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A Cisco executive speaking at the company's European user conference this week, criticized net neutrality provisions in the EU's new privacy regulations. Big companies won't be able to afford the investment in good broadband if they're forced to give customers what they paid for. Duh.

If you're into malware or selling dodgy schemes through deceptive advertising, the new site offering to sell traffic stolen from other sites might be a good source of business. But, if you're legit, it's a good way to contact people guaranteed to already be mad at you.

Some of the web's largest sites plan dramatic displays to mark their opposition not to the just-shelved House SOPA bill, but to the still-viable, still dangerous Senate effort at Internet censorship, the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA)

The Consumer Electronics Show always generates a blizzard of hype, endlessly repetitive announcements of world-changing new products and a few real gems. This year's hype/news ratio is worse than usual, but it's not always obvious why, or what real innovations got buried.

Comcast's executives and its NBC subsidiary are hot for SOPA controls on Internet content. The company's geeks just finished a national rollout of DNS security, and killed a service based on the same mechanism SOPA uses for enforcement because it won't work with DNSSEC.

Ramnit malware evolved from Windows attack-app to a social-network surfer that steals Facebook logins and free access to corporate nets using comparatively insecure user accounts in the cloud to get passwords or authentication without directly attacking corporate accounts.

Startup Vioguard got FDA approval for a cool, self-retracting, self-disinfecting keyboard for hospitals that appears to work well enough, but overstates the problem, overestimates its effectiveness and doesn't appear to be as cost-effective as competitors.

Sources who'd rather not admit they work at Apple revealed to the New York Times that the company is working on a new generation of wearable smartphone products that sound as if they're designed to get consumers to buy more pieces of Apple to get the same set of functions.

A thousand employers screaming for your skills couldn't help you find a job if you were looking in the wrong place. In an exclusive analysis for ITworld, Dice.com breaks down what employers are looking for, cross-referenced by location. Good hunting.

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center issued a list of tips to avoid the most common scams and offers updates on the latest to hit the 'net as well as easy-to-read briefings to help identify anything suspicious.