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	Trolling Effects site aims to fight patent trolls with crowdsourcing The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today unveiled Trolling Effects, a site where users can anonymously submit and search demand letters they've received from purported patent trolls, learn more about these "bad actors," and learn ways to navigate and fix the nation's broken patent system Read More WHITE PAPER: Level 3 Communications From Dumb Fat Pipes to Smart Enterprise WANs Incumbent carriers dominate the competitive landscape. However, competitive carriers are fast emerging as key challengers. Level 3, in particular, has been making inroads into the enterprise market through a combination of organic and inorganic growth strategies. Read Now In this Issue Researchers demo how apps, chargers can circumvent Apple iPhone, iPad security U.S. workers found to outperform offshore staff Facebook turns on secure browsing by default Aaron Swartz supporters label MIT report a 'whitewash' Senators push to curb NSA's FISA authorities WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now Researchers demo how apps, chargers can circumvent Apple iPhone, iPad security Call it a case of Jekyll apps that can hide. Georgia Tech researchers have developed a proof-of-concept attack called Jekyll that involves using Trojan Horse-style apps to sneak malware past Apple's app review process and onto iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad. Read More U.S. workers found to outperform offshore staff U.S.-based workers show more initiative and are more innovative and more understanding of the business than offshore workers, a new study that looks on sourcing services in the U.S has found. These qualities are helping to boost use of domestic IT services, especially as companies move to cloud-based services, said HfS Research, an IT services research firm and consultancy. Read More Facebook turns on secure browsing by default Facebook turned on a key security feature by default on Wednesday that scrambles data sent by users to the company's servers, following similar moves in recent years by Web services such as Google and Twitter. Two years ago, the social networking site gave users the option of using TLS (Transport Security Layer) encryption, indicated by "https" in the URL bar. TLS is the successor to SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), a system that uses public key cryptography to ensure greater privacy between two parties. Read More Aaron Swartz supporters label MIT report a 'whitewash' The case of "U.S. vs. Swartz," dating back two years, was doggedly pursued by federal prosecutors who sought jail time against the 26-year-old computer innovator Aaron Swartz for his alleged theft of a massive amount of scholarly articles from the JSTOR database service available through the MIT campus network at the time. Swartz committed suicide in January shortly before his trial was set to begin this year, and his death was a shock that prompted widespread media coverage. MIT's new 182-page report explains in detail why the university kept to its silent "neutrality" position, saying nothing one way or the other publicly about the federal prosecution of Swartz, who wasn't an MIT student. But some Swartz supporters called the MIT report a "whitewash" to "protect MIT's image." Read More Senators push to curb NSA's FISA authorities Amid growing concerns about loose oversight and insufficient transparency associated with the government's electronic surveillance operations, lawmakers on Thursday plan to introduce legislation that would rein in the authorities of the secret court operating under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Read More
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