The Pentagon is contemplating an aggressive approach to defending its computer systems that includes preemptive actions such as knocking out parts of an adversary's computer network overseas -- but it is still wrestling with how to pursue the strategy legally.
Research In Motion, the maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, has averted yet another ban of its e-mail and messaging service, according to news reports. The Indian government said it will not shut down the service for at least another 60 days as it evaluates proposals RIM has offered that would allow the government to monitor wireless subscribers' communications.
A Las Vegas company established to sue bloggers who clip news content is expanding its operations to a second newspaper chain. Righthaven, LLC has struck a deal with Arkansas-based WEHCO Media to expand its copyright litigation campaign, in which bloggers and aggregators across the country are being sued on allegations of infringement.
Microsoft has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in its long-running patent-infringement battle against small Canadian firm i4i. Specifically, Microsoft wants to overturn earlier rulings that both Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 violated i4i’s patents for custom XML.
Software guru Paul Allen sued much of Silicon Valley, claiming Internet giants such as Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and eBay Inc. have built their businesses around what he says is his technology. Mr. Allen's suit, filed in federal court in Seattle, asserts those three companies and eight others are using technology developed a decade ago at the billionaire's now-defunct Silicon Valley laboratory.
Malware purveyors know people love to click on links about celebrities with reckless abandon, particularly if the pop-culture icon has run afoul of the law, cheated on his wife or endured some other sordid sort of misfortune. According to security-software vendor AppRiver, a new wave of crooks have begun using subjects, such as "Gwen Stefani Fatal Car Crash" to get people to open up their unsolicited emails.
Sony has won an injunction preventing three Australian distributors from selling a world-first hack that allows PlayStation 3 owners to run pirated games on the console. Games console makers have spent years battling in court to have the so-called "mod chips" banned from sale.
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.
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