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With an Oct. 6 adjournment date looming, U.S. Senate leaders are hammering out backroom compromise legislation to finalize a bill criminalizing making false or fraudulent statements to obtain phone records. The controversial practice, known as pretexting, has gained national attention in the wake of the HP boardroom scandal centering on HP’s methods used to obtain […]

Outside the Beltway, way out there in flyover land on the prairies of North Dakota, not all Republicans are lining up to support U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s call to ban Internet gambling. In fact, North Dakota State Rep. Jim Kasper says, “My fellow Republicans just don’t get it” when it comes to Internet […]

A spam scam promising dates with lonely, if not quite desperate, housewives is among the latest unsolicited bulk e-mail schemes halted today by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). According to the FTC, Cleverlink Trading’s lonely housewives spam violated almost every provision of the 2003 CAN SPAM Act and the operators agreed to forfeit $400,000 in […]

WASHINGTON — The United States is not prepared to effectively coordinate a public/private recovery from a major attack on the Internet, cyber security officials told Congress today. The primary problem, they explained to a sparsely attended House hearing, is leadership and clear lines of authority. “Right now, no one in government is really looking at […]

Another member of the Elite Torrents file-swapping outfit pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of criminal copyright infringement. Before federal agents raided the copyright theft ring in May of last year, the Elite Torrents used peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharers deploying BitTorrent technology to illegally distribute 2.1 million copyrighted works across 18,000 movie, music and software titles. […]

The European Commission (EC) is expanding its probe into possible Intel anti-competitive practices to include allegations of collusion between Europe’s largest electronics retailer and the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker. Following an investigation by German authorities, the EC said Monday the charges would be included in a wider, ongoing investigation of alleged Intel antitrust actions to […]

For Vernon Jackson, the road to Internet riches in Africa has ended with a trip to a U.S. federal penitentiary. Jackson, the chairman of the Louisville-based technology company iGate, was sentenced Friday to an 87-month prison term Friday for paying $400,000 in bribes to U.S. Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.). The purpose of the bribes was […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching a formal investigation into AT&T’s role in disclosing the personal telephone records of HP board members and selected journalists to HP private investigators. The FCC sent what the agency calls a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) to AT&T late last week seeking information about the company’s role in the […]

The scandal enveloping HP’s board is not a did they or didn’t they caper. HP admits it obtained the phone records of certain board members and nine journalists while investigating the source of boardroom leaks to the media. The only real question is was it legal to obtain those phone records? “We believe a crime […]

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America, the thing to do is ask, “Are we any safer today than we were on Sept. 11, 2001?” There are plenty who would argue we’ve improved our nation’s security, and just as plenty who say we’ve got a long way to go. However, […]

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly officially signed off Thursday on a two-year extension of the communications protocol licensing program portion of Microsoft’s landmark antitrust agreement with the government. As previously reported by internetnews.com, both Microsoft and the Department of Justice (DoJ) formally agreed to the extension on Aug. 30. Although the original agreement is set to expire […]

UPDATED: Another offshore gambling executive is in U.S. custody. Peter Dicks, CEO of SportingBet PLC, a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange, was arrested Wednesday night at New York’s JFK airport on an outstanding Louisiana gambling-related arrest warrant issued in May. “It was an active out-of-state warrant and we acted upon it,” Pasquali […]