Signalling a sea change in the debate over Internet privacy, the government’s top consumer protection agency on Wednesday advocated a plan that would let consumers choose whether they want their Internet browsing and buying habits monitored — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Less than three per cent of IPv4 address space is still to be allocated, after two huge chunks were given to American and European ISPs.
ARIN and RIPE, which administer IP addresses on either side of the Atlantic, each received two /8 address blocks in November. A fifth block went to their African equivalent.
The moves leave only seven /8 blocks – 2.7 per cent of the total of 256 – unallocated by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks is no longer mirroring its trove of confidential US diplomatic cables on US-based servers run by Amazon.com, and according to US Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Amazon agreed to remove the mirrors after complaints from his office — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone Hutchison Australia’s 3G network continues to struggle under the weight of its customers despite it having claimed that a software fix would resolve issues at the end of last month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The South Australian Department of Health has bought some 200 Apple iPads and plans to buy more for its 3300 staff after an internal review lauded the security, functionality and return on investment of the devices — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the operator of Torrent-finder.com have separately vowed to fight domain-name seizures by two US agencies in recent days — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The central IT office of Australia’s Federal Government has requested that agencies consider the use of alternative file formats to Adobe’s PDF.
The advice follows a study which found that while accessibility of the Portable Document Format (PDF) has improved over time and remains a popular format for many organisations, it was less accessible to visually-impaired users — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A cryptographic system used by Canon to ensure that digital images haven’t been altered is flawed and can’t be fixed, according to a Russian security company that specializes in encryption.
Mid- to high-end Canon digital cameras have a feature called Original Decision Data
(ODD), which is a digital signature that can be verified to see if a photo has been retouched or if data such as timestamps or GPS coordinates have been changed. The Associated Press news wire uses the system, which can also be used to verify photos used as evidence.
But the digital signature can be forged due to design flaws in Canon’s system, according to Dmitry Sklyarov, an IT security analyst with Elcomsoft, which specializes in password recover systems. Sklyarov was due to give a presentation on the flaws at the Confidence IT security event in Prague on Tuesday afternoon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The independent senator Nick Xenophon has turned his sights towards a new bill crucial to the government’s national broadband network, saying he will block it if changes are not made — via The Sydney Morning Herald
A team of researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a biological system, in fact a baterial cell system, as an alternative solution for data en/decryption and storage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Michael Calce, the reformed hacker from Montreal who will forever be known as Mafiaboy, told a group of IT professionals Tuesday that he has serious concerns about the inherent vulnerabilities in the latest evolution of information technology: cloud computing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 70 sites alleged to be selling counterfeit goods or offering pirated content have been shut down by the US government — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks has reported that its Web site is currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack. The whistleblower Web site posted an update via Twitter early Sunday afternoon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The National Australia Bank (NAB) said that it has fixed a computer problem that left millions of customers short of cash and has scotched reports the problem was due to human error — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A peak Australian technology body has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to not force internet service providers (ISPs) to disconnect the infected computers of its customers as part of its response to a Senate committee report into online security threats — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered clandestine surveillance of United Nations leadership, including obtaining security measures, passwords, personal encryption keys, and types of VPN versions used
as well as biometric information, according to a secret directive made public today by WikiLeaks.org — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Swedish man has broadcast music from his stomach for several hours via a mini audio system, but says he is disappointed by the sound quality — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has released extracts from secret messages sent by US embassies which give an insight into current global concerns — via redwolf.newsvine.com
News publishers and readers both benefit when journalists get proper credit for their work. That can be difficult, with news spreading so quickly and many websites syndicating articles to others. That’s why we’re experimenting with two new metatags for Google News: syndication-source and original-source. Each of these metatags addresses a different scenario, but for both the aim is to allow publishers to take credit for their work and give credit to other journalists — via benno.newsvine.com
The United States has rejected talks with WikiLeaks over its planned release of confidential US documents, saying the whistleblower website is holding them in violation of US law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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