Kenneth Corbin

Is Twitter all grown up? The company launched a sleek new redesign of its home page on Tuesday, which it says in part is meant to convey to the world that it’s no longer just about status updates. No, Twitter’s redesigned home page offers a more interactive representation of things like top-trending topics, aiming to […]

Could it be that an electronic privacy statute that became law didn’t envision the cloud-computing era and a burgeoning crop of location-based services? Well, of course it couldn’t. But despite the longstanding efforts of many groups to push for an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the 1986 law is still on the books. […]

The Federal Aviation Administration is bringing in IBM to help design a new network security system for better protecting the agency’s infrastructure against cyber threats. It’s a move that comes almost a year after the FAA announced that it had suffered a data breach in which hackers penetrated its servers and made off with sensitive […]

A bipartisan group of rank-and-file members of Congress has called on the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation into Google Buzz, the search giant’s new social networking tool. In a letter to FTC Chairman John Leibowitz, the lawmakers reiterated the privacy concerns that have been widely expressed about the inadvertent sharing of private information […]

Is Facebook courting controversy again? It seems like whenever the social networking leader tinkers with its privacy policy, the torches are lit and the pitchforks hoisted. In its latest update, Facebook is asking for input from its users after tweaking its privacy guidelines to clear the way for new features and services, including some that […]

The Department of Justice on Monday said that it will not sue to block Cisco’s acquisition of videoconferencing provider Tandberg, saying that the merger review had resolved the significant anticompetitive concerns. Tandberg, a Norwegian firm, had been a competitor to Cisco in the area of telepresence, an emerging field where high-resolution video facilitates virtual meetings. […]

The Senate Commerce Committee this week reported sweeping legislation aimed at enhancing the public-private coordination to defend the nation’s communications systems and other critical infrastructure against cyber attacks. The Cybersecurity Act, co-sponsored by John Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), heads to the full Senate for consideration after four revisions to the original bill introduced […]

For more than a year, News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch has been talking loudly and frequently about the unsustainability of free, ad-supported news production in the age of Google. Now, he’s making good on some of that bluster. Beginning in June, the U.K. newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times will begin charging for access […]

The FCC had to defend its national broadband plan on Capitol Hill, and things didn’t go quite as smoothly as the FCC would have liked. Congressmen had some pointed questions regarding competition and regulation of the Internet. Enterprise Networking Planet has more details. The Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan came under its first congressional […]

For the past two-and-a-half month, Google has dominated the conversation around Internet restrictions in China. But today, domain registrar Go Daddy took center stage. The company’s general counsel detailed to lawmakers a series of escalating attacks and onerous data-collection requirements from the Chinese government that ultimately convinced Go Daddy to stop issuing new .cn domains. […]

A growing number and variety of cyber threats means the demand for those with computer security expertise is very high. eSecurityPlanet reports on what the director of global cyber security management at the Department of Homeland Security said in a speech detailing the urgency of the matter. WASHINGTON — As discussions about the federal approach […]

Have cyber gangs become the modern-day Mafia? With billions of dollars in play, hackers and other cyber crooks are turning into career criminals, a transformation marked by an increasing professionalization and specialization among their ranks, according to a senior official at the FBI. At the FOSE government IT show, Deputy Assistant FBI Director Steven Chabinsky […]