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Verizon Wireless was one of the big winners in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) 700MHz spectrum auction with the carrier winning a large chunk of nationwide spectrum. read more »
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National security now wholly funded by shoppingThe government, the British Airports Authority and the Information Commissioner's Office are arguing over fingerprinting at Heathrow's new Terminal 5, which is due to open on Thursday. T5 is to use a 'count them all in, count them all out' biometric system to log entry and exit to the departure lounge, but the ICO thinks the move may breach the Data Protection Act, and has demanded an explanation from BAA.… read more »
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http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=101473By Robert McMillanIDG News Service13 May 2008An anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean residents on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy problems in the country.The data was posted early Saturday morning on Fayerwayer.com, a popular Chilean technology blog.The hacker, who calls himself "Anonymous Coward," posted three compressed files of data that included names, addresses, telephone numbers and taxpayer read more »
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Malware has risen by a staggering 278 percent in the first half of 2008, thanks in part to the large number of Web sites comprised last month, so says a new study by ScanSafe. And it warns that things are only going to get worse, especially after Dan Kaminsky goes public with details about his 20-year-old DNS vulnerability. read more »
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It's easy. Those tubes are bustedMore evidence that the intertubes are fundamentally broken has been served up by Wired.com in an article laying out a technique to surreptitiously hijack huge chunks of the internet and monitor or even modify unencrypted traffic before it reaches its intended destination.… read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:44:24 -0500 (CDT)http://www.wtop.com/?nid=598&sid=1488750By Scott McCabe and Bill MyersExaminer Staff WritersOctober 1, 2008After Victor Papagno Jr. was arrested on a domestic violence charge in August 2007, his wife, Andrea, told his bosses at the Naval Research Laboratory that she wanted his work stuff out of the house, federal sources said.Navy officials didn't know what she was talking about.When they showed up at the Papagno's Ca read more »
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