The man accused by the U.S. government of accessing more than 73,000 U.S. military machines has lost his second appeal to the British Home Office against extradition. Gary McKinnon's recent diagnosis of having Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum, had not changed Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's decision that the self-confessed NASA hacker be extradited, McKinnon attorney Karen Todner said.
Google Profits from Typo-Squatting, Professor Says
Google is profiting from millions of typo-squatting websites that earn advertising from Google's Adsense advertising program, Harvard University professor Ben Edelman says. In a report published Monday, Edelman says Google profits from typo-squatting websites that run ads using Google's Adsense -- which, ironically, are often bought by the owners of the legitimate sites web surfers were trying to visit.
Intel Wants More Time to Respond to EU Charges
Intel has asked the European Union's second highest court for more time to respond to EU charges that it paid a retailer to favor PCs using its computer chips. The Commission issued charges against the world's biggest chipmaker in July, alleging that the U.S. company had paid a retailer to refrain from selling computers with chips made by competitor Advanced Micro Devices.
Schools Create Site to Allow Reporting of Bullies
Hoping to combat the "snitch" label that often leads to silent suffering, six Utah schools have introduced a Web site that allows students to anonymously report bullies. A Brigham Young University student, Justin Bergener, created the site, which also lets students post information about thefts, drugs and harassment.
Bush Signs Law Creating IP Enforcement Coordinator
President Bush signed into law an intellectual property enforcement bill that would consolidate federal efforts to combat copyright infringement under a new White House cabinet position. The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act establishes within the executive branch the position of Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, who will be appointed by the president.
Bush Signs Two Laws Against Internet Predators
President Bush signed two child predator laws: The Protect Our Children Act, which sets requirements for Internet companies to report incidences of child pornography; and the Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act, which requires a sex offender to provide the National Sex Offender Registry with all of his Internet identifiers, such as e-mail addresses.
Spy Software Targets World Bank's Computers
The World Bank Group's computer network -- one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation —--has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned. Sources inside the bank confirm that servers in the institution's highly restricted treasury unit were deeply penetrated with spy software last April.
Google Loses Two Copyright Cases in Germany
Google, owner of the world's most popular Internet-search engine, lost two copyright lawsuits in Germany over displaying photos and artworks as thumbnails in a preview of search results. Google's preview of a picture by German photographer Michael Bernhard violates his copyrights, the Regional Court of Hamburg ruled, his lawyer Matthies van Eendenburg said in an interview.
Judge Orders Palin to Save E-mails in Private Account
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin must save any e-mails she sent from private accounts regarding state business, an Anchorage judge ordered. The e-mails must be preserved until a lawsuit requesting the e-mails be made public is resolved, said Anchorage Superior Court Judge Craig Stowers.
Judge Refuses to Let 9/11 Mastermind Access Internet
A U.S. military judge has denied a request from professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for Internet access inside his Guantanamo cell, ruling he does not need it to prepare for his death penalty trial. Judge Ralph Kohlmann, a Marine colonel, said Mohammed knew he would face prison restrictions when he chose to act as his own lawyer.
Bush to Sign Law Restricting Online Pharmacies
President Bush is set to sign legislation that will help the federal government crack down on hundreds of rogue Internet pharmacies that peddle controlled substances like the painkiller Vicodin or the stimulant Ritalin. The bill reflects growing concern among parents and public-health experts that certain online pharmacies enable almost anyone to purchase drugs with a few mouse clicks and without seeing a doctor or getting a valid prescription.
RealDVD Suit About "Controlling Innovation," EFF Says
The group that advocates for the rights of Internet users said in a blog post that the the primary reason the Motion Picture Association of America filed a copyright suit against RealNetworks and is trying to halt the sale of the RealDVD software is to make sure the company, and anyone else wishing to build movie players, gets Hollywood's permission first. "It has nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with controlling innovation," said Fred von Lohmann, EFF's senior attorney.
Sophisticated Virus Attack Targets YouTube Users
Even some sophisticated surfers could get taken in by a sneaky new attack in which criminals create fake YouTube pages -- dead-on replicas of the real site -- to push their malicious software and make it look like it's safe stuff coming from a trusted source. A program circulating online helps hackers build those fake pages.
Spam Attack Blocks E-mail Access for Virgin Customers
Tens of thousands of Virgin customers have spent four days cut off from, or with little access to, their e-mail accounts after a suspected spam attack. The problem affected a company which processes messages delivered through the Virgin.net platform.
Company Drops Plan to Sell ISP Data to Advertisers
Another company is giving up on the idea that American Internet providers should be able to watch where their customers surf and sell that information to advertisers. This time it is Adzilla, a start-up in Brisbane, Calif., that is closing its North American operations. Its chief executive, Toby Gabriner, has resigned.
TiVo Gets $104.6 Million from Echostar in Patent Case
TiVo said it has received the $104.6 million in damages from EchoStar that it won when the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal of a patent infringement case. TiVo said in a statement that it received the damages following the Supreme Court's decision not to review an appellate court's ruling.
Kazakhstan Internet Users Say Blog Service Blocked
Internet users in Kazakhstan complained of censorship after being unable to access the popular blogging service Livejournal, but the state-owned telecoms company denied it was blocking it. Associates of Rakhat Aliyev, the former son-in-law of President Nursultan Nazarbayev who fell out with the veteran leader last year, started their own blog on Livejournal in June which often contains critical comments about the government.
Lawmaker's Son Indicted in Palin E-mail Hacking
The son of Democratic state Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis faces a December trial in Knoxville on a charge that he hacked into a personal e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. David C. Kernell, 20, a 2006 Germantown High School graduate and now an economics major at the University of Tennessee, pleaded not guilty during an arraignment in Knoxville.
Couple Ordered to Pay $236 Million for Sending Spam
A federal judge has ordered an Arizona couple to pay more than $236 million for sending millions of spam messages to a small Iowa ISP. Henry Perez and his wife Suzanne Bartok were ordered to pay the damages -- amounting to $10 per bulk e-mail -- following a four-year court case in which the judge found that they had bombarded CIS Internet Services of Clinton, Iowa, over a four-month period in 2003.
Adobe Fixes "Clickjacking" Security Flaw in Flash
Adobe issued a workaround for a serious issue that could allow attackers to change the security settings within Flash. Termed "clickjacking," the process gives "an attacker the ability to trick a user into clicking on something only barely or momentarily noticeable," wrote WhiteHat Security CTO Jeremiah Grossman in a blog posting last month.
