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Advanced Cyber Security Center Formed in New England
Published on 22 Sep, 2011 at 11:24 in Cyber | Viewed 79 times | No Comments
The Advanced Cyber Security Center launched earlier this week in Bedford, Mass with more than 200 industry, academia and government leaders attending including Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley.
An initiative of Mass Insight Global Partnerships hosted at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Mass., the Center is a next-generation collaboration of industry, university, and…
Mass. Attorney General Bans Internet Cafe Gambling
Massachusetts attorney general office filed emergency regulations Wednesday declaring illegal gambling at cyber cafes and “phone-card” videogaming terminals statewide, The Telegram reported.
According to the attorney general office, establishments such as cyber cafes sell Internet time or phone cards as a pretext for criminal online gambling. Customers at cyber cafes pay to gamble on a computer, usually playing a video slot machine or similar game….
Researchers Claim Martha Coakley Hit by ‘Twitter Bomb’ During Election Campaign
Published on 4 May, 2010 at 12:22 in Cloud | Viewed 60 times | No Comments
A new study by researchers at Wellesley College claim that a conservative group in Iowa may be responsible for a “Twitter bomb” campaign against Massachusetts’ Attorney General Martha Coakley, who ran against Scott Brown in a special Senatorial race following the death of Ted Kennedy.
Eni Mustafaraj and Panagiotis Metaxas, authors of “From Obscurity to Prominence in Minutes: Political Speech and Real-Time Search,” contend that during the election, a very…
