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Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The indictments are part of the FBI’s Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US’s first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that…
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FBI, Dutch police crack the Shadow botnet

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

The law-enforcement bodies have cracked a major botnet, asking antivirus company Kaspersky to help victims clean up the malware on their PCs. In a joint operation, the FBI and the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit have cracked the Shadow botnet–thought to contain 100,000 PCs. Two…
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FBI warns of new Storm worm variant

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The email uses the phrase ‘FBI vs. Facebook’ in its subject line and contains a link to view an article about the FBI and Facebook. On Wednesday, the FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), warned against a new email campaign being used by the creators…
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FCC wants no porn, free broaband wireless auction

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

The FCC said it wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service without pornography WASHINGTON–The Federal Communications Commission on Friday said it wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service without…
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FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auction

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

The FCC said it wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service without pornography WASHINGTON–The Federal Communications Commission on Friday said it wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service without…
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Wireless auction concerns rise as some airwaves languish

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Bidding stalled on key piece of spectrum, prompting concern regulators will have to modify rules requiring it be shared with public safety agencies. Bidding remained stalled Tuesday on a key piece of spectrum in the U.S. government’s wireless airwaves auction, prompting concern regulators will have to modify rules…
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Wireless auction bids hit $3.7 billion

Friday, January 25th, 2008

But on second day of FCC auction, no new suitors emerged for a closely watched block of spectrum to be shared with public safety agencies. Bidding topped $3.7 billion on the second day of the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of government-owned airwaves, but there were no new suitors…
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Wireless auction opens with $2.4 billion bid total

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

High bids so far include $1.04 billion for spectrum block that is required to be open to all devices and software applications. Top bidders put up a total of more than $2.4 billion on Thursday in the opening round of the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of coveted U.S….
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Quit fooling with wireless spectrum auction

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Gregory Rosston of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research says recent moves by FCC chairman threaten successful history of auctions. On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to start the most important auction of the decade–the reallocation of television stations 50-69 to other wireless services. …
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Quit fooling with wireless-spectrum auction

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Gregory Rosston of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research says recent moves by FCC chairman threaten successful history of auctions. On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to start the most important auction of the decade–the reallocation of television stations 50-69 to other wireless services. …
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