Delaware company Innovatio IP Ventures, LLC is scaling up its patent litigation assault against businesses that offer wireless Internet to customers, filing six infringement lawsuits this month against individual branches of some of the country’s largest hotel chains. It’s a new tack for the company, which began filing patent claims in March against coffee shops and restaurant chains, including Caribou Coffee, Cosí and Panera Bread Co., and department stores.
Contemplating the company’s approach – suing the users of the technology rather than its manufacturers – a logical question emerges: Will the onslaught reach the front doors of average, WiFi-using, American households?
[Ha ha ha ha, land of the free indeed - where companies make money suing each other. May be this patent trolling madness will end when the American economy collapses completely...Soon to happen with this kind of behavior.]
An XSS bug in the iPhone and iPad version of the Skype client, in combination with an incorrect WebKit setting, allows an attacker to directly access files on the device, including the user’s Address Book. The XSS bug itself is an incorrect encoding of the incoming user’s “Full Name” which allows JavaScript code to be embedded in it.
We’ve all heard of the private cloud and the public cloud Well how about a country cloud?
Last week a story surfaced about Deutsche Telekom (DT), the German telecommunications giant, asking German regulators to provide a certificate for German and EU companies that proves the data is protected from US government prying.
DT intends to offer customers a more secure alternative and it wants some certification system in place to prove it. Let’s face it, the EU has much more stringent privacy laws in place to protect companies from government interference with their data.
Apple has dropped a couple of monumental password security clangers with the release on OS X Lion, according to security blogger Patrick Dunstan.
He discovered Apple’s developers had made user security worse in two important ways: firstly, it’s possible to change the password of the current user without needing to know the original password, as Dunstan explains.
[The lion eats one bad apple!!!!]
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