James F. Booth

For more than 25 years, James Booth has provided consulting and legal services to telecommunications carriers and to enterprise companies that manage their own telecommunications networks. Since June of 2009 he has also served as General Counsel of Spread Networks, LLC, which is the industry leader in the construction and operation of low latency high speed networks. Before joining Spread he was General Counsel for OnFiber Communications, a competitive telecommunications provider, and was the sole attorney for Qwest Communications International in support of its construction of an 18,800 mile fiber optic network spanning the United States. Earlier he was lead counsel for U S WEST in its wireless and cable television ventures in the United States, Europe and Hong Kong.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

App publisher takes blame for massive Apple ID hack

A small digital publishing company said Monday it was the victim of a hack attack that resulted in the posting online of more than 1 million Apple user IDs last week. Hackers had originally claimed to have swiped the IDs from an FBI computer. BlueToad CEO Paul DeHart told CNN his company was investigating a breach last week at the same time hackers with AntiSec, one of several offshoots associated with the activist group Anonymous, posted the information online. http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/10/tech/web/apple-hack-bluetoad/index.html 
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