Security News 29 Sep 2009 SMS attacks against BlackBerry certificate flaw possible Research In Motion is warning that SMS attacks targeting BlackBerry users could take advantage of a certificate handling flaw, tricking users into visiting an attack website.

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Most of the recent talk about peer-to-peer file sharing has surrounded FCC efforts to prevent ISP’s from blocking the service, but the House Energy & Commerce Committee this week will mark up a bill that seeks to protect computer users from unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing. The Informed P2P User Act will be marked up Sept.

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Every time Governments legislate against or big business prosecutes against file sharing, internet users find a new way to circumvent and continue their activities.

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View FullText article SpringerLink Abstract The future of peer-to-peer file-sharing and related technologies is entwined, for better or worse, with copyright law.

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Abstract Hybrid peer-to-peer architectures use special nodes to provide directory services for regions of the network .

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Lily Allen has pulled the plug on a blog she created to support her campaign against illegal file-sharing because of the criticism she was getting for doing it.

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In a networked world, sensitive discussions threaten users’ privacy when stored on multiple systems.

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A registered sex offender from Humble is in trouble with the law again after FBI agents say he downloaded child pornography on his computer.

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If Microsoft’s freshly granted patent for a digital rights management system sounds like a 2003 idea coming to fruition in 2009, that’s because it is - the patent that was granted yesterday was filed six years ago.

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Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski today said he is starting the process for making network neutrality rules that would prevent broadband service providers from blocking or degrading content and applications beyond the use of reasonable network management techniques.

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The Federal Communications Commission has taken on the tricky legal task of asserting its authority over the Internet, telling an appeals court that, contrary to what Comcast says , the FCC did too have the legal power to sanction the ISP for BitTorrent throttling last year.

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SOFTWARE IMPERIALIST Microsoft has been awarded a patent for a distributed DRM system that works over peer-to-peer networks.

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Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Sep. 21–CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former administrative employee at Kanawha County’s Metro 911 center pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to receiving child pornography over the Internet.

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Citing concerns over the emerging “breaks and cracks” in the open architecture of the Internet, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission today unveiled a proposal to bolster the agency’s support of the core principle of Net neutrality.

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