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Entries Tagged as 'Internet'

DDoS Attacks: Size doesn’t matter

February 6th, 2012 · No Comments

People often think that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks-you know like the ones that knocked the Department of Justice, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and Universal Music recently–require hundreds of attackers generating gigabytes of traffic per second to pound a Website down into the ground. Ah, [...]

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Tags: Infrastructure · Internet · Network · Security · Server · Web Services

How Web savvy are Romney, Gingrich and Obama?

February 2nd, 2012 · No Comments

President Barack Obama recently held a Google+ video Hangout; Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich promised to have a permanent U.S. moon-base by 2020; and fellow Republican Mitt Romney, along with Gingrich and Obama, are against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA). So, as politicians go, these guys are all pretty tech-savvy [...]

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Tags: Desktop · Infrastructure · Internet · Mobile · Network · SmartPhone · Tablet · Web browser · Web Services

How to keep your face out of LinkedIn ads

January 30th, 2012 · No Comments

Google has unified its privacy policies, Facebook is rolling out its Timeline feature, and the FBI is looking for help to monitor all the social networks. All that has people feeling a little twitchy about the personal information they’ve placed online. And, now some people have noticed that LinkedIn, the business and jobs social network, [...]

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Tags: Business · Internet · Network · Security · Social Networking

For the good of the nation, broadband for all

January 30th, 2012 · No Comments

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski recently announced a plan that would expand the Universal Service Fund’s Lifeline program to include broadband Internet service. The concept of universal service dates to the Communications Act of 1934 and was expanded by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Today, the Lifeline program provides land-line telephone service to [...]

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Tags: Internet · Network

Closing Megaupload unlikely to even slow piracy down

January 24th, 2012 · No Comments

The U.S. Department of Justice working in conjunction with New Zealand’s law enforcement agencies has taken down the popular file-storage and sharing site Megaupload. So, since Megaupload has been shut down, Internet piracy has gone down significantly, right? Right? Well, probably not, NPD market researcher Russ Crupnick said, “Only about 3 percent of the U.S. [...]

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Tags: Business · Internet · Legal · Network · Network Services · Peer to Peer · Web Services