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House panel kills provision in controversial copyright bill

2008-03-06 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Cooler heads prevailed in the House of Representatives as lawmakers expunged controversial portions of a copyright-enforcement bill that could have led to fines as high as $1.5 million for a "pirated" 10-song mix CD
 
Tags: 10-song mix cd, house, cooler heads, controversial portions, bill, led, representatives, million, lawmakers
 
 
 
 
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EBay officially kills controversial PayPal-only plan in Australia

2008-07-10 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Although eBay has withdrawn its controversial PayPal-only plan in Australia, it still will require sellers to offer the payment service as an option for buyers
 
Tags: controversial paypal-only plan, ebay, australia, require sellers, payment service, withdrawn, offer, buyers, option
 
 
 
 
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Air Force Suspends Controversial Cyber Command

2008-08-13 14:47:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
The Air Force is about to suspend its controversial effort to reorganize its forces to "dominate" cyberspace. The provisional, 8,000-man Cyber Command has been ordered to stop all activities, just weeks before it was supposed to be declared operational
 
Tags: air force, 000-man cyber command, controversial effort, cyberspace, operational, stop, activities, provisional, suspend
 
 
 
 
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Army Anthropologist's Controversial Culture Clash

2008-09-23 12:00:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
Seven years ago, Montgomery McFate was an unemployed, directionless academic. Today, she helps lead the Army's controversial program to embed social scientists into combat units. And the guilt is killing her
 
Tags: embed social scientists, directionless academic, controversial program, army, combat units, helps lead, guilt, ago, montgomery
 
 
 
 
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The Other Side of Life

2008-03-21 16:06:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...controversial. Since joining SQL, Ive learned a lot about SQL Server too, and what it means to ship a product - but thats outside the scope of this blog. So instead, Ill try to describe three real experiences that illustrate things that shouldnt be controversial either, but arent usually covered under the rubric of security. They are crucial...
 
Tags: team, product team, engineers, security engineers, security, balance security, security professional, test managers, test
 
 
 
 
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Bill Gates retires, Symbian goes open source

2008-06-27 00:00:00 by HASH0x8afbd20 in Network World on Security
 
...controversial spy bill. While on the topic of controversial plans, an ISP (Internet service provider) suspended a program that would have served up ads based on a user's Internet history after the move sparked privacy concerns. Yahoo, a perennial name in this space, defended its Google ad deal on Wednesday and the next day launched yet...
 
Tags: bill, controversial spy bill, internet service provider, controversial plans, sentimental news, vista adoption, us1 billion, internet history, ads based
 
 
 
 
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Index on Censorship: Shifting Borders

2007-12-18 11:23:50 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...controversial information, where they do business, what markets do they compete in and what corporate partnerships are involved. The direction these take will have a significant impact on the scale of Internet censorship The rest of the journal is well worth reading, with authors including Xeni Jardin , David Weinberger and Jimmy Wales . I...
 
Tags: censorship, internet censorship, internet, article, nart villeneuves article, journal index, journal, ross anderson, national boundaries
 
 
 
 
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Relay attacks on card payment: vulnerabilities and defences

2008-01-09 00:01:52 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...controversial electronics projects, including the TV-B-Gone and her own cellphone jammer DNS Rebinding And More Packet Tricks Dan Kaminsky describes the DNS Rebinding attack and demonstrates tunneling arbitrary TCP streams over a browser Mifare Karsten Nohl and Henryk Plötz describe how they reverse-engineered the Mifare encryption...
 
Tags: dns, security, cellphone jammer dns, security michael steil, talks, henryk pltz describe, chaos communication congress, annie machon describes, arbitrary tcp streams
 
 
 
 
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After furor, Network Solutions stands by name policy

2008-01-10 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Network Solutions is standing by its controversial policy of automatically registering some domain names that are the subject of searches on the company's Web site
 
Tags: network solutions, controversial policy, domain names, web site, subject, company