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Would 'trusted identities' be trustworthy?
The Obama Administration has taken a stand against the unwieldy user name/password system of online identification and launched an initiative with the private sector to build an "identity ecosystem."
Could an Internet blockade happen here?
The Internet blockade set up by the Egyptian government last week to prevent its citizens from communicating online raised a question for Internet users everywhere: Could this happen to us? For CIOs,
Consumers getting only half of advertised broadband speed
In a report released this week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reported that users are getting an average of half of the "up to" broadband speeds advertised by ISPs. While nobody
DNSSEC is fully deployed on DNS root servers
The 13 name servers operating the root zone of the Internet's Domain Name Servers (DNS) are now digitally signed with DNSSEC, or the Domain Name Server Security Extensions protocol. This will help
German government steps in to clean malware
At the fourth German IT summit last week, the German government announced plans to help its citizens detect and eliminate malware from their computers. This will be done in conjunction with ISPs who
Botnet plunders 70GB of personal and financial data in 10 days
Researchers from the University of California managed to hack into the command-and-control network used by hackers to manage an 180,000 strong botnet. In the short 10 days that they had access to the
Tunnel borer mishap results in outage affecting 70,000 customers
In yet another data cable severing mishap, contractors working on an Olympic site in Stratford, United Kingdom, sent a large tunnel borer into a deep level British Telecom (BT) tunnel. The resulting
Akamai: Obama inauguration sets web traffic record
According to Akamai , a content delivery network (CDN) provider, the inauguration of Obama has set a record number of 7 million data streams, the majority of which are live streams. This compares
Who's responsible for spam and malware?
Traditionally, the debate over Internet security has involved the battle between the industry that seeks to protect companies and individuals from intruders, and the companies that make their profit
Is Comcast's bandwidth limiting action a sign of things to come?
If you are a subscriber of Comcast's cable broadband services, you might be interested to know that Comcast will impose a monthly limit of 250 gigabytes of bandwidth on residential users starting
