Spend enough time with cybersecurity experts and chances are you will hear some variation of this line: There are two types of companies in the United States, those that have been hacked and those that don’t yet know they’ve been hacked.Government intelligence officials and cybersecurity specialists say hackers — predominantly from China — are siphoning gigabytes, if not terabytes, of data from companies...
Media Decoder Blog: Robert Thomson to Be Chief of News Corporation's New Publishing Company
Labels: Business2:53 p.m. | Updated Robert Thomson, the top editor at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones and a confidante of News Corporation’s chairman and chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, is expected to be named chief executive of the media conglomerate’s newly spun-off publishing company.Mr. Thomson will run the separate, publicly traded company, which will include The Journal, The New York Post, HarperCollins...
Nov
30
Official Syrian Web Sites Hosted in U.S.
Labels: TechnologyEven as Syrians lost access to the Internet on Thursday, people outside the country could still browse the Syrian government’s many Web sites for much of the day because they are hosted in foreign countries, including the United States. By nightfall, after being contacted by The New York Times, several host companies said they were taking down those sites. They and similar companies had been...
Nov
29
Hacking Report Criticizes Murdoch Newspaper and British Press Standards
Labels: WorldLONDON — The leader of a major inquiry into the standards of British newspapers triggered by the phone hacking scandal offered an excoriating critique of the press as a whole on Thursday, saying it displayed “significant and reckless disregard for accuracy,” and urged the press to form an independent regulator to be underpinned by law. Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesLord Justice Sir Brian Leveson...
Peter Swire Named Mediator in Internet ‘Do Not Track’ Effort
Labels: TechnologyOver the last few months, an international effort to give consumers more control over the collection of their online data has devolved into acrimonious discussions, name-calling and witch hunts. Andrew Spear for The New York TimesPeter Swire, a law professor at Ohio State, was named as a mediator by the World Wide Web Consortium. The international group is trying to come up with standards...
Hypothermia and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Cases Soar in New York After Hurricane Sandy
Labels: LifestyleThe number of cold-exposure cases in New York City tripled in the weeks after Hurricane Sandy struck compared with the same period in previous years, the health department reported in an alert to thousands of doctors and other health care providers on Wednesday. And even though power and heat have been restored to most of the city, there are still thousands of people living in the cold, the...
Hypothermia and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Cases Soar in New York After Hurricane Sandy
Labels: HealthThe number of cold-exposure cases in New York City tripled in the weeks after Hurricane Sandy struck compared with the same period in previous years, the health department reported in an alert to thousands of doctors and other health care providers on Wednesday. And even though power and heat have been restored to most of the city, there are still thousands of people living in the cold, the...
U.S. Growth Revised Up, but Year-End Slowdown Is Feared
Labels: BusinessEven as the government said that the United States economy grew faster than first estimated in the third quarter, economists warned that the rate of expansion could slow sharply before the end of the year as worries mount about the fiscal impasse in Washington. Nam Y. Huh/Associated PressAn employee on the assembly line this month at Generac Power Systems in Whitewater, Wis., a maker...
Nov
28
As Opposition Meets in Cairo, More Violence Mars Syria
Labels: WorldThe Syrian opposition pushed ahead on military and political fronts on Wednesday, as rebels shot down a government warplane in the north of Syria and a newly formed coalition started talks in Cairo on how to pick a transitional government to replace that of President Bashar al-Assad. The coalition, whose official name is the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces,...
Dark Warnings About Future of Internet Access
Labels: TechnologyPARIS — A commercial and ideological clash is set for next week, when representatives of more than 190 governments, along with telecommunications companies and Internet groups, gather in Dubai for a once-in-a-generation meeting. The subject: Control of the Internet, politically and commercially. The stated purpose of the World Conference on International Telecommunications is to update...
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