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Wired: Threat LevelKevin Poulsen and Ryan Singel's daily briefing on security, freedom and privacy in the wired and unwired world.
Broadcasters are claiming in federal lawsuits Thursday that Dish Network's DVR service, which allows the automatic skipping of commercials, breaches copyright law and retransmission agreements. The suits by Fox, CBS and NBC are the broadcasters' latest legal salvos against technological innovations, as those advances bring into question whether broadcasters' longstanding business model can survive the digital age.
Each month, Google removes more than 1 million links to infringing content such as movies, video games, music and software -- with about half of those requests last month coming from Microsoft. The search and advertising giant revealed the data Thursday as it released sortable analytics on the massive number of copyright takedown requests it receives -- adding to its already existing data on the number of times governments ask for users' personal data.
When news stories quoted Hillary Clinton claiming the State Department hacked al-Qaida web sites, we didn’t know whether to be proud of the feds' leet skills or appalled at the administration's hypocrisy regarding hacking.
Two digital rights groups urged a federal court Wednesday not to shut down an upstart technology company that streams over-the-air broadcast to New Yorkers. Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a friend-of-the-court brief, said the courts should not shutter Aereo, as broadcasters are asking, simply because there is no federal licensing scheme yet for internet streaming of over-the-air broadcasts (one exists for cable companies).
A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that 150 pounds of marijuana collected from a suspect's car is not admissible in court because investigators illegally used a GPS tracker without a warrant to uncover the evidence.
Armenia handed down its first computer crime sentence on Tuesday with a four-year punishment for the mastermind behind the Bredolab botnet.
After months of anticipation, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will finally get a ruling next week on his appeal of an extradition order to Sweden, where he faces an investigation into allegations of rape.
Facebook is agreeing in "principle" to settle allegations that its "Sponsored Stories" advertising platform breached its users' privacy. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. The suit, filed in April 2011, claimed that the social-networking site did not adequately provide a way to opt out of the advertising program that began in January 2011.
NSA Teams Up With Colleges to Train Students for Secret Cyber-Ops JobsTue, 22 May 2012 20:33:17 +0000
The National Security Agency is teaming up with universities to train students in cyber operations for intelligence, military and law enforcement work that will remain secret to all but a select group of students and faculty who pass clearance requirements.
Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and "baseless political attacks"? Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites, such as blogs and newspapers, to "remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post."
