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    Tough UK Communications Bill Proposed

    Last week the UK Home Secretary proposed a Communications Data Bill that would require web hosting providers and ISPs to retain subscriber data for periods up to twelve months. The types of data to be retained include general traffic data, such as ro... 
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  • Problems Continue for Megaupload Customers

    The Megaupload situation is still continuing to cause problems for its customers. In January, the US government had shutdown the Megaupload file-sharing website and seized over 18 domains and 1100 servers based on charges of online privacy. Caught in... 
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    LinkedIn Passwords Unhashed

    LinkedIn, the social networking site for business and other professionals, was compromised within the last month when over 6.5 million of its passwords were captured by hackers. About 60 per cent of that total were decoded from their hashed state and... 
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    Arrest of Web Hackers

    The mists that enshroud the world of Web hacking from public view parted slightly last month when at least one arrest was made concerning a recent hacking breach of the host account of the Web Hosting Management Complete Solution (WHCMS) Web site. My... 
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  • The Monitoring of Cookies in the UK

    The potential for stricter penalties just went into effect over this past weekend for violators of the year-old UK law that requires user consent for the use of cookies on a Web site. Though the law in the UK has been in effect since May 25, 2011, th... 
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    App Stores Now Being Used for Web Hosting Products

    It used to be the only way Web hosting providers could supply customers with the software they needed was to mail a disk or perhaps set up a download site. But now, the distribution model exemplified by the app store could be the new way for Web host... 
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    NASA Dropping Out of OpenStack Partnership

    NASA, the US space exploration agency, is moving its commitment for open source software and the Internet cloud from being a developer to becoming a consumer.... 
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    Combating Online Sales of Counterfeit Luxury Products

    A new tactic is being used by fashion companies trying to stop the online sale of counterfeit versions of their trademark luxury products. Up until about ten years, ago, companies like Chanel and Louis Vuitton would sue counterfeiters for trademark i... 
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    Recent PHP Patching Symptomatic of Larger Problems

    A recent double release of patches by the PHP Group to remedy a vulnerability in Web servers is symptomatic of a problem that those who are responsible for Web servers know all too well. When a vulnerability is addressed in one set of patches, what d... 
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  • Shopping Carts for Cyber-Crime

    Last month, government takedowns of criminal websites revealed a disturbing trend: the use of e-commerce to sell illegal data. We've all used online shopping carts and clicked the checkout button on many commercial sites to buy books, music, computer... 
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