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New digital “fingerprinting” software can fill in more details of cyber crimes, including tracking a hacker’s prior activity.

The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team warns people of potential malware scams this holiday season.

Can a cloud-based music storage service like MP3Tunes avoid copyright violations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provision?

Various observers speculate on whether the FCC will move ahead on net neutrality. Also, Scientific American has a lengthy essay on the virtues of an open internet.

Chris Lefkow at Yahoo News reports that the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA).  The controversial legislation has garnered intense criticism from groups such as Electronic Freedom Foundation and Computer and Communications Industry Association, that claim the bill “threatens Internet openness and freedom,” and will result in “Internet censorship.”

Click here to see read the bill in its entirety.

Sam Churchill over at DailyWireless reports on some early reviews of the product – so far, “[r]eviewers appear underwhelmed.”  Churchill also covers some developments with Hulu and Netflix.

Joseph Menn over that the FT Tech Blog discusses remarks made by FCC Chairman Genachowski in which he claimed the companies’ agreement had harmed his efforts to garner broad consensus on net neutrality principles.

Kate Murphy writing for the NYT reports on efforts by major cellular carriers to control the production, distribution, and usage of cellular signal boosters.  AT&T and Verizon issued separate filings from the CTIA, while Sprint and T-Mobile have evidently not brought any complaints on the matter.

Cardozo Law Professor Susan Crawford writes that the only (tenable) solution to the current broadband access stagnation is for the FCC to relabel it “telecommunications,” thereby enabling the agency to fulfill this administration’s (and previous ones) mandate for affordable broadband access to all Americans.

WaPo helps outline what a “Do Not Track” option would look like for web users and distinguishes that from the better known national Do Not Call Registry for cell phones.