Kenneth Corbin

The Obama administration on Wednesday announced 94 new stimulus awards for broadband projects, totaling $1.8 billion in new federal grants and loans. “Today’s investment in broadband technology will create jobs across the country and expand opportunities for millions of Americans and American companies,” Vice President Joe Biden said in a statement. “In addition to bringing […]

Internet service providers continue to overstate the performance of broadband service to consumers, according to a new FCC report. As CIOUpdate reports, the findings not only mean consumers are largely getting inferior service but provide another good reason for more oversight by federal regulators, particularly the FCC. The commission noted that the speed gap is […]

Immigration and the perception of runaway federal spending are hot-button political issues as the nation heads into the mid-term elections. With a new border security bill, President Obama has touched on both. The newly enacted border security bill, signed into law on Friday, enjoyed a remarkably swift journey through Congress. In large measure, its success […]

When it comes to net neutrality, few people, companies or government agencies are lukewarm in their feelings about how Internet traffic should be regulated. As Enterprise Networking Planet reports, a quartet of Democrats led by Ed Markey of Massachusetts wrote a scathing letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, urging him to move forward and enact […]

Google’s joint proposal with Verizon had many net neutrality advocates hopping mad, seeing a clear betrayal of its pledges to fight for an Internet free of discriminatory traffic. Now that Google seems to be in cahoots with Verizon — a lead voice in the cable and telecom industry’s argument against net neutrality legislation and FCC […]

How ready is the United States for a massive, coordinated cyberattack? This week at the USENIX conference in Washington, Scott Borg, director of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, offered a chilling description of what might happen if the country isn’t fully prepared for such an eventuality. The Internet has forever changed the way that warfare […]

At the Federal Communications Commission, officials like to talk about broadband as the great infrastructure challenge of our time. To some, that means that the government needs to implement something like an industrial policy to promote deployment and adoption, reminiscent of past efforts like rural electrification. It would appear that a majority of Americans do […]

If the browser is becoming more like an operating system everyday, perhaps it’s time to rethink some of the fundamentals, like security and privacy. At Mozilla, the security team is hard at work reevaluating the design and usability of its Firefox browser, which is due out in version 4.0 later his year. At a conference […]

Securing the enterprise against internal and external threats is no easy task, and it’s a job made far more difficult thanks to human error. To Roger Johnston, a vulnerability assessment expert at the U.S. government’s Argonne National Laboratory, that error is rooted in an unimaginative, compliance-driven outlook on security, and a failure to put common […]

It’s baaaack. The debate over net neutrality has been reignited with the joint proposal by Google and Verizon that’s designed to lock in some aspects of net neutrality, but also give mobile and cable providers more leeway in terms of charging for priority access to certain types of websites. As Enterprise Networking Planet reports, the […]

Though coming from opposite sides of the fence on the issue, Google and Verizon on Monday issued a joint recommendation to legislators that would give the government some authority over Internet traffic but significantly limit some of the regulatory limitations that some broadband providers have been griping about since the net neutrality issue first came […]

Efforts underway at the highest levels of government to address the surging number of data breaches have yielded another stab at a data breach bill. This time, it’s originating from two Senate Democrats. If their bill gets the go-ahead, it could enact baseline requirements on enterprises to tighten up their security measures, while also laying […]