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British UFO enthusiast Gary McKinnon, who hacked into U.S. military computers in 2001 and 2002, lost his extradition appeal Tuesday in London's High Court. McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 U.S. military and NASA computers in the hopes of finding secret data on UFOs. He was charged in the U.S.
Cybersquatters, typosquatters and domain tasters were targeted by Microsoft Wednesday in a series of lawsuits filed in California, Washington and the United Kingdom. "Domain name abuse is a growing global challenge, and so Microsoft is expanding its efforts in this area for two reasons," explained M...
For more than a year, the issue of network neutrality has taken up a tremendous amount of time and attention in both Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley. In fact, it may be the single most engrossing subject currently tying together policy interests in these two distinct parts of the country. Unfor...
Connecticut lawmakers are pushing a bill that would require social networking sites to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors who want to post profiles. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal urged adoption of the legislation Wednesday, a day after a Connecticut man was sentenced to ...
The Patent and Trademark Office has launched a pilot project designed to facilitate the patent approval process. While the efficiency benefit of this is obvious -- the PTO's examiners are overburdened and the process can take many years -- critics are concerned that the system could lead to manipula...
A pair of hackers arrested last year for trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com have struck a deal that will spare them jail time. The two pleaded no contest in a Los Angeles court to the lesser charge of illegal computer access. Prosecutors agreed to drop extortion charges that could have resul...
Online predators will again be the target of legislation filed in Congress this year. Sen. Ted Stevens filed a measure last month aimed at protecting children from pornographers, predators and list brokers. Meanwhile, in the House last week, Mark Kirk submitted a bill entitled the "Deleting Online P...
In a stark reminder of the perils some face when using the Internet to express themselves, an Egyptian blogger has been sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of insulting Islam and the country's president in his writings. An Egyptian court on Thursday found that 22-year old Abdel K...
A Texas judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who allegedly was assaulted by a man she met through the social networking Web site MySpace. Part of the case was dismissed with prejudice, a decision that will likely be appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court, according to...
Last November, the Librarian of Congress adopted half a dozen exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, among them one that might give cell phone phone users greater freedom to move between carriers with their mobile devices. That exemption allows users to legally unlock their cell phones,...
After this week's arrest of a California man accused of selling pirated copies of Microsoft and Adobe Systems software, police said the suspect had brazenly offered the disks on eBay and on personal Web sites. This latest case highlights an ongoing trend that software makers are battling. "It may t...
News Corp.'s popular social networking site MySpace.com will soon offer parents a glimpse of what their teenagers are doing online. The site, which is one of a group of social networking sites used regularly by more than half of American teens, has recently come under fire for inadequate security co...
Network neutrality -- an issue that created a firestorm of controversy on Capitol Hill last year -- will be on the congressional agenda again in 2007 thanks to Senators Olympia Snowe and Byron Dorgan. Those legislators filed this week what they're calling "The Internet Freedom Preservation Act," whi...
An application that Microsoft filed last year with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could be interpreted to give the software giant broad rights to RSS, or really simple syndication, technology. The possibility that Microsoft might wind up charging license fees for any RSS-type application has c...
Sony BMG on Tuesday settled lawsuits with consumers in Texas and California whose computers were infected with spyware hidden on CDs. The attorneys general of both states filed lawsuits last year charging the music giant with unfair business practices and violations of anti-spyware statutes. Each st...
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