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• Guilty plea for hacker who took Comcast off Web

  A member of a telephone hacking group known as Kryogeniks has pleaded guilty to taking Comcast's Web site offline in May 2008.

• Comcast launches first public U.S. trial of advanced DNS security

  Comcast unveiled on Tuesday an aggressive plan to deploy new DNS security mechanisms that are designed to protect Web site operators and consumers from a specific type of hacking attack that involves hijacking Web traffic and redirecting it to bogus sites.

• Comcast lengthens IPv6 lead

  Comcast continues to outpace rival U.S. cable companies in the development of next-generation Internet connectivity and content.

• Group: FCC needs to investigate mobile carrier Skype limits

  The open internet advocacy group Free Press last week asked the Federal Communications Commission to decide whether wireless carriers are violating US federal rules by blocking such applications as the low-cost Skype VoIP service.

• Comcast e-mail outage sparks Twitter updates galore

  Comcast.net e-mail went down for potentially millions of subscribers the better part of the day Saturday as users and observers got running commentary on the service provider's efforts to manage the situation via Twitter updates from Frank Eliason, the company's director of Digital Care.