The Department of Justice has asked Google for more information about its proposed acquisition of travel software firm ITA, the search engine giant said. In early July, Google announced that it would acquire ITA -- a software company specializes in organizing airline data like flight times, availability, and prices -- for $700 million.
The Federal Trade Commission said that a California marketing company had settled charges that it engaged in deceptive advertising by having its employees write and post positive reviews of clients’ games in the Apple iTunes Store, without disclosing that they were being paid to do so. The charges were the first to be brought under a new set of guidelines for Internet endorsements that the agency introduced last year.
Regulators dropped an investigation into whether LimeWire file-sharing software put users' personal information at risk of identity theft, according to a letter sent to the company. In the letter, the Federal Trade Commission said research showed consumers continue to inadvertently share sensitive documents via peer-to-peer software like LimeWire.
A gossip website has been hit with an $11 million judgment for libel and slander after posting false accusations about a Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader. The judgment against Dirty World Entertainment Recordings, which runs the site Thedirt.com, came after the site did not respond to a lawsuit brought by Sarah Jones.
As part of the draft of a law governing workplace privacy, the German government proposed placing restrictions on employers who want to use Facebook profiles when recruiting. As part of the draft of a law governing workplace privacy, the German government proposed placing restrictions on employers who want to use Facebook profiles when recruiting.
With little fanfare, the Pentagon is putting the finishing touches on a new strategy that will treat cyberspace as a domain of potential warfare -- and apply instant "active defense" to counterattacks that, in theory, could shut down the nation's transportation and commerce.
State lawmakers around the U.S. are struggling to decide if teenage "sexting" -- the practice of sending nude or sexually suggestive photos by cellphone -- is a serious crime, or juvenile folly run amok. About 20 states have enacted or proposed measures that deal with teenage sexters.
A top Pentagon official has confirmed a previously classified incident that he describes as “the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever,” a 2008 episode in which a foreign intelligence agent used a flash drive to infect computers, including those used by the Central Command in overseeing combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
After a monthlong standoff, Random House said that it now held the rights to publish e-book editions of 13 classic books that the literary agent Andrew Wylie had defiantly begun publishing last month under his own digital venture, Odyssey Editions. The dispute erupted in July, when Mr. Wylie announced that he was starting Odyssey Editions, which would release e-books exclusively through Amazon’s Kindle store.
Facebook, which claims more than 500 million users, sued Teachbook.com LLC on claims of trademark infringement and dilution, false designation, unfair competition, and cybersquatting.
Eighteen state attorneys general want Craigslist to remove listings for "adult services." The alleged problem: the popular classified site can't block enough potentially illegal ads, including those that promote prostitution and child trafficking.
India will take a final decision on August 30 on whether to block some BlackBerry services over which the country has security concerns, a senior government source said. The maker of the smartphone, Canada's Research In Motion, faces an August 31 deadline to give India the means to track and read its secure email that officials fear have the potential to be misused by militants.
Less than 24 hours after Microsoft said it couldn't patch Windows to fix a systemic problem, attack code appeared to exploit the company's software. Also, a security firm that's been researching the issue for the past nine months said 41 of Microsoft's own programs can be remotely exploited using DLL load hijacking, and it named two of them.
Users of Apple's iTunes services should keep a close eye on PayPal and credit card statements for fraudulent iTunes charges. For more than a year now, scammers have been racking up unauthorized charges on iTunes accounts, leaving Apple's customers to clean up the mess.
The Recording Industry Association of America said that current U.S. copyright law is so broken that it "isn't working" for content creators any longer. RIAA President Cary Sherman said the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act contains loopholes that allow broadband providers and Web companies to turn a blind eye to customers' unlawful activities without suffering any legal consequences.
Vladislav A. Horohorin, known as "BadB," is expected to appear soon before a French court that will decide on his potential extradition to the United States, where he could face up to 12 years in prison and a fine of $500,000 if he is convicted on charges of fraud and identity theft. For at least nine months, however, he lived openly in Moscow as one of the world’s most wanted computer criminals.
Motorola has a tangled history with hardcore Droid X fans as the company in the past has tried to crack down on attempts on to tweak the device. In its latest move, Motorola has sent cease-and-desist letters to websites that hosted a leaked version of the Android 2.2 Froyo update for the phone.
Apple has filed a patent application for technology that would restrict unauthorized users' access to a mobile device such as an iPhone. The application describes a method for detecting unauthorized users, locking down a device and then alerting the owner.
The controversial website WikiLeaks, which argues the cause of openness in leaking classified or confidential documents, has set up an elaborate global financial network to protect a big secret of its own -- its funding. WikiLeaks particularly tries to obscure payments for "basic infrastructure that could be attacked," for "servers that are engaged in source protection," and for "security engineers," founder Julian Assange said.
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion may provide some solution soon to help Indian security agencies access corporate e-mail by obtaining encrypted data in readable format, a government source said. Research In Motion faces an August 31 deadline to give Indian authorities the means to track and read BlackBerry Enterprise e-mail and its separate BlackBerry Messenger service.
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