JC Penney was one of the victims of notorious computer hacker Albert Gonzalez, according to unsealed documents made available on by a federal judge in Boston. Penney, which during Gonzalez' trial had asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to bar the government from disclosing its identity, was revealed in the documents to be the company that had been known throughout the trial as "Company A."
Google said many users in China were blocked from using its search service by a technical glitch that made their search queries appear to be associated with Radio Free Asia, which is blocked by Chinese authorities. Google said the problem was triggered by changes it made to its own search code, and it is looking at how to resolve the problem.
A Taiwanese chipmaker is suing Apple over the use of multitouch technology in several products, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, and forthcoming iPad. Elan Microelectronics filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission Tuesday, accusing Apple of violating an Elan-owned patent that covers "touch-sensitive input devices with the ability to detect the simultaneous presence of two or more fingers."
Facebook users are expressing strong disapproval of proposed privacy changes that will let the site share some user information with third-party Web sites and applications. Under Facebook's current rules you're asked first if you want to share information (your name, photos and friends list) with third-party sites.
A broad coalition of companies including Google, Microsoft, and AT&T, joined by liberal and conservative advocacy groups, will announce a major push to update federal privacy laws to protect mobile and cloud computing users, CNET has learned. They hope to convince the U.S. Congress to update a 1986 law -- written in the pre-Internet era of telephone modems and the black-and-white Macintosh Plus -- to sweep in location privacy and documents stored on the Web through services like Google Docs, Flickr, and Picasa.
Company and federal officials said they believed the theft of identity data on 3.3 million people with student loans was the largest-ever breach of such information and could affect as many as 5% of all federal student-loan borrowers. Names, addresses, Social Security numbers and other personal data on borrowers were stolen from the St. Paul, Minn., headquarters of Educational Credit Management Corp., a nonprofit guarantor of federal student loans, during the weekend of March 20-21, according to the company.
A group of House Energy and Commerce members are urging the FTC to investigate complaints that Google's Buzz social networking service and some of its other services may harm consumer privacy. In a letter sent to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, the lawmakers urged the agency to investigate whether Google disclosed personal information about its customers without their consent as part of the launch of Buzz in February.
The United States has raised concerns with Australia about the impact of a proposed Internet filter that would place restrictions on Web content, an official said. The concerns of Australia's most important security ally further undermine plans that would make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among the world's democracies.
Like so many parts of the Web, cloud computing doesn’t fit neatly under regulatory oversight of any one agency. Check out Verizon and AT&T’s call for Congress to rethink the way federal regulators oversee Internet service providers, applications, cloud computing and device makers.
A community reeling from the suicide of a popular high school senior turned its sorrow to outrage over a practice known as "trolling," in which derogatory, hurtful comments are posted online against a person. In this instance, a tribute site created for Alexis Pilkington, 17, of West Islip High School was the target of insulting messages after her death.
As Microsoft struggles to fight off several high-visibility patent lawsuits, an ophthalmologist in Wisconsin has filed another patent infringement suit that potentially could cost the software giant an eye-popping amount. The suit, filed in U.S. District for the Western District of Wisconsin, alleges that Microsoft's Zune music player's "Buy from FM" feature infringes a pair of patents that were granted in 2002.
Google is using Internet freedom as a rallying cry in its confrontation with China. But the deafening silence from U.S. corporations underscores how increasingly isolated Google looks in its hope to rewrite the rules in the country with the biggest number of Internet users.
A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office document shows Fujitsu turned the iPad trademark over to Apple officially on March 17. Though it's not disclosed, we can assume that Fujitsu was compensated in some way for assigning that trademark, which it has owned since 2003, to Apple.
More malware is now coming out of China than from any other country, according to a new report from Symantec. The United States still leads the world in the number of malware attacks sent from mail servers.
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.
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