Trapster is telling registered users to change their passwords due to an attack. Trapster.com, creator of a popular mobile application that warns users about speed traps, notified users that their passwords may have been exposed due to an attack.
Verizon Communications has fired the first shot in the legal war to dismantle the Federal Communications Commission's new Net neutrality rules. The phone company filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging the FCC's Report and Order on rules dealing with the issue of Net neutrality.
As part of Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to Washington, the White House said that China has agreed to boost its efforts to promote the use of legal U.S. software by Chinese government agencies and the private sector in China. China has agreed to allocate government funding for the purchase of legal software, audit the use of legal software and publish the results of those audits, and also encourage private companies and state-owned enterprises to use legal software, according to a fact sheet released by the White House.
An online group implicated in the theft of 100,000 e-mail addresses of Apple iPad users says two of its members arrested did nothing wrong. Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer face counts of fraud and conspiracy to access a computer without authorization.
Spam, phishing and malware attacks on social-networking sites in 2010 were double in number from the year before, according to a new review of cyberthreats. Sophos’ Security Threat Report 2011 explains that the rapid growth of social-networking sites -- most prominently Facebook -- has made them sitting targets for attackers.
The new Congress has only just started, but its Internet and technology agenda is quickly filling up. Top on the list for Republicans will be efforts to undo the Federal Communication Commission's late-December "Open Internet" Order. After that, expect bipartisan action on efforts to slake the voracious appetite for wireless spectrum of mobile Internet users and possible reform of the $8 billion Universal Service Fund.
The head of the Homeland Security Department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency defended his agency's aggressive efforts to combat online piracy and counterfeiting by seizing Internet domain names. During a speech at the annual State of the Net conference, ICE Director John Morton defended the agency's "Operation In Our Sites" actions that involved the issuance of warrants in June to seize nine Internet domain names engaged in piracy of copyrighted content.
Two men described as "Internet trolls" have been charged with allegedly hacking AT&T's servers to obtain the information of 120,000 iPad users, including some boldface names like Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama's former chief of staff. The hack attack occurred during the initial release of Apple's tablet computer, court documents state.
Facebook is temporarily putting the kibosh on a new tweak that gave apps the ability to capture someone's cell number and address. The new change expanded on the information already available to third-party app developers based on a user's permissions.
A prominent Republican politician laid out a new conservative manifesto: How not to regulate the Internet. "We must defend against Washington's instinct to hyper-regulate all that is new and imperfectly understood," Rep. Marsha Blackburn said at the State of the Net conference.
The Italian antitrust authority said that it had ended an investigation into Google’s Internet news service after the company took steps to ease newspaper publishers’ concerns about control over their content and the sharing of advertising revenue. The Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers had complained to the regulator in 2009 about Google News, contending that its members were unable to remove articles from the service without pulling them out of Google’s main search engine, a move that would cost them advertising revenue.
A legal case pitting Internet search giant Google Inc. against Spain's privacy laws will be heard by a Spanish court, a Google spokeswoman said. The case, a significant test of tightening privacy laws in the developed world, stems from a 2008 Google challenge to Spain's Agency of Data Protection, a government organization that deals with complaints from citizens over the handling of their personal data on the Internet.
A tweak to Facebook's permissions and privacy settings means third-party developers can now access your home address and phone number, warned security firm Sophos. Facebookers now expressly grant third-party apps like Farmville and sites the right to see your address and phone number via the standard permissions dialogue -- although the social network maintained that the new changes would not provide access to the data of a user’s friends.
A proposed U.S. Internet "kill switch" to be used in the event of a cyberwar could actually cause more problems than it would prevent, a new report commissioned by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has argued. The report for the OECD by the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford looked at the potential of cyber-events to cause major disruption and found a tendency to exaggerated language, an over-reliance on military concepts of war and defence and plenty of confused thinking.
Research In Motion Ltd. is committed to Indonesia and will comply with the government’s request that it block pornographic websites on its BlackBerry browsers, RIM Southeast Asia Managing Director Gregory Wade said. Wade and other executives from Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM met with government officials in Jakarta to discuss the request, after Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring said RIM has until Jan. 21 to begin filtering porn sites or face legal action including revocation of its license to operate in the country.
Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC is now suing individual message-board posters, not just website operators. Righthaven, which files copyright infringement lawsuits over unapproved online postings of material from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post, filed seven infringement lawsuits in U.S. District Court for Nevada, lifting its lawsuit total since March to at least 203.
Intel has reached a settlement with WiLAN over lawsuits alleging the chipmaker infringed on a string of wireless and Internet patents, sending WiLAN's shares surging. WiLAN said the deal would not lessen its resolve to go after Intel's co-defendants, including Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
Microsoft scored a notable victory in the war on so-called cybersquatters when Seattle federal district court judge Ricardo Martinez issued a 9-page opinion allowing Microsoft to proceed with what he called "a novel cause of action for contributory cybersquatting." Microsoft argued in an amended complaint that Digispace and yMultimedia "actively and intentionally induced others" to infringe and cybersquat on Microsoft trademarks by providing instruction on how to do so, purportedly as a way for squatters increase traffic to their own sites.
Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., plans to pick up where he and former Rep.Rick Boucher, D-Va., left off in the last Congress in trying to craft an online privacy bill. Stearns is reworking the draft bill he helped develop with Boucher, who was defeated in November, to address concerns raised about the measure in comments provided to the lawmakers last year.
A hacker sued by Sony for circumventing the PlayStation 3's protections against pirated software is claiming he had the right to alter the video-game console he had purchased legally. George Hotz, best known for hacking the Apple iPhone in 2007, was named as a defendant with two other hackers and 100 "John Does" in a complaint Sony filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
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