- Competitive wireless carriers bash AT&T/Verizon 'duopoly'
- How Mobile Carriers Are Making Customers Pay For Safety--Why pay $5 a month to AT&T to block phone numbers, when this should be built-in to any smartphone?
- Why Your Phone, Cable & Internet Bills Cost So Much
- Whistleblower sacked over BT rural broadband leak
- Star Trek Captains hate Time Warner Cable!
- Regulators smash global phone tech support scam operation
- Telemarketers Recorded Through Virtual Machine
- 'Scareware' trickster fined $163m by US authorities
- "I am calling you from Windows": A tech support scammer dials Ars Technica
- Scam involves negative online reviews--"A company is putting horrible reviews of small business online, and then offering to improve the company's reputation and take the reviews off for a fraction of the cost that a real reputation improvement company would charge."
- Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger
- Advice from a Hacker on Picking a Good Password
- How Secure Are You Online: The Checklist
- How I cracked my neighbor’s WiFi password without breaking a sweat
- Widely used fingerprint reader exposes Windows passwords in seconds
- OSX Password Hack Everyone Should Know
- Online passwords: keep it complicated--"By now, you probably have about 20 different passwords you're struggling to remember. There must be an easier way. How do you stay one step ahead of the hackers – and still stay sane?"
- Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth
- The Man Who Hacked Hollywood
- Hacked Apple Device IDs Came From App Publisher, FBI Link Disputed--What can't be disputed is how plausible it was that the FBI was behind this. It was pretty cool how the breach was tracked.
- Yet another Java flaw allows "complete" bypass of security sandbox
- Virgin Mobile Shrugs as Coder Warns Accounts Are Easily Hijacked
- Trade group exposes 100,000 passwords for Google, Apple engineers
- White House says it was targeted by a phishing attempt, widely reported as a Chinese hack
- Microsoft discovers Chinese malware pre-installed on new PCs
- "Ransomware" Worm Now Spreading On Skype--Time to update.
- Sophos Antivirus Detects Itself as Malware, Deletes Key Binaries
- AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents--Can this crowdsourcing effort kill patent trolls?
- Pioneering patent troll seeks the Supreme Court's ear—plus a cool $12 million
- Twitter: It’s time for patent trolls to bear the costs of frivolous lawsuits
- How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system--"Federal Circuit Appeals Court marks 30 years of spreading the 'patent gospel.'"
- UK: James Dyson calls for reform to patent system--"Sir James Dyson has called on the Government to simplify the patent system so small businesses can afford to protect their designs."
- The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them)
- The Case Against Patents--"The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless the latter is identified with the number of patents awarded – which, as evidence shows, has no correlation with measured productivity."
- When Patents Become Weapons--Swords against competition. NYT
- Apple's wireless phone disabling patent
- GoDaddy Receives Patent On 'Announcing A Domain Name Registration On A Social Website'--So GoDaddy can sue anyone announcing any URL on Twitter or Facebook?
- Sony patent wants to make advertising more interactive
- International Trade Commission To Ban Importation of LED Production Lighting
- 'Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on [patents] exceeded spending on research and development of new products'
