FBI, grand jury now probing high school's webcam spyingFrom Ars Technica
By Jacqui Cheng | Last updated February 22, 2010 11:57 AM
The furor over the Harriton High School webcam spying caper continues to grow. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now investigating whether the school broke any federal wiretap laws when it remotely spied on a student at home, an anonymous official told the Associated Press. A federal grand jury has also subpoenaed the school for records related to the so-called "security" measures implemented on the laptops that allowed officials to activate the webcams to see people using them, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Thousands Of Organizations Worldwide Hit By Widespread Malware AttackFrom Dark Reading
Botnet bearing the Zeus Trojan infected 75,000 systems worldwide in 2,500 enterprises, government agencies
Yet another sign that the Zeus Trojan isn't just for stealing consumer online banking credentials anymore: Some 2,500 enterprises and government agencies worldwide have been infiltrated by a botnet spreading the pervasive piece of malware, a security firm revealed today.
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Can IE compete on a level playing field?From C/net news
Mozilla may have problems with its Firefox browser, but they pale in comparison to the specter now haunting Microsoft's Internet Explorer:
A level playing field.
For years, Microsoft has been sheltered from the brunt of browser competition by bundling IE with Windows. As Mozilla executive Mitchell Baker once told me:
[M]ost people think of "the Internet" as the blue "E" (IE's icon). It's always there on the desktop. The muscle memory of the blue E has been a giant problem for us and for competition.
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Mobile operators join in the battle for home hubsFrom The Inquirer:
COMPETITION BETWEEN OPERATORS could prevent future 3.5g and 4g networks from achieving optimal performance.
HSPA+ and emerging LTE 4G cellular links will quickly hit the limits in terms of the data they can carry per megahertz of bandwidth, and with little available spectrum the only way to increase capacity and real world speeds is to reduce the size of cells.
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FCC's 100 Megabits to the Home: What It Means To YouFromآ PCWorld
There's little debate that the United States lags behind other industrialized nations in high-speed Internet use. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), more than 100 million Americans don't have broadband at home because they either can't get it, can't afford it, or aren't aware of its benefits. Some 65 percent of U.S. households have broadband, a far lower adoption rate than in other technologically advanced countries such as Singapore (88 percent) or South Korea (95 percent).
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Amazon spreads Kindleware to BlackBerriesFrom The Register:
Amazon has released Kindleware for BlackBerry handhelds - though it's only available to US users. At least for the moment.
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Parents: school used webcam to spy on our kid at homeFrom ARS Technica...]
School-issued laptops are becoming more and more common these days, but thanks to the action of one high school, students and parents might have second thoughts about bringing them home. The parents of a Pennsylvania high school student, Blake J. Robbins, have filed a lawsuit against his school district after discovering that school officials had allegedly been remotely accessing the laptop in order to take webcam photos of the students at home (via BoingBoing). There are a number of unanswered questions about this story, but if true, it could mean serious penalties for the Lower Merion School District.
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