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Day Three of the W32/SoBig.F virus, which is hitting home users hardest. Counterpane Internet Security has identified 1,500 malicious file attachments associated with the virus, and counting. For more information, see the following links: McAfee Security Virus Profile Symantec Security Response, W32.Sobig.F@mm The virus is apparently set to self destruct after two weeks, making that …
3rd Circuit OKs Posting Addresses of Convicts Under Megan’s Law: “The decision in A.A. v. State of New Jersey overturns a lower court’s injunction that limited the state to posting only the offenders’ county of residence on the Internet registry.” See also my previous posting on two Supreme Court rulings from earlier this year upholding …
Report to Congress, Childrens Internet Protection Act, Pub. L. 106-554, Study of Technology Protection Measures in Section 1703, August 15, 2003, Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration. From the report’s Conclusion: “In summary, existing technology protection measures have met many of the needs of educational institutions. While the education community has had success …
Amazon wins tussle over lookalike site: “A Web site owner arguing that online retailer Amazon.com Inc. cannot lay exclusive claim to the name of the world’s second longest river to sell goods on the Internet learned today that … well, yes it can. Arbitrators for the United Nations copyright agency WIPO told the Arizona man …
Scalable Exploitation of, and Responses to Information Leakage Through Hidden Data in Published Documents, by Simon Byers, AT&T’s Research Labs. Mr. Beyer’s research focused on the tools and techniques used to “search for hidden data in Word documents.” The use of hidden text is routine in the process of creating documents using Word, so this …
Aggregators Attack Info Overload : “Maniacally wired netizens who read a hundred blogs a day and just as many news sources are turning to a new breed of software, called newsreaders or aggregators, to help them manage information overload.” See also several of my previous postings on RSS and aggregators here and here and Dan …
ISPs Among First to Detect, React to Outage: “Throughout the United States, ISPs and network operators were among the first to detect an infrastructure problem thanks to sophisticated monitoring systems. In addition to a New York drop, carriers saw traffic elsewhere surge as users logged onto news sites.
A User’s Guide to the Stored Communications Act – And a Legislator’s Guide to Amending It, by Orin S. Kerr, George Washington University Law School: Abstract: Americans care deeply about their Internet privacy. But if they want to know how federal law protects the privacy of their stored Internet communications, they’ll quickly learn that it’s …
Internet Survives Power Failure: The Internet was for the most part performing normally, despite the power failure, according to Internet performance tracker Keynote Systems. Crash of System Predicted – North American Electric Reliability Council issued a warning to Congress two years ago. See the press release, NERC General Counsel Testifies on Electric Grid Reliabity. The …
From Internetnews.com: “A massive power outage has unexpectedly darkened New York and most of New York state as well as other Northeast American cities including Detroit and Cleveland, as well as Toronto and Ottawa in Canada.” Energy/utility related links on blackouts is available from the IRE Resource Center (thanks to Carolyn Edds, Research Director and …
What Home Pages Tell (And Don’t Tell) About A Candidate. This article provides screen shots and links to 9 candidate sites, and evaluates them based on the following categories: Ease of contributing money, Excitement, Clarity of purpose, Clarity of message, Amount of useful information, and Professionalism.
From the Justice Served website, this announcement identifies the top ten court websites chosen from among 900 considered. Two court sites in Washington, D.C. were recognized: the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia and the US District Court for the District of Columbia. [Rory Perry’s Weblog]
