A San Francisco group that defends online free speech is taking on a Las Vegas company it says is shaking down news-sharing Internet users through more than 140 copyright infringement lawsuits filed this year. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's counterclaim represents the first significant challenge to Righthaven LLC's unprecedented campaign to police the sharing of news content on blogs, political sites and personal Web pages.
Iran has arrested an unspecified number of “nuclear spies” in connection with a damaging worm that has infected computers in its nuclear program, the intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said. Mr. Moslehi also told the semiofficial Mehr news agency that the ministry had achieved “complete mastery” over government computer systems and was able to counter any cyberattacks by “enemy spy services.”
A Kansas City woman is accused of driving to Iowa intent on killing a man she believed had written derogatory comments about her on the Internet, authorities said. Breana Danielle Greathouse, 25, was charged with one felony and two misdemeanors.
The report came in to the Omaha FBI office in May 2009 about suspicious payments wired to 46 separate bank accounts. The tipster -- from a part of the financial industry that federal officials are keeping anonymous -- ended up turning law enforcement on to a massive cybercrime operation that was feeding an insidious virus onto computers across the United States from a base in Ukraine.
The maker of the BlackBerry smartphone has granted India's government manual access to its Messenger service and has promised automated access by January 1, enabling authorities to track such messages in real time, the country's top interior ministry official said.
Ukraine authorities have arrested five individuals who allegedly directed a global cybercrime scheme that used a version of the Zeus Trojan computer virus to steal $70 million from U.S. bank accounts, FBI officials said. They told a news briefing that Ukraine authorities took the five individuals into custody and conducted searches under eight warrants on Thursday as part of an international crackdown that dismantled the operation.
Microsoft Corp. filed a patent lawsuit against Motorola, saying the smartphone maker had infringed on nine patents in its Android-based devices. Microsoft said in its press release that it filed the action with the International Trade Commission and in a Washington District Court.
India's Department of Telecommunications is not satisfied with the access Research In Motion is providing to security agencies for interception of communications on both its instant messenger and enterprise services, according to a report in The Economic Times, an Indian daily.
The case of a Rutgers University student who committed suicide after his roommate allegedly posted secretly taped footage of him having a sexual encounter shows that cyberbullying isn’t just for middle-schoolers. And psychologists say colleges should do more to combat it.
European Union policymakers said on they want to combat large-scale cyber attacks that could paralyze modern, industrialized nations that rely on computer networks. Proposals put forward by the European Commission include criminalizing the use and creation of malicious software or possession of tools such as passwords for breaking into computer systems. Read the article: Reuters
More than 50 people have been charged in international schemes that used computer viruses to steal millions of dollars from bank accounts in the U.S and England, state and federal prosecutors said in New York. The cyber attacks began in Eastern Europe and included malware known as the "Zeus Trojan," which was typically sent as as an e-mail to computers at small businesses and offices in the United States.
Authorities say a Rutgers University student used a camera in his dormitory room to stream his roommate's intimate gay encounter live on the Internet. And three days later, the roommate who had been surreptitiously broadcast jumped from the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River in an apparent suicide.
A New York state judge has ruled that a woman's deleted postings on Facebook and MySpace must be turned over to a company fighting allegations she suffered “permanent injuries” that have prevented her from living an active lifestyle.
Net neutrality is joining the growing list of issues Congress isn't likely to act on this year, putting new pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to take up the matter. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, failed to win support for a proposal that would have limited the FCC's power to regulate broadband traffic.
Police have arrested 19 people on suspicion of taking part in an online fraud that hit thousands of customers of some of the world's biggest banks, a police spokesman said. London's Metropolitan Police said 6 million pounds ($9.5 million) was stolen from a number of unnamed major world banks in one three-month period.
The Commerce Department announced the last of its more than $4 billion in stimulus grants for the expansion of broadband Internet lines. The program, as part of the Recovery Act, was designed to jump-start the economy and provide the underlying technology needed for new businesses and economic growth.
An Iranian news Web site reported that Hossein Derakhshan, an influential Iranian-Canadian blogger who was arrested two years ago when he returned from self-imposed exile to live in Iran, was sentenced to nearly two decades in prison by a court in Tehran. As Cyrus Farivar, an Iranian-American journalist, noted on his blog, Iran’s Mashregh News reported that Mr. Derakhshan sentenced to 19.5 years in jail for “conspiring with hostile governments, spreading propaganda against the Islamic system, spreading propaganda in favor of counterrevolutionary groups, blasphemy, and creating and managing obscene Web sites.”
A group of public interest and industry groups wrote Senate Judiciary Committee leaders voicing concerns with legislation aimed at curbing online piracy and counterfeiting and calling for a hearing to better evaluate the measure.
The licensing fee that Yahoo Inc. and RealNetworks Inc. pay to offer streaming music on their websites is again up for debate. The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals asked a lower court to take another look at the rates it set for Yahoo and RealNetworks to pay in licensing fees to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Apple has sued Nokia in Britain, extending the two technology giants' legal battle over patents beyond U.S. borders. The two firms have been locked in a legal tussle since last October, when Nokia sued Apple in the United States, arguing the iPhone-maker was getting a "free ride" on technologies patented by Nokia.
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