Scotland Yard is advising administrators of public Web spaces to periodically poke through their customers' files and keep an eye out for suspicious activity. The Metropolitan Police said that the initiative — which has been rolled out over the past weeks under the auspices of the government's counterterrorism strategy — is aimed at reminding cafe owners that authorities are ready to hear from them if they have concerns about their Internet users.
A Chinese government ministry ordered Chinese media companies to toe the government line in their reporting on Google's decision to move its search operations to Hong Kong. The list of instructions contains specific details on which types of stories can be published and asks media outlets in China to purge reader discussions from their pages that attack the government's view.
A computer hacker has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping engineer one of the largest thefts of credit and debit card numbers in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Patti Saris sentenced Albert Gonzalez of Miami, who pleaded guilty last year to breaking into computer systems of major retailers, including TJX and BJ's Wholesale Club.
Republican lawmakers said the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to expand high-speed Internet shouldn’t be followed with broad regulations. “You all are trying to fix something that in most cases isn’t broke,” Representative Joe Barton of Texas, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said at a hearing in Washington.
A top Google executive called for new rules to crack down on governments that filter the Internet, saying the practice was hindering international trade. Alan Davidson, director of United States public policy for Google, told a joint Congressional panel that the United States and other democracies should draft trade agreements that incorporate pledges to keep Web sites uncensored.
A French man has been arrested for hacking into the Twitter account of President Barack Obama, French police said. The 25-year-old man, who lives in central France, also stole information online about other celebrities, including Britney Spears, stealing passwords for email accounts and publishing personal information on the Web.
GoDaddy.com Inc., the world's largest domain name registration company, told lawmakers that it will cease registering Web sites in China in response to intrusive new government rules that require applicants to provide extensive personal data, including photographs of themselves. The rules, the company believes, are an effort by China to increase monitoring and surveillance of Web site content and could put individuals who register their sites with the firm at risk.
An examination of the FTC's complaint and documents from a legal dispute among Innovative Marketing Ukraine's executives offer a rare glimpse into a dark, expanding -- and highly profitable -- corner of the Internet, cybercrime. IMU was at the center of a complex underground corporate empire with operations stretching from Eastern Europe to Bahrain; from India and Singapore to the United States.
Foreign countries that fail to crack down on cyber criminals operating within their borders could face a host of new economic penalties if a Senate bill becomes law. That legislation, authored by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), aims to cut down on the growing number of "countries of cyber concern" -- states in which fraud schemes, cyber attacks and computer hacks targeting the United States are routinely plotted, they said.
The alleged Chinese cyber attacks on Google have spurred proposals at the State Department and on Capitol Hill to establish an ambassador-level cybersecurity post and to tie foreign aid to a country's ability to police cybercrime. In the wake of the cyber attacks on Google, officials at the State Department circulated a proposal to create an ambassador-like post, according to officials briefed on the proposal.
A computer hacker who helped orchestrate one of the largest thefts of credit and debit card numbers in U.S. history faces sentencing for hacking into computer systems of major retailers, including TJX, BJ's Wholesale Club and Sports Authority. Prosecutors plan to ask for a 25-year prison sentence for Albert Gonzalez, a former federal informant from Miami who pleaded guilty last year in three separate hacking cases brought in Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York.
In a blog post, Twitter comments on the “State of Twitter Spam.” Once a pressing issue for most Twitizens, the graph shows pretty clearly a sharp reduction over the past eight months or so -- so much so that the current spam volume is now down to about 1% of the total volume of tweets per day.
Washingon's new U.S. Cyber Command is prepped and ready but is still waiting for Senate approval of its new commander before it can open for business. The new command would unify and administer the U.S. Department of Defense's vast computer networks to better defend against cyberattacks.
The Internal Revenue Service's failure to use strong passwords, install patches quickly, and adequately control access to computer systems and information makes the system vulnerable to insider threats and attacks from outside, a new government report concludes. The IRS has failed to fix almost 70 percent of control weaknesses and program deficiencies identified a year ago, the Government Accountability Office said in a report.
As Google began redirecting tens of millions of Chinese users to its uncensored Web site in Hong Kong, the company’s remaining mainland operations came under pressure from its Chinese partners and from the government itself. Mainland Chinese users still could not see much of the unfiltered Hong Kong search results because government firewalls either disabled searches for highly objectionable terms completely or blocked links to certain results.
The European Union’s highest court ruled that brand owners may have the right to block Google from selling their trademarks as keywords that generate advertisements on Google’s search engine. In a case brought by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the luxury goods company, the European Court of Justice said that Google, the U.S. Internet company, should not be automatically required to block all such sales of brand names.
The organization that administers Russia's .ru top-level domain names will soon begin verifying the identity of its customers in an attempt to crack down on cybercrime, according to reports. Starting April 1, Russia's Coordination Center for will require individuals and businesses applying for a .ru domain address to provide a copy of a passport or legal registration papers.
A landmark ruling at Europe's highest court will determine whether advertisements that pop up alongside Internet search results when consumers search for brand names such as Louis Vuitton violate European trademark laws. The court will also rule whether Internet giant Google can be held liable for any breaches of trademarks in advertisements that appear on its Web site.
Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions by Chinese hackers, Google said that it was closing its China-based Internet search service and instead directing Chinese users to a Hong Kong-based uncensored version of its search engine, which may get blocked in mainland China. In a blog post, Google also said that it would retain much of its existing China operations, including its research and development team and its local sales force.
Malware that exploits holes in popular applications is being delivered by big ad delivery platforms including those run by Yahoo, Fox, and Google, according to Prague-based antivirus firm Avast. Viruses and other malware were found to be lurking in ads last year on high-profile sites like The New York Times and conservative news aggregator Drudge Report.com, and this year on Drudge, TechCrunch and WhitePages.com.
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