McDonald's Corp. says some of its customers' private information was exposed during a data breach. The company said Monday that a third party was able to get past security measures and see into a database of its customer information that included e-mail, phone numbers, addresses, birthdates and other specifics that they provided when signing up for online promotions or other subscriptions to its websites.
Dutch police arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion of joint responsibility for a cyber attack on the website of the public prosecution office. The so-called "denial of service" attack on the prosecution website came a day after Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old youth in connection with cyber attacks by WikiLeaks supporters.
The computer attacks against Visa Inc., PayPal and other companies that cut off ties with WikiLeaks are testing businesses' digital preparedness for what has become a high-stakes cyber war. The fact that financial companies like MasterCard and Visa have left part of their operations vulnerable raises questions of whether businesses are using every tool available to them to gird for attacks from a more-sophisticated cyber army.
Google DoubleClick was recently caught accidentally serving a malicious banner ad, underscoring the threat of malware-laced advertisements on the Web. Researchers at Armorize Technologies discovered recently that Google's DoubleClick was serving a banner ad laced with malware.
Oracle Corp. is seeking another $211 million from SAP AG on top of the $1.3 billion jury verdict it won after a widely watched copyright infringement trial. Oracle wants an additional $211,662,935 in "prejudgment interest" due to the company, according to a court document it filed.
Lawyers representing independent filmmakers, including the studio that produced Oscar-winner "The Hurt Locker," might learn something from a document filed with the U.S. Department of Commerce by music, television, and film industry trade groups. "The role of lawsuits in solving the online theft problem is clearly limited," wrote the coalition that included the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).
Cyber activists attacking organizations seen as foes of WikiLeaks briefly blocked a Dutch prosecution website after a 16-year-old suspected of involvement in the campaign was arrested in the country. The activists also tried to block the website of online payment firm Moneybookers, but denied their attacks were intended to create business turmoil or badly disrupt online Christmas shopping.
The Federal Communications Commission announced that it plans to hold a forum at a high school in Washington to address risks associated with heavy technology use among young people. The forum will include panels and conversations with experts about how parents can help young people find balance in their digital diets.
Internet regulatory body ICANN postponed approval of a mechanism to let groups apply for and manage new Internet domain extensions called generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), such as the existing .com and .net. More time is needed to work through some remaining issues, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board said in a resolution approved at a meeting in Cartagena, Colombia.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal issued the equivalent of a subpoena, demanding access to personal data improperly collected by Google Inc. for its Street View mapping service. Blumenthal said in a statement that his office has issued a civil investigative demand in cooperation with the Department of Consumer Protection, as a result of Google's refusal to provide access to e-mails and other data that the company has said was collected inadvertently.
A plan to give wireless networks more flexibility than their landline counterparts in proposed Internet rules is being questioned by Federal Communications Commission member Mignon Clyburn. In remarks prepared for a conference, Clyburn said it was essential that wireless networks "grow in an open way just as our wired ones have."
The author of a WikiLeaks-related e-book has removed the publication from Amazon amidst a controversy surrounding its sale. "We did not remove the title, and are verifying that it was removed from sale by the author," an Amazon spokesman said via e-mail.
Dutch authorities said that they have arrested a 16-year old hacker involved in the pro-WikiLeaks attacks on the Web sites of MasterCard and PayPal. The Dutch National Prosecutors Office said that the teen, who was not named, was arrested by a high-tech crime team.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, famously portrayed by Armie Hammer in The Social Network, aren't finished with their legal action against Facebook. The 29-year-old twins, seemingly unsatisfied with their $65 million they won in 2008, are embroiled in ongoing litigation against Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming that they were lied to about the company's value, according to recently leaked court documents.
Targeting Amazon and its retail partners, cybercriminals are using a phony Amazon receipt generator to print bogus receipts, and then are asking for refunds from the retailer, claiming that the items they ordered were never received.
Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC filed its second copyright infringement lawsuit over Denver Post material, this time suing a big target: Drudge Report operator Matt Drudge. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for Nevada, charges a Nov. 18 Denver Post "illustration" called "Transportation Security Administration agents perform enhanced pat-downs" was posted without authorization the same day on the Drudge Report website as well as the drudgereportarchives.com site.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) hasn't folded yet in his effort to make Internet poker legal, Reid spokesman Tom Brede tells Washington Wire. Mr. Brede said in an e-mail that Mr. Reid is "still working on" passing the online poker bill.
A senior Department of Homeland Security official said that the U.S. government is seeing a rise in cyber attacks aimed at taking over control systems that operate critical infrastructure, such as industrial facilities and pipelines. Greg Schaffer, assistant secretary for the DHS Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, said the government is tracking more and more cyber attacks that have a greater level of sophistication and are tailored to target specific types of industrial infrastructure, such as power grids.
The explosion of blogging, tweeting and other online diversions has reached into U.S. jury boxes, raising serious questions about juror impartiality and the ability of judges to control courtrooms. A Reuters Legal analysis found that jurors' forays on the Internet have resulted in dozens of mistrials, appeals and overturned verdicts in the last two years.
Customs officials in Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city just across the border from Hong Kong, recently caught 14 housewives trying to carry 88 iPads and 340 mobile phones into China, in a bust worth 950,000 yuan, or roughly $143,000, the Guangzhou Daily reported. One woman had 65 mobile phones strapped around her waist and over 20 more in a handbag, according to the newspaper.
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