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U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft last week said that a a six-month investigation of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks resulted in the identification of “thousands” of suspect computers used to access child pornography and 350 actual searches. The multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional P2P initiative charged more than 65 individuals with child pornography distribution. Federal, state and local law enforcement […]

A new bill in Congress would require clear and conspicuous notice by companies attempting to load software to a computer. But the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the technology industry and even some consumer groups believe the legislation would create more problems than it solves. “If we cast too big a net, well actually do harm […]

AOL has blocked more than one billion virus-infected emails since launching a screening program in April 2003, the company said. The company screens both incoming and outgoing mail for free and offers additional fee-based services through a deal with Network Associates Technology Inc. During the peak of the Sobig.F outbreak in August 2003, virus blocking […]

German authorities last week released on bail the suspected author of the Phatbot Trojan. Phatbot is a variant of Agobot, a big family of IRC bots, which can be used to steal personal information or seize control of infected machines. German authorities arrested the 21-year-old Phatbot coder around the same time the author of the […]

Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, the chip arm of Qualcomm Corp., has released a series of RF chips developed using a CMOS process. The companys three new baseband processors combine multimedia capabilities with support for GSM, GPRS, and wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) on chip. All three of the processors are equipped with a multimedia processing block that can […]

When did Red Hat become the bad guy? I mean, weve all criticized one company or another in the Linux community. It is the nature of an open society that people will speak their minds when they are opposed or in agreement with something. Ive done it, youve done it, and it will continue to […]

Project Overview An employee at your 12,000-person accounting firm makes a vacation request. Do you hear your bottom line sinking? Youd better, especially considering that you spend an average of $80 to process a single human-resources (HR) transaction and $1,500 a year to administer HR for each employee. And those costs are just maintenance; they […]

IBM Workplace, a new application management model launched this week, is bound to spell changes ahead for Linux developers, administrators, and desktop users. Just what kind of impact should the Linux community expect? Not all that surprisingly, IBM officials claim that the effects on Linux are will be largely positive. For their part, though, industry […]

Late July—Microsofts most recent delivery target for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)—is right around the corner. But that isnt stopping Microsoft from continuing to tweak the code. Typically, Microsoft makes few or no feature changes to a product once it enters the near-final Release Candidate (RC) stage. XP SP2 hit the RC1 beta milestone […]

The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill on Wednesday that would prohibit taking covert pictures in locker rooms, bedrooms and other places where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Violators would face fines and up to a year in prison under the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act, which passed the committee by voice vote. Read […]

With New York and California both considering proposals to crack down on spyware, the federal government is facing pressure to pass its own law. “If the states are busy writing laws and particularly if theyre writing inconsistent laws or laws that strongly interfere with certain markets, that certainly would strengthen the case for federal legislation,” […]