Threat Level
"Privacy, crime and security online."
Author: Writers David Kravets, Ryan Singel and Kim Setter author this blog offshoot of Wired magazine.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Internet Law • Legal News Publication
Recent Posts from Threat Level
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Report: Cyber Attacks Caused Power Outages in Brazil
Electrical blackouts impacting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers targeting control systems, according to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. In a show set to air Sunday night,…
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National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate
A national data breach law got closer to passage this week. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills Thursday that address data security and breach notification, according to Government Information Security. The legislation was drafted…
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Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Conspiring to Break Video-Privacy Law
A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the company conspired with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video-rental and sale records. The suit, filed by Cathryn Harris in U.S. District…
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Here’s That Leaked Copyright Treaty Document
The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we wrote about on Wednesday appeared on Wikileaks today, and our source has cleared us to publish it here as well. We wrote that the document, (.pdf) if true,…
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Video: Raid on Romanian Bank Card Skimming Ring
Police in Romania this week swooped in on 19 members of an alleged international ring of bank-card skimmers that’s been active in Switzerland, Italy, France and the United States, according to local reports. Romania’s national…
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Teacher Claims Fingerprinting Is ‘Mark of the Beast’
A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them. The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming…
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Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest
The blogosphere is abuzz over an apparently leaked document showing the United States trying to push its controversial DMCA-style notice-and-takedown process on the world. But since Threat Level already lives in the land of the…
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Fed’s Search of Twittering Anarchist Upheld
Federal authorities can resume combing through the notebooks, memory cards and computers of a twittering anarchist being investigated for violating an anti-rioting law, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled Monday. U.S. district court judge Dora…
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Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting System
It’s an election system voters and math geeks can embrace. On Tuesday voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, got to try out a new, transparent voting system that lets voters go online to verify that their…
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MPAA Wants Congress to ‘Encourage’ 3 Strikes, Filtering
The Motion Picture Association of America wants Congress to “encourage” internet providers to filter out pirated movies, and to punish customers who repeatedly engage in piracy with a “graduated response” that might include disconnection from…