The GAO said that the White House has made slow progress in fully implementing a set of recommendations included in a cybersecurity review released by the Obama administration in May 2009. The GAO report says the White House has fully implemented only two of the 24 recommendations in the 2009 report, while 22 have been partially implemented.
Motorola said its cellphone business has filed complaints with U.S. courts and regulators accusing Apple of infringing 18 patents with its iPhone, iPad, iTouch and some of its computers. The complaints follow a Microsoft lawsuit against Motorola and are the latest in a flurry of suits involving Apple and mobile phone vendors including Nokia and HTC and mobile software provider Google.
Countries negotiating a treaty to fight global trade in pirated goods released the text of a 99-percent complete draft of the pact. "We are at the final stage -- about to cross the finishing line," said a European Union official close to the talks, who asked not to be named.
What was once "the Internet's first and only sex-positive URL shortener" is no more, thanks to a conflict with Libyan law. The Vb.ly service combined the initials of blogger and sex columnist Violet Blue and the .ly country-specific Internet domain associated with Libya.
Internet forumware giant vBulletin has sued three former employees, a day before they were due to launch a competing forum-software platform via their new company, the UK-based XenForo. The move has sparked page after page of complaints on the, well, forums run by both vBulletin and XenForo, and though XenForo has delayed the launch of its software, it indicates the launch will indeed go ahead.
BT is seeking a moratorium on legal applications to obtain details of its customers who are alleged to have illegally shared files online. The firm outlined its stance following a high-profile data breach at London law firm ACS:Law.
A security loophole in Twitter can give website developers easy access to users' private direct messages, messages that are exchanged between two people and not meant to be shared on Twitter or with anyone else, according to a report. Search engine and security specialist Gary-Adam Shannon writes on SearchEngineWatch.com that "worries" about such access "have been floating in the Twitter streams of late.
Facebook and Twitter social networking sites were used to tout stocks in a classic "pump and dump" fraud of about $7 million that was uncovered during a cocaine-trafficking probe, U.S. prosecutors said. Investigators discovered the fraud in a two-year probe of suspected trafficking by longshoremen and others of 1.3 tons of cocaine worth $34 million through the Port of New York and New Jersey officials said.
An examination by Reuters, including dozens of interviews with military officers, government officials and outside experts, shows that the U.S. military is preparing for digital combat even more extensively than has been made public. And how to keep the nation's lifeblood industries safe is a big, if controversial, aspect of it.
Google has made a sweeping request that a court throw out the copyright- and patent-infringement lawsuit filed in August by Oracle over Java use in Android, a popular, open-source mobile phone platform created by Google. In its response to the lawsuit, Google denies all seven patent-infringement charges, and, in a separate motion, requests that the single copyright-infringement claim be either dismissed or clarified because Google finds it "legally deficient."
The Commerce Department said that it is seeking comment on ways to protect copyrighted works on the Internet while still fostering technological innovation. The department's Internet Policy Task Force issued a notice of inquiry that seeks comment from a variety of stakeholders including copyright holders, technology companies, Internet service providers and Internet users.
Comcast, the biggest U.S. residential internet service provider, has begun offering all its subscribers a service that warns them when their PCs are infected with botnet software that steals banking passwords and carries out other nefarious deeds. Over the next few months, the Philadelphia-based internet provider will roll out the service to all 16 million of its subscribers.
A large number of applications that run on Apple's iOS collect serial numbers that uniquely identify the hardware device, according to a study that warns the practice could compromise users' privacy. Apple bills the UDID, or Unique Device Identifier, as a tool for developers to identify iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches when remotely storing application preferences, video game high scores, and similar types of data.
Apple is challenging a jury verdict that could force it to pay as much as $625.5 million to a company founded by David Gelernter, a Yale computer science professor, for infringing three patents related to how files are displayed on the iPod, the iPhone and Macintosh computers. A federal jury in Tyler, Texas, awarded the company, Mirror Worlds, $208.5 million in damages for each of the patents infringed.
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.
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