SOPA, controversial online piracy bill, gains support as lobbying intensifies

House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) was adamant the bill would not pass the lower chamber, expressing confidence to The Hill that his colleagues would realize the bill is fatally flawed and cast it aside. Issa plans to propose his own bipartisan legislation after the Thanksgiving break that would address the issue of rogue foreign websites through a legal approach based on the International Trade Commission. 

Hacktivism efforts get a bad rap when it comes to web security, but it’s possible they’re actually doing more good than harm. In a security world empowered by big data tools, information gleaned from the countless attacks on LulzSec and Anonymous provide invaluable information to help stop similar attacks in the future. They’re like baits that attract hackers en masse.

The paper was authored by Steve Crocker, a longtime member of the Internet Engineering Task Force; David Dagon, a post-doctoral researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology; security researcher Dan Kaminsky; Verisign Chief Security Officer Danny McPherson; and Paul Vixie, chairman of the Internet Systems Consortium and principal author of popular versions of the BIND DNS server software.