A hacker group that has claimed attacks on media and law enforcement affiliates extended its month-long cyber rampage, boasting that it had cracked the U.S. Senate's website. The group -- known as Lulz Security-- posted a configuration file for the Senate's main website on its homepage.
Apple filed a request to intervene in a patent lawsuit brought by Lodsys against seven small independent iOS application developers. Developers have sought Apple's formidable legal help and financial resources in the patent case after being confronted in letters from Lodsys in early May over alleged patent infringement for technology used to help customers make purchases inside iOS apps sold in the App Store.
A group of hackers tied to a series of security breaches on websites across the world said it attacked the Spanish police's main website in retaliation for the recent arrest of three alleged members of the group. In a statement sent to local media and posted on several websites, alleged representatives of the "Anonymous" group said they plan to keep the fight against Spain's "corrupt" state.
Looks like Apple finds itself in the middle of another trademark dispute over a recently revealed product. iCloud Communications, an Arizona-based computer communications company, filed suit against Apple for allegedly infringing on its trademark of the name iCloud.
The International Monetary Fund, still struggling to find a new leader after the arrest of its managing director last month in New York, was hit recently by what computer experts describe as a large and sophisticated cyberattack whose dimensions are still unknown. The fund, which manages financial crises around the world and is the repository of highly confidential information about the fiscal condition of many nations, told its staff and its board of directors about the attack, but it did not make a public announcement.
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks. The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype “Internet in a suitcase.”
In its latest hacktivist campaign, the Anonymous group has targeted a government site in Turkey over a proposed new Internet censorship plan.
A Southern California computer repairman suspected of installing spyware on laptops that enabled him to snap and download photographs of women showering and undressing in their homes was arrested at his home, police said. Police began investigating when a Fullerton resident complained about suspicious messages appearing on his daughter's computer last year.
A Salt Lake City-based company has filed suit against Google, arguing that it has the rights to the Chromium name, and by default, Chromebook and Chromebox. ISYS Technologies wants a Utah district court to stop Google -- as well as partners Acer, Amazon.com, Best Buy, and Samsung -- from marketing Chromebooks and from selling them later this month.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a $290 million judgment against Microsoft for patent infringement. The award is the largest ever upheld on appeal in a patent case. A small software company called i4i sued Microsoft in 2007, alleging that the industry giant had, without permission, used an editing tool patented by i4i -- specifically, that the program was used in Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007.
Major U.S. banks came under growing pressure from banking regulators to improve the security of customer account information after Citigroup Inc became the latest high-profile victim of a large-scale cyber attack. While Citigroup insisted the breach had been limited, experts called it the largest direct attack on a major U.S. financial institution, and forecast it could drive momentum for a systemic overhaul of the banking industry's data security measures.
Apple has just updated its App Store Review Guidelines, in which it now explicitly bans the implementation of driving under the influence (DUI) checkpoints in apps for iOS-based devices. Section 22.8 of the updated guidelines clearly states that "apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected."
Representatives of the music industry attacked ISPs at the World Copyright Summit in Brussels. Panelists strongly criticized ISPs for refusing to engage with rights owners and for continuing to claim that they are mere "conduits" in the digital marketplace.
Facebook Inc. will be probed by European Union data-protection regulators over a feature that uses face-recognition software to suggest people’s names to tag in pictures without their permission. A group of privacy watchdogs drawn from the EU’s 27 nations will study the measure for possible rule violations, said Gerard Lommel, a Luxembourg member of the so-called Article 29 Data Protection Working Party.
Services developed by Apple and Google for people to store photos, music and data online may do more to combat online piracy than regulation can, a U.S. official said. Victoria Espinel, the coordinator of U.S. intellectual property enforcement, said corporate innovation was often more effective than law enforcement or other rules, which are sometimes applied inappropriately.
A former student at a suburban Philadelphia high school has sued his school district for allegedly spying on him and his family using a school-issued Mac laptop, according to court documents. The Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, Pa. was first sued in February 2010 by another student using similar charges.
The FBI plans to step up its focus on fighting computer crime as it grapples with cyber intrusions at companies such as Google and Sony. “We will increasingly put emphasis on addressing cyber threats in all of their variations,” Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on extending his term.
A blogger sued for defamation over comments posted on an Internet message board is not entitled to the same protections as a journalist, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled. The court said that blogger Shellee Hale's criticism of a software company on a porn industry bulletin board was not covered by the New Jersey press shield law, which protects members of the news media from revealing their confidential sources.
According to the Guardian, 25 percent of all the hackers in the U.S. are actually informants for the federal government. The reason for that, the U.K. publication reports, citing Eric Corley, the publisher of hacker quarterly 2600, is that hackers have become quite easy to break when they're faced with threats of long prison sentences for their alleged crimes.
Nearly three months after RSA Security was breached by hackers, the company has announced it will replace the security tokens for nearly all of its SecurID customers. The move, announced in a letter to customers, comes after news that defense contractor Lockheed Martin was reportedly breached by hackers using duplicates of the SecurID keys that RSA had issued the contractor.
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