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Follow up to Major International Hacker Pleads Guilty For Massive Attack On U.S. Retail And Banking Networks, this DOJ news release: “The leader of the largest hacking and identity theft ring ever prosecuted by the U.S. government has been sentenced to 20 years and one day in prison for his role in a series of …
News release: “Social Sentry provides corporations the ability to monitor the social networking communications of their employees. Delivered as an easy to deploy SaaS offering, Social Sentry enables businesses to monitor employee activity on all major social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. It provides granular and real-time tracking to eliminate significant corporate risks related …
Chronic Disease and the Internet, March 24, 2010: “U.S. adults living with chronic disease are significantly less likely than healthy adults to have access to the internet (62% vs. 81%). The internet access gap creates an online health information gap. However, lack of internet access, not lack of interest in the topic, is the primary …
Information Security: Concerted Response Needed to Resolve Persistent Weaknesses, GAO-10-536T, March 24, 2010: “Without proper safeguards, federal computer systems are vulnerable to intrusions by individuals who have malicious intentions and can obtain sensitive information. The need for a vigilant approach to information security has been demonstrated by the pervasive and sustained cyber attacks against the …
Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report Highlighting global security threats and trends: “The Cisco® Annual Security Report provides an overview of the combined security intelligence of the entire Cisco organization. The report encompasses threat information and trends collected between January and December 2009. It also provides a snapshot of the state of security for that period, …
Television Internet and Mobile Usage in the U.S. Three Screen Report, Volume 7 4th Quarter 2009 – Highights: “Consumers are adding video platforms to their weekly schedule, rather than replacing them. Each week the typical American consumes almost 35 hrs of TV, 2 hrs of timeshifted TV, 4 hrs of internet, 22 minutes of …
UK TimesOnline: “Hitwise, the internet industry tracker, announced that Facebook had dethroned Google as the worlds most popular website. For the week ending March 13, the social networking site set up by wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg got more traffic than Google in America. It was a milestone likely to be revisited as Facebook and Google limber …
Teens and the Internet: The Future of Digital Diversity, Kristen Purcell, Ph.D. Associate Director, Pew Internet Project, Fred Forward Conference, March 23, 2010.
News release: “Today, the Federal Communications Commission delivered to Congress a National Broadband Plan setting an ambitious agenda for connecting all corners of the nation while transforming the economy and society with the communications network of the future — robust, affordable Internet…Titled Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan, the Plan found that while broadband access …
Washington Post Political Blog: “On Wednesday [March 17, 2010], C-SPAN will launch a searchable video library that includes all of its programming dating to 1987. Which means that, if you were so inclined, you could watch every one of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s floor speeches or relive Barack Obama’s speech at the 2007 Iowa …
Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism: The State of the News Media 2010 is the seventh edition of our annual report on the health and status of American journalism. Our goals are to take stock of the revolution occurring in how Americans get information and provide a resource for citizens, journalists and researchers to make …
News release: “Titled Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan, the Plan found that while broadband access and use have increased over the past decade, the nation must do much more to connect all individuals and the economy to broadbands transformative benefits. Nearly 100 million Americans lack broadband at home today, and 14 million Americans do …
