Monthly Archives: November 2014

More Than Half of Americans Know What Net Neutrality Is: Report

The “Web IQ” of American internet users varies widely, and less than half are aware that a company posting a privacy statement is not necessarily promising confidentiality. According to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, only 44 percent of those surveyed know what a privacy statement is, though over 80 percent know about Bill Gates and hashtags. Continue reading

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Netflix Accuses Yahoo CIO, its Former VP of IT Ops, of Fraud

Netflix has filed a civil lawsuit against Yahoo CIO Michael Kail and his company Unix Mercenary, accusing him of taking kickbacks from two IT contractors during the three years he worked as vice president of IT operations for the online video streaming and DVD rental company. Continue reading

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EU Regulators Want Right to Be Forgotten to Extend Beyond European Borders

Long-awaited guidelines for how search engine operators in the EU should handle the European Court of Justice May decision regarding the right to be forgotten were released this week. The resulting decision was released Tuesday by the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party. The committee interpreted the court ruling to… Continue reading

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Docker Solves Critical Vulnerabilities in Latest Release

The latest release of Docker patches two critical security vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to escalate their privileges and execute remote code on an affected system. Continue reading

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Unlimited Cloud Storage Nearly Drove Bitcasa to Bankruptcy

Bitcasa has unveiled more details about why it had to discontinue its unlimited cloud storage plan in an interview with Gigaom on Tuesday. According to Bitcasa CEO Brian Taptich, the company could simply not afford to keep unlimited-storage users as customers. Continue reading

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