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European Parliament Joins Criticism of SOPA | PCWorld Business Center
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On Friday the parliament adopted, by a large majority, a resolution that “stresses the need to protect the integrity of the global Internet and freedom of communication by refraining from unilateral measures to revoke IP addresses or domain names.”
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SOPA would enable the U.S. government to block access to websites internationally.
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“In recent years, the United States has been increasingly using the fact that much of the Internet’s infrastructure and key businesses are under U.S. jurisdiction in order to impose sanctions on companies and individuals outside its jurisdiction. This started two years ago when the domain names of a Spanish company owned by a British businessman were removed by a U.S.-based registrar. The company was never accused of breaking Spanish law,” said digital civil liberties group EDRi in a statement.
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Darpa’s New ‘Fast Track’ Okays Hacker Projects in Just Seven Days | Danger Room | Wired.com
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With an eye on hacker-minded researchers who operate on small budgets and in their free time, Darpa is awarding small, short-term contracts to those who have a knack for discovering holes in network defenses.
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At a “colloquium” with hacker-types in Virginia last week, Darpa director Regina Dugan also said that the agency was interested in developing offensive cyber capabilities.
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Consultant Charlie Miller is focusing on the security of “Near Field Connections,” which allows a smartphone to transmit credit-card account information to a reader, so you can pay for things by tapping your phone against a terminal. “I’m looking at the security of the software that runs NFC,” he said. “If I walked over to you, could I take over your phone?”
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China to make unending efforts to protect IPR: vice premier |Politics|chinadaily.com.cn
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The Chinese government has been cracking down on IPR violations by launching frequent ,high-profile raids and destroying seized materials .
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Earlier this month, a Bloomberg News investigation revealed that an Italian surveillance-equipment company, Area, is actively helping the Syrian regime track the same type of people the EU is trying to support – including even building a new facility to monitor all electronic communications in the country.
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“That process needs to be stopped,” said Marietje Schaake, a Dutch member of the European parliament. “Because if we in the EU are so critical – and we have been – of human rights violations in Syria, I think we should do even more to stop these violations. But we’re completely losing our credbility if at the same time EU-based companies are supplying such serious tools and know-how.”
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Beyond Area and its actions in Syria, UK-based Vodafone has also been under scrutiny.
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Vodaphone Egypt obeyed regime orders to cut off service and send out pro-government text messages to subscribers
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The company said it examined its contract and Egyptian law and found the government could in fact issue such an order and that Vodaphone legally had no alternative but to comply
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“[Companies would say]: ‘You can’t expect us to be on the front line of defending human rights when your government won’t even deal with the issue themselves,’” he also told Deutsche Welle. “So the Europeans could have had conversations with the Egyptian government about the obligations placed on Vodaphone Egypt as a condition for operating there.”
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RCMP called in to investigate Canadian servers hosting Syrian websites – The Globe and Mail
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more than a dozen Syrian government websites, including the ministries of culture and transport, are being carried by Canadian Web servers. In addition, Citizen Lab researchers say that websites belonging to a Syrian government-affiliated TV station and the media arm of Hezbollah were also hosted in Canada
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“Canada has enacted targeted sanctions against certain Syrian government entities and individuals. Canada has not enacted a broad embargo against doing business with Syria,” the company said in a statement.
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The company added that it discovered in 2008 that it had inadvertently hosted two websites affiliated with Hezbollah. “When iWeb learned of the websites’ affiliation, it cancelled its web hosting services,” it said.
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Nasdaq hacking: Lax security culprit – Times Of India
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surprisingly lax security practices that made the exchange operator an easy target for hackers,
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The sources, however, said the investigators were surprised to find some computers with out-of-date software, misconfigured firewalls and uninstalled security patches that could have fixed known ” bugs” that hackers could exploit. Versions of Microsoft Corp’s Windows 2003 Server operating system, for example, had not been properly updated.
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Computer security is uneven across industry and many companies, even in the defense sector, are unaware of malware lurking in their networks, cyber experts say.
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Russia, France to team up on ‘hi-tech rockets’ | World | RIA Novosti
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“Russian and French engineers are already working in this direction under Project Ural,”
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The 15-year Ural program to build advanced reusable carrier rockets was adopted in 2005
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The project is still at the conceptual stage
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It was earlier reported that the future Ural rocket will be a reusable one, fueled by liquid hydrogen and liquid methane, and should supersede the Russian Soyuz and French Ariane carriers some time in 2020-30
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Officials say Beijing’s free Wi-Fi will be safe|Policies|chinadaily.com.cn
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However, to obtain the access password they need to enter cell phone numbers “for identity authentication” according to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology.
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“If I log on to the Wi-Fi and there happens to be a sales promotion, they might send the information to my cell phone since they know my number and position,” Zhou said.
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“They might know what I’m interested in and what I might purchase according to what I have viewed online. I have to trade my privacy for free services.”
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An employee at the Beijing branch of the China Mobile Communications Corp, surnamed Yang, said the requirement of submitting a phone number to log on will help trace those whose online activity might endanger social security.
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“We’re not sure whether the service will still be free three years from now,” said Liu Yan, spokesman for the Informatization Office at Xicheng district government. “But very likely the city will be running under different models, with Wi-Fi services paid by individuals, companies or government in the future.”
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BBC News – Pentagon tests long-range hypersonic weapon
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Its aim is to allow the US military to strike targets anywhere in the world within an hour.
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However, defence analysts Global Security.org say the aim of the programme is to be able to strike a target 3,700 miles (6,000km) away in 35 minutes, with an accuracy of 10m.
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Earlier this year a congressional report said the programme was part of a project to develop a “prompt global strike” system that can deliver long-range weapons anywhere in the world while avoiding flying over third-party nations.
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China may become world’s biggest patent filer|Society|chinadaily.com.cn
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The rising number of patent filings showed improvements in protection of intellectual property (IP )rights in China ,according to the report . -
However ,it noted that China is not as active in filing international patent applications .Only 5.6percent of China ‘s inventions had been filed for international patents ,compared with 48.8percent in the United States and 38.7percent in Japan .
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