Organized criminals were responsible for 85 percent of all stolen data last year and of the unauthorized access incidents, 38 percent of the data breaches took advantage of stolen login credentials, according to the 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations report.
Microsoft said that Google's deal with Yahoo Japan to replace its search service with Google's is more anti-competitive than a failed 2008 U.S. advertising deal between Yahoo and Google that the Justice Department said would violate U.S. antitrust laws.
After a string of online privacy problems this year, legislators grilled Google Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook and AT&T Inc., seeking assurance that user information will be protected in the future. Senators questioned whether new legislation is needed to protect people's personal information online during a hearing held by the Senate Commerce Committee.
Apple Inc., the world's most valuable technology company, was sued over claims its iPad tablet overheats and fails to operate properly in warm conditions. The complaint, filed July 23 in federal court in Oakland, California, seeks unspecified damages and class action, or group, status.
The European Union said that it has launched an antitrust probe against IBM Corp. related to allegations that the technology giant abused its dominant position in the mainframe computer market. IBM denied the charges, arguing that they are being driven by some of its rivals, led by Microsoft Corp.
Citigroup Inc. said its free U.S. mobile-banking application for Apple Inc.'s iPhone contained a security flaw and advised its customers to upgrade to a newer version that corrects the problem. In an incident that highlights the growing security challenges around wireless apps, Citi said its iPhone app accidentally saved information -- including account numbers, bill payments and security access codes -- in a hidden file on users' iPhones.
Jailbreaking your iPhone or other mobile device will no longer violate federal copyright law, the U.S. Copyright Office ruled. The decision, part of a process that takes place every three years, said that bypassing a manufacturer's protection mechanisms to allow "handsets to execute software applications" is permissible.
The website Chatroulette -- which unites people all over the world for live, random video chats -- has been plagued by awkward, and possibly illegal, nudity since it became wildly popular in February of this year. Now, the site's founder has proposed a solution: Track down the naked offenders and turn them in to the cops.
Google Inc. has missed the deadline on its high-profile contract to take over Los Angeles' e-mail system, leaving nearly 20,000 city employees on an aging system that the city is paying the Internet search giant $7.25 million to replace. Since winning a battle for the contract with rival Microsoft Corp. last year, Google has run into roadblocks at the Los Angeles Police Department, which has strict rules about the way its data is secured.
The Obama administration proposed trying to enhance access for people with disabilities to websites for hotels, retail stores and other public sites as well as improve access to movie theaters. Most of the proposals are aimed primarily at improved access for the deaf and the blind.
According to San Francisco police, a 31-year-old city resident rode a bicycle up to a woman in the South of Market neighborhood, snatched an iPhone out of her hands, and then pedaled away. Problem was, the woman was carrying the phone as part of a company's demonstration of a real-time GPS tracking program.
The BlackBerry, made by Canada's Research In Motion, is open to misuse that poses security risks to the United Arab Emirates, which said it would seek to safeguard its consumers and laws. Gulf state Bahrain in April warned against the use of BlackBerry Messenger software to distribute local news, drawing criticism from media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders which called it an act of censorship.
A security researcher uncovered a flaw in Apple's Safari Web browser that allows Internet sites to harvest personal information from visitors. The flaw, which exploits the Web browser's "auto-fill" capabilities, allows Web sites to scrape information like the name, e-mail, address, phone number and place of work of the person who uses the computer, which many Macintosh users store in their digital address books.
China's leading search engine, Baidu, can sue its U.S.-based domain name service provider, Register.com, for breach of contract, gross negligence and recklessness related to an attack by hackers, a U.S. judge ruled. The order in federal court in New York allows Baidu to proceed with a lawsuit it filed in January.
House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank's drive to establish a licensing and regulation system for Internet gambling still faces resistance within segments of the industry after a tribal group and a brick-and-mortar casino signaled resistance during a hearing.
A controversial, religiously charged post on conservative political figurehead Sarah Palin's official Facebook page has disappeared -- and a grassroots campaign to have it pulled from the social network may be responsible. Facebook says that a large number of reports from users that the note may have been in violation of its terms of service could have led to the note's automated removal.
In Atlanta, detectives scribble down gang tags scrawled on walls then search social networking sites for anyone posting under that tag. "When a detective has a person in their sights, one of the first things they do before they hit the road is look for them on Facebook, or any other tools that are out there," said Sgt. Dana Pierce, a police department spokesman.
Seven Republican senators have announced a plan to curb the Obama administration's push to impose controversial Net neutrality regulations on the Internet. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and six other GOP senators introduced legislation that would sharply curb the Federal Communications Commission's ability to regulate broadband providers.
The media industry may be in upheaval as a result of the web, but having the government step in isn't the right response, Google has told the Federal Trade Commission. The search company’s comments are a response to the FTC's draft proposal, released last month, on policy changes to support the media business and journalism in particular.
Connecticut's attorney general, who is leading a 37-state probe of Google's collection of data from private Wi-Fi networks, asked the Internet search leader if it had tested the software before using it. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal also asked for the names of the people responsible for the software, which Google has said was supposed to only use Wi-Fi to determine location, not to download personal email and other data.
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