The Canadian government said it is examining whether the country's laws governing foreign investment apply to Nortel Networks Corp.'s $4.5 billion sale of patents to a consortium of primarily foreign technology companies. Industry Minister Christian Paradis has asked his department to determine whether the transaction, announced last week and involving over 6,000 patents, is subject to review under the Investment Canada Act.
A coalition of copyright holders and ISPs like Comcast and Verizon have signed up for the "Copyright Alert System," which will provide notices to consumers if their ISP suspects there is illegal downloading going on. Many ISPs already provide warnings to users if sketchy behavior is detected, but the Copyright Alert System is intended to provide a standardized approach that all ISPs will use.
The Washington Post has alerted job seekers who use its employment pages of a data breach that compromised up to 1.27 million accounts. The publisher wrote on its website that the "Jobs" section was attacked by an "unauthorized third party" once on June 27 and once on June 28.
Officials at two national laboratories, and the private operator of one of them, were investigating a sophisticated cyberattack that forced them to shut down computer network services for several days. Officials at the laboratories say no classified information was compromised.
A man accused of hacking into AT&T servers and stealing personal data belonging to 120,000 Apple iPad users was indicted, two weeks after a co-defendant pleaded guilty. Andrew Auernheimer was charged by a Newark, New Jersey grand jury with one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computers and one count of identity theft, the office of U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in New Jersey said.
A U.S. judge denied Apple's attempt to quickly stop online retailer Amazon.com from using the "App Store" name, according to a court document. Apple, the maker of best-selling iPhones and iPad tablets, filed a trademark lawsuit saying that Amazon has improperly used Apple's App Store name to solicit software developers throughout the United States.
Hackers have disclosed a bug in software from Apple Inc. that security experts said could be exploited by criminals looking to gain remote control over iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. The security flaw in Apple's iOS operating system came to light as a website released code that Apple customers can use to modify the iOS operating system through a process known as "jail breaking."
Apple Inc. filed a U.S. trade complaint that seeks to block imports of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S mobile phone and Galaxy Tab computer, days after asking a federal court to halt sales of the devices. The complaint submitted with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington counters patent- infringement claims Samsung filed at the agency that seek to block imports of Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Cupertino, California-based Apple claims Samsung is infringing seven patents related to the technology and design of the devices.
Police in Italy and Switzerland searched more than 30 apartments as part of an investigation into online activist collective "Anonymous," amid a growing global law-enforcement crackdown on high-profile computer attacks by the group's followers. The move is the latest enforcement activity that now has netted more than 40 arrests of individuals allegedly linked Anonymous by authorities in the U.K, Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey since December.
Members of the European Parliament have demanded to know what lawmakers intend to do about the conflict between the European Union's Data Protection Directive and the U.S. Patriot Act. The issue has been raised following Microsoft's admission that it may have to hand over European customers' data on a new cloud service to U.S. authorities.
Lodsys, the group that's gone after both mobile-application developers and large companies in defense of patents it holds, filed a new patent infringement lawsuit aimed at The New York Times Co. and five others, all of which have previously taken legal action against it in separate court filings.
Hackers seized control of a PayPal Twitter feed for more than an hour, then sent out messages criticizing the payment processor in the second attack of its type in two days. The attackers sent out messages promoting paypalsucks.com, a site devoted to what it says is "exposing the nightmare of doing business 'the PayPal way.'"
In trying to unmask the identities of the members of a group known as Lulz Security, the A-Team was aiming to take them down a peg -- and, indirectly, to help law enforcement officials lock them up. The core members of Lulz Security “lack the skill to do anything more than go after the low-hanging fruit,” the A-Team sneered in its posting last month.
Google and Microsoft were sued for infringing a Louisiana company's patent with their map websites, which let users navigate street-level views of towns and cities. Transcenic Inc asked a Delaware District court to prevent Google and Microsoft from continuing to infringe its patent and asked the court to award it damages.
Hulu has temporarily suspended its Facebook Connect option after some users saw the profile photo and email address of other users when connecting their accounts. Hulu said the glitch was a coding error, not the result of a hack.
A consortium of eight companies launched a campaign to provide better training for law enforcement agencies in order to tackle cybercrime, which costs the U.K. economy tens of billions of pounds annually. The group, called the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA), represents private industry's response to cybercrime, which has exceeded the capacity of law enforcement to contain, said John Lyons, the organization's CEO.
Microsoft announced the fourth patent-licensing deal in two weeks with a maker of Android devices, announcements timed perhaps to suggest that it has some momentum for its claims that Google's mobile operating system violates Microsoft's patents. None of the deals, however, are with any of the biggest makers of Android devices.
An e-mail claiming to be an invite to Google's much ballyhooed answer to Facebook was making the rounds. But, turns out, it's just one more way to buy illicit Viagra on the Internet.
The Internet vigilante hacker group Anonymous claimed to have broken into an Apple server and published a small number of usernames and passwords for one of the U.S. technology company's websites. Anonymous said via its account on microblogging site Twitter that Apple could be a target for hackers and released the data as part of its Anti Security, or "AntiSec," campaign.
The Palm Beach County grandmother whose 14-year-old grandson set up her Wi-Fi system didn't have sophisticated online pornography downloads in mind. But that didn't stop her from being named in a lawsuit filed by an adult film studio, one that could cost her up to $150,000.
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