Federal prosecutors have, despite public opinion and, arguably, common sense, decided not to file any criminal charges against a suburban Philadelphia school district after an investigation of its use of webcams. U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger says "investigators have found no evidence of criminal intent," the reason for the lack of a further investigation.
A hack attack that can expose users to malware exploits has infected more than one million web pages, at least two of which belong to Apple. The SQL injection attacks bombard the websites of legitimate companies with database commands that attempt to add hidden links that lead to malware exploits.
Talks between the United Arab Emirates and Canada's Research In Motion may soon resolve a spat over BlackBerry security, two UAE diplomats said. The UAE, where RIM has 500,000 users, has said it would suspend BlackBerry Messenger, email and Web browser services from October 11 until the government could get access to encrypted messages.
Spain has become the latest country to launch an investigation into the collection of sensitive wi-fi data by Google. A Google representative has now been summoned to appear before a judge in Madrid on 4 October.
Cybersquatting has come to Chicago, making an especially biting appearance in a Cook County political race. Forrest Claypool, the independent candidate for assessor, launched JoeBerrios.com, a website with the name of his Democratic opponent.
As many as five million Web sites hosted by Network Solutions have been serving up malware, probably for several months, a security expert said. "This is one of the biggest infections for drive-by download attacks that I've seen," said Wayne Huang, co-founder and CTO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Armorize Technologies, a Web application security company.
Research In Motion has assured India of limited access to BlackBerry instant messages by September 1, and promised talks on monitoring its more secure corporate email, a government source said. RIM faces an August 31 deadline to give authorities the means to track and read BlackBerry Enterprise email and its separate BlackBerry Messenger service.
The U.S. should write rules on Internet traffic and ignore an agreement between Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., four Democratic lawmakers said. The Federal Communications Commission should bar companies such as Verizon and AT&T Inc. from slowing content over their wires or mobile-phone networks, the lawmakers said in a letter to Chairman Julius Genachowski.
The latest viral scam making its way around Facebook is a lure that asks users if they want to install a "dislike" button, says the security firm Sophos. The scam, like previous ones that promise users certain content for clicking on a link, tricks Facebook members into giving a rogue application permission to access their profile and then posts spam messages from the victim's account and requires the completion of an online survey in order to proceed to the "dislike" button.
AT&T, Verizon, Vonage and other leading telecommunication companies sent a letter to the FCC recently urging the commission not to subject Internet telephony to state fees for the Universal Service Fund, a program that subsidizes telecommunications costs in low-income and rural areas.
As head of one of the largest U.S. Internet service providers, Time Warner Cable Inc. Chief Executive Glenn Britt stands at the center of a debate whose outcome could shape the future of Internet use in America. Mr. Britt says he has no plans to speed up or slow down Web traffic in a way that would violate the FCC's net neutrality principles, but he objects to having more regulation imposed on his company that could limit its options to compete in the fast-changing Internet business.
A lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that a group of well-known Web sites, including those owned by Disney, Warner Bros. Records, and Demand Media, broke the law by secretly tracking the Web movements of their users, including children. The suit alleges that Clearspring Technologies, a software company that creates widgets and also offers a way to serve ads via widgets, is at the center of the wrongdoing.
Federal prosecutors and child safety advocates say they're seeing an upswing in cases of online sexual extortion. They say teens who text nude cell phone photos of themselves or show off their bodies on the Internet are being contacted by pornographers who threaten to expose their behavior to friends and family unless they pose for more explicit porn, creating a vicious cycle of exploitation.
A midlevel Apple manager was arrested and accused of accepting more than $1 million in kickbacks from half a dozen Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories in a federal indictment unsealed and a separate civil suit. Paul Shin Devine, a global supply manager, and Andrew Ang, of Singapore, were named in a 23-count federal grand jury indictment for wire fraud, money laundering and kickbacks.
More than 200 U.K. Facebook users have reported suspicious behaviour following the launch of a "panic button" application last month, figures show. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, which created the app, say the figures represent a seven fold increase in reports.
Setting the stage for a clash of two Silicon Valley titans, Oracle said it has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Google's popular Android operating system was built on Oracle's Java software without permission. Android, which was first released in late 2008, has seen surging adoption by computer manufacturers as an operating system for smartphones and other portable gadgets.
A founder of one of the world's most sophisticated Internet sites for trafficking stolen credit card information has been arrested by French police based on a U.S. criminal indictment, the U.S. Secret Service and Justice Department announced. Vladislav Anatolieviech Horohorin, 27, was seized at the Nice airport en route from the Mediterranean principality of Monaco to Moscow, where he resides, authorities said.
Google defended its Net neutrality proposal that it co-authored with Verizon Communications in a post on its public-policy blog. "On balance, we believe this proposal represents real progress on what has become a very contentious issue, and we think it could help move the network neutrality debate forward constructively," said Richard Whitt, Google's telecommunications and media counsel in Washington, D.C.
The majority of Americans do not favor making affordable high-speed Internet access a government priority, according to a study released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Whether it is due to anti-government sentiment, a shifting of priorities in a tough economic environment or the uncertain benefits of the Internet, 53 percent of those surveyed said that expansion should not be attempted by the government or it was not an important priority.
WikiLeaks, having prompted a torrent of criticism for its release of 76,000 secret U.S. military documents last month, now faces growing pressure to withhold or redact the remaining 15,000 classified documents in its possession. U.S. officials say a criminal investigation into the leak of the documents is proceeding, and they warn that an additional release of classified material could expose the leakers to criminal prosecution.
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