"NBC is making more than 2,200 hours of live competition from Beijing available online, giving Olympic junkies more action than they could ever devour in a day."
"The idea is to bring the concept of an identity card, like a driver's license, to the online world. Rather than logging on to sites with user IDs and passwords, people would gain access to sites using a secure digital identity overseen by a third party. Such identity cards would also reduce the number of phishing incidents."
"According to the law passed in the 2007 Texas legislative session, the private investigator's license is required for repair technicians to analyze their customers' computer data. This analysis is common for business managers who wish to track their employees' computer usage or families who want to find out where their children or spouses have been online, said Matt Miller, executive director of the institute." http://preview.tinyurl.com/6enx2f
"Electromagnetic glitches occurred in almost 30 percent of the tests when microchip devices similar to those in many types of wireless medical equipment were placed within about one foot of the lifesaving machines. Nearly 20 percent of the cases involved hazardous malfunctions that would probably harm patients." http://preview.tinyurl.com/6ozc3t
"A new law in Congress would require every U.S. citizen to have electronic health records by 2014. It would also set up privacy rules for those records, requiring information keepers to notify patients of security breaches." http://preview.tinyurl.com/6a4s66
"The Attorney General of Kentucky has had his identity stolen less than a month after setting up a cyber-crime unit." http://preview.tinyurl.com/3zp5y8
"Congress's biggest telecom disability rights advocate has introduced new legislation that would, among other provisions, extend close captioning to some Internet video." http://preview.tinyurl.com/4m8oke
"Playing garbled acoustic messages backwards could take wireless broadband communication beneath the waves, boosting the speed of data transfers to submarines, undersea robots and data collection devices by up to three times."
"The Federal Communications Commission has published the details of an Order requiring telcos to assign people with hearing and speech disabilities something that everyone else takes for granted: a ten-digit telephone number. Until this decision, "there was no uniform, consistent way for voice telephone users to call Internet-based TRS [Telecommunications Relay Service] users"
"the 'critical' vulnerability, spotted in Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2 and earlier versions, is related to an unspecified JavaScript input validation issue. If exploited, the bug could permit remote code execution."
"Almost half the websites pushing malware are hosted by just 10 networks, according to a new report that adds new support to the growing argument that a relatively few number of actors are responsible for most of the net-based threats."