security update that fixed seven Flash Player vulnerabilities, including a zero-day cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw found by Google researchers.
Cisco Systems wants the European Commission to review its approval of Microsoft's acquisition of Skype.
Microsoft's February Security Update included an antivirus and security software "fix" that told users that Google.com was infected with the Blackhole Exploit Kit.
Anonymous last week took credit for attacks on state servers in Alabama and Mexican government sites.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 02/13/2012
An industry-produced survey suggested that Web site attacks motivated by political considerations may be on the rise.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 02/10/2012
A U.S. program that aims to assure greater identity trust in online transactions has received some research and development funding.
- By William Jackson
- 02/03/2012
Fifteen companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Facebook, have come together to form DMARC.org.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 01/30/2012
Data Privacy Day starts on January 28, but the parties behind it might not be its best advocates, nor even take the concept seriously.
The global launch of IPv6 has been set by the Internet Society for June 6.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2012
After Facebook released the names of those responsible for a malware ring targeting the social network's users, the group's central command and control (C&C) server went offline.
In what the "hacktivism" group Anonymous is calling the largest operation in the group's history, it is targeting government and multimedia sites in response to today's arrests and shut down of the file-sharing site Megauploads.
Jerry Yang is cutting all ties with the company he helped put on the map almost 20 years ago.
Many Web sites will shut down Wednesday in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), currently under consideration by the U.S. Congress.
NEC Corp. broke an ultra-long haul Internet speed record when it successfully transmitted data at 1.15 terabits/sec over 6,213 miles.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 01/13/2012
Having trouble saving Internet videos to your computer? Brien walks you through a lesser-know Internet Explorer exploit that should get the job done.
For the first time in Microsoft's search business history, the company has claimed a higher U.S. market share than Yahoo, according to a market analysis by comScore.