The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is investigating a sophisticated phishing attack that forced it to shut down email and Internet access. The lab -- which houses some of the world's most powerful supercomputers and stores classified government data -- was hit with a phishing attack on April 7 that was designed specifically to remove information from the network.
U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. settled a copyright infringement dispute with a Chinese department store, the industry group Business Software Alliance said. Fujian Dongbai Group Co. promised to actively use genuine Microsoft software and pay a total of 900,000 yuan (about $138,100) to Microsoft, as part of a legalization and compensation deal, BSA said in a statement.
Social media websites such as Foursquare, HootSuite and Reddit crashed temporarily because of problems at Amazon Web Services' data center. Officials at Amazon were unavailable for comment on the server problems, but a status update page on its Web Services site said the problems began early in the morning at a server bank in northern Virgina.
Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.), who chairs a new privacy panel set up in February, asked Apple to explain why its iPhones are tracking users' locations. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is also reportedly looking into the matter, while a Congressman from Washington State has followed Franken's lead, promising to ask questions of his own.
A hidden file on the Apple iPhone 4 and iPad 3G has been found to store location information. This privacy glitch was discovered by two programmers, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, who presented their findings at the location-centric O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
The Department of Justice outlined steps that CPTN Holdings LLC has agreed to take in order to acquire some patents and patent applications from Novell Inc., which is in the process of being bought by a trio of private-equity firms operating as Attachmate Corp. The Justice Department said that in order to address antitrust concerns, CPTN -- a holding company owned by Microsoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Apple Inc. and EMC Corp. -- revised its agreements to buy the patents in several ways.
A U.S. appeals court agreed that Dish Network Corp. is violating a judge's order to shut down parts of a digital-video-recording service that infringe a TiVo patent. The ruling affects Dish's older DVRs and leaves open the question of whether software on newer models was changed enough to get around TiVo's patent for the "time warp" technology that simultaneously records and plays back television programs.
Facebook is still trying to find a path to Washington, where the company has only a fledgling lobbying operation, even though it finds its privacy policies under increasing scrutiny and is trying to navigate a politically sensitive expansion into China. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal about its approach abroad, Facebook officials in Washington suggested the company might be willing to play by China's rules -- a stance that could raise hackles in Congress.
For the past four years, the foreign companies that control the global Internet poker industry have helped bankroll an elaborate lobbying campaign in Washington, seeking to keep the United States from shutting their American operations down. For the past four years, the foreign companies that control the global Internet poker industry have helped bankroll an elaborate lobbying campaign here, seeking to keep the United States from shutting their American operations down.
A federal judge was asked by Apple Inc. to dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit claiming the company limited choice by linking iPod music downloading to its iTunes music store. Robert Mittelstaedt, an attorney for the Cupertino, California-based company, told U.S. District Judge James Ware in San Jose, California, that blocking iPod music downloads that used competitors’ software was intended to improve downloading quality for iTunes customers.
Iran is the worst country in the world -- at least when it comes to web freedom, claims a new report. Among the reports eye-opening findings: The number of Internet users has doubled over the past five years, and governments worldwide are trying to find ways to control the heightened online activity -- sometimes relying on extreme measures to send a message.
Samsung Electronics said it would take counter-action against Apple after the U.S. firm filed suit alleging that the South Korean giant copied its smartphones and tablet computers. Apple's lawsuit claims Samsung's mobile phones and Galaxy Tab imitated the iPhone and the iPad.
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure companies are on the rise, with a jump in extortion attempts and malware designed to sabotage systems, like Stuxnet, according to a new report. While attacks are increasing, many companies aren't doing enough to protect their systems and are instead rushing to adopt new technologies -- such as Smart Grid -- without ensuring they adequately secure against cyber attacks, concludes "In the Dark: Crucial Industries Confront Cyberattacks."
Apple Inc. sued Samsung Electronics Co. claiming the South Korean electronics giant copied the look and feel of its popular iPhone smartphones and iPad tablet computers. The lawsuit, filed on April 15 in the Northern District of California, alleged that Samsung's smartphones, such as the "Galaxy S 4G," "Epic 4G," "Nexus S" and its "Galaxy Tab" touchscreen tablet, violated Apple's intellectual property.
The European Commission is planning to investigate whether European mobile operators are managing wireless Internet traffic to discriminate against competitors or consumers who use data-intensive services. Neelie Kroes, the European Union's telecommunications commissioner, will ask an advisory panel of national regulators to examine whether mobile operators are upholding the principle of network neutrality, which calls for all data traffic to be treated equally.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are seeking review of an April 11 court ruling they lost enforcing a $65 million settlement with Facebook Inc. over their claims that company founder Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for the social networking site. A three-judge appeals court panel in San Francisco erred when it rejected the Winklevoss brothers’ claims that the 2008 settlement should be voided because it was procured with fraud, the twins’ attorney said in a court filing.
U.S. Supreme Court justices debated making it easier to challenge some patents, reviewing a case that led to changes in Microsoft Corp.'s Word software and may force the company to pay a $300 million award. Microsoft urged the justices in a one-hour hearing in Washington to overturn a jury verdict won by closely held I4i LP, which sued the larger company for patent infringement.
Security firm Sophos has published an open letter to Facebook about its security and privacy measures on the popular social networking site, and the message is clear: It's time for some changes in order to better protect users. In its Naked Security blog, Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley tells Facebook that protecting users is easily accomplished with three changes.
Match.com says it will begin cross-referencing members against the National Sex Offender Registry after a lawsuit filed in California, in which a woman claims she was raped by a convicted offender she met on the dating website. Mandy Ginsberg, president of Match.com, U.S., said in a statement that "improved technology and an improved database now enables a sufficient degree of accuracy to move forward" with an initiative it had previously discounted because of the background checks' "historical unreliability."
A father of two girls in Pennsylvania is taking Apple to court for allegedly banking millions of dollars from unauthorized in-app purchases. Garen Meguerian of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, claims that the company's old approach to in-app purchases on iOS devices allowed his 9-year-old daughter to purchase roughly $200 in virtual goods without permission.
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