One of the latest scams floating around cyberspace is aimed at people who recently bought items at Apple's App Store. As described by security vendor F-Secure, scammers are sending out phony messages to users claiming that a recent order at Apple's App Store has been cancelled.
Apple promised an update for Mac OS X that will find and delete the MacDefender fake security software, and warn still-unaffected users when they download the bogus program. The announcement -- part of a new support document that the company posted -- was the company's first public recognition of the threat posed by what security experts call "scareware" or "rogueware."
Apple has reportedly acquired about 200 wireless patents from Freescale Semiconductor, according to a report. The blog Patently-O claims that Apple received an "assignment of assignors interest" to the patents, which would protect the company against others who might later claim rights to the patent under color of title.
A federal judge ordered Samsung to hand over several unreleased cell phones and tablets to Apple as part of the latter's lawsuit against Samsung claiming patent and trademark infringement. "Apple has demonstrated good cause for some, limited expedited discovery," said Judge Lucy Koh last Wednesday in a ruling for Apple in its request for samples of five Samsung products earlier than would normally be granted in such cases.
One of the key issues at stake at the e-G8 is the question of intellectual property online and its protection. France is famous for its Hadopi law — whereby online intellectual property thieves can have their Internet connections cut off after three warnings.
One in every 14 downloads is a piece of malware, according to information released by Microsoft last week. To try to inhibit the growth, antivirus defenses have to attack the problem from other directions.
An Illinois man admitted in federal court to helping large online poker websites dodge U.S. gambling laws by processing millions of dollars in payments from his home in Costa Rica and lying to banks about the nature of the transactions. So-called "payment processor" Bradley Franzen, 41, pled guilty in New York to criminal charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and being part of operating an illegal gambling business.
Falungong members are suing Cisco Systems for custom-building "Golden Shield" Internet technology used by China to track down devotees of the spiritual movement. Cisco dismissed the case as being without basis and vowed to "vigorously defend" itself.
Apple sent a letter to Lodsys and to developers, saying it has the licensing rights to in-app purchases and that developers are fully able to use them, according to Macworld. In the letter, Apple’s Senior Vice President & General Counsel Bruce Sewell acknowledges Lodsys CEO Mark Small's recent patent infringement claims against App Store developers, and states right up front that "Apple is undisputedly licensed to these patent and the Apple App Makers are protected by that license."
The Syrian government is cracking down on protesters’ use of social media and the Internet to promote their rebellion just three months after allowing citizens to have open access to Facebook and YouTube, according to Syrian activists and digital privacy experts. Security officials are moving on multiple fronts -- demanding dissidents turn over their Facebook passwords and switching off the 3G mobile network at times, sharply limiting the ability of dissidents to upload videos of protests to YouTube, according to several activists in Syria.
Google Inc. was warned repeatedly by a group of state regulators and industry watchdogs that many of the online drugstores advertising on its network were violating U.S. laws, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Federal prosecutors have been looking into whether Google employees knowingly accepted business from illegal drug sellers which, legal experts say, could open it up to allegations that it aided illegal online activity.
Lawyers representing a British soccer player have asked Twitter via a London court for information about the users of the website who published details of his private life. The unnamed professional player began proceedings at the High Court, accusing Twitter of releasing details that should have remained private under the terms of a court order.
Sony Corp. has been hacked again, exposing more security issues for the company less than a month after intruders stole personal information from more than 100 million online user accounts. A hacked page on a Sony website in Thailand directed users to a fake site posing as an Italian credit card company.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has called Apple out for not responding fast enough, or at all, to a developing legal situation that's got some iOS developers spooked. In a post on the group's blog, EFF staff attorney Julie Samuels said Apple has put developers in a difficult position by requiring them to use within their apps in-app purchase (IAP), a mechanism that's been targeted by a third-party group that says the technology infringes on its patents.
In an ongoing legal battle over its App Store trademark, Apple has hit back at Amazon.com, denying Amazon's claim that "App Store" is a generic term. In papers filed in federal court, Apple said it "denies that the mark APP STORE is generic and, on that basis, denies that the Amazon Appstore for Android service is an 'app store.'"
U.S. lawmakers, considering legislation aimed at protecting consumers’ online privacy, said the market for smartphone applications needs to be regulated to prevent the inappropriate sharing of user data. As mobile devices “become more powerful, more personal information is being concentrated in one place,” Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, said during a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing in Washington on mobile privacy.
A lawsuit filed against China's government and online search provider Baidu Inc. turned a spotlight on Chinese Internet censorship as Facebook Inc. considers entering the market. Eight New York residents filed suit alleging that China's government and Baidu violated the plaintiffs' U.S. constitutional rights by blocking pro-democracy speech from Baidu search results.
Staff investigators at the U.S. International Trade Commission sided with photography pioneer Eastman Kodak in its patent-infringement battle with smartphone giants Apple and Research in Motion. The third-party investigators at the federal agency, which oversees trade disputes, found that Apple and Canada-based RIM infringed an image-preview patent Kodak obtained in 2001.
A team of computer scientists at two University of California campuses sought a "choke point" that could greatly reduce the flow of spam. And in a paper to be presented at the annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, Calif., they will report that they think they have found it.
Facebook, the largest photo-sharing site on the Internet, said it has begun to use PhotoDNA to hunt for several thousand registered illegal images among the 200 million images uploaded by its users each day. Facebook will host an online event to explain the initiative, which follows its January move to join the center’s Amber Alert network.
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