Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) said he plans to hold a hearing next month to examine U.S. companies' business practices in "Internet-restricting countries." Durbin's announcement comes shortly after Google Inc.'s decision to reevaluate its operations in China, after suffering a cyber-attack it said was aimed at exposing the identities of advocates for democratic reform there.
A vast majority of online banking customers use their login credentials to access other websites, sharply increasing risk of attack to their bank account, Internet security firm Trusteer said. Some 73 percent of Internet bank clients share online banking password with non-financial sites, and 47 percent re-use both, their online banking user name and password, British firm Trusteer said, citing a sample of more than 4 million users.
As more organizations allow employees to use social media like Facebook and Twitter at work, cybercrime attacks on these networks have exploded, according to a report released by IT security firm Sophos. Reports of malware and spam rose 70 percent on social networks in the last 12 months, the security survey reveals.
A district court judge in Illinois has ordered the owner of a Web-based company to stop selling term papers unless he can prove he has permission from the papers' authors. The order was based on an earlier ruling in which the provider was found liable of copyright infringement after co-authors of an undergraduate research paper saw their work posted on three of the company's websites and sued in 2006.
On issues as varied as privacy, copyright protection and the dominance of Google's Internet search engine, the company is clashing with lawmakers, regulators and consumer advocates in Europe. And the fights are escalating across Western Europe.
The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission says someone gained access to a computer server that holds more than 80,000 records containing casino employee information. The Department of Administrative Services notified the commission that the server had been compromised.
Amazon.com shocked the publishing world when it pulled both the digital and physical books of Macmillan, the large international publisher, after Macmillan said it planned to begin setting higher prices for its e-books. But in a message to its customers posted to its Web site, Amazon said that while it strongly disagreed with Macmillan’s stance, it would concede to the publisher.
A massive scareware scam has been targeting Facebook users, in which a fake virus warning is distributed via e-mail and then forwarded or published to thousands of Facebook walls, according to researchers at security software vendor Panda Security.
Social networking site Tagged has won a $200,000 default judgment against an individual who allegedly spammed Tagged members by sending them messages with links to an adult dating Web site. In a ruling, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup in the northern district of California found that Erik Vogeler sent messages to 6,079 Tagged users and assessed damages of $25 per violation for a total of $151,975.
A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit that a Pennsylvania couple filed against Google after a driver for its Street View service took a panoramic photograph of their secluded home. But the Third Circuit Court of Appeals hinted that Aaron and Christine Boring may only be able to wrest $1 in damages from the search company -- unless they can prove that they were actually harmed in the moment the Google driver lingered on their property.
The next generation of "phishing" scams, focused on mobile banking, has begun, and it has the potential to do much more damage than earlier versions. As mobile-banking applications have increased in popularity, so has the risk of downloading and installing a fraudulent app that could draw your account information and, potentially, any other data stored on your mobile device.
Fujitsu, which applied for an iPad trademark in 2003, is claiming first dibs, setting up a fight with Apple over the name of the new tablet device that Apple plans to sell starting in March. "It's our understanding that the name is ours," said Masahiro Yamane, director of Fujitsu's public relations division.
A new report from McAfee -- In the Crossfire: Critical Infrastructure in the Age of Cyber War -- suggests that the use of cyber-attacks as a strategic weapon by governments and political organizations is on the rise. The survey follows closely on the heels of the attacks on Google and a number of other companies, which Google has declared were initiated by the government of China itself.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating 22 retailers for directing online shoppers to fee-based membership programs of discount clubs that often contain hidden charges. Cuomo sent subpoenas to websites for major retailers such as Barnes & Noble, Avon and Staples, which have deals with three companies that offer such discount programs, namely Webloyalty, Affinion/Trilegiant and Vertrue.
A revised legal settlement that would give Google the digital rights to millions of books remains under fire from rivals and other critics trying to persuade a judge to reject the agreement. The opposition mounted its latest attack on the deadline for filing objections with U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in New York.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has told China the United States is concerned about Chinese action that could infringe on Internet freedoms. Clinton told reporters she brought up tensions about alleged restrictions on the U.S.-based search engine Google when she met with her Chinese counterpart in London.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will press China's foreign minister on the issue of Internet freedom, a growing irritant in ties between the two powers, a senior U.S. official said. Clinton, in London for meetings on Yemen and Afghanistan, will meet Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and is likely to raise the dispute, which has been brought into focus by U.S. search engine giant Google's threat to abandon the Chinese market over charges of government interference.
The four top recording companies made a settlement offer to Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota woman who was found liable last summer of willful copyright infringement and ordered by a jury to pay $1.92 million in damages. And wasting little time, Thomas-Rasset's attorneys rejected the settlement offer almost immediately.
eHarmony Inc, which operates a website to help singles find relationships, said that it settled a class action lawsuit over same-sex matching. All claims against the company will be dismissed and a $2 million settlement fund will be established, eHarmony said, with $500,000 designated as a fund for claims by the class.
London police are setting up two specialist teams to deal with aspects of e-crime and ticketing fraud surrounding the 2012 Olympic Games. One of the teams will be dedicated to tackling e-crime related to the Olympics, such as attempted hacks on computer systems and fraud aimed at sponsors and prospective visitors.
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