National prosecutors released some details about four Dutch citizens arrested on suspicion of involvement in cyberattacks as part of an international sweep targeting hackers. U.S. authorities announced 14 arrests late Tuesday in connection with the loosely organized hacking group Anonymous’s December attacks on Internet payment service PayPal.
Fake Apple stores are on the rise, says BirdAbroad blogger, a 27-year-old American woman currently living in Kunming, China. She writes about a recent "Apple" discovery: "When we strolled down a street a few blocks from our house a couple weeks ago, I was only sort of surprised to see this new place, one that any American of my generation can probably recognize instantaneously: It's an Apple store! Or is it?"
Adobe Systems and EchoSign, the electronic signatures company it acquired, were sued by RPost, another electronic signature services company, for alleged infringement of five of its patents relating to electronic signature services. RPost, which said it was in discussions with Adobe before its acquisition of EchoSign, for "a collaborative product alliance," has asked the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division to issue an injunction against Adobe to prevent further damages.
Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist, has been indicted in Boston on charges that he stole more than four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers. Mr. Swartz, a well-known figure in Internet academic circles, created a site called Infogami that later merged with the social news site Reddit.
A New Mexico man has been charged with stealing confidential business documents from AT&T Inc.'s servers, documents which were later posted on the Internet by a computer hacking group, prosecutors said. Federal prosecutors in Newark, N.J., alleged that Lance Moore, while working for a company that contracts with AT&T, improperly accessed AT&T's servers in April and downloaded "thousands of spreadsheets" and other confidential AT&T documents, including details for AT&T's plans for its 4G data network and its Long Term Evolution mobile broadband network.
The FBI has conducted more than a dozen raids and made more than a dozen arrests across the United States in connection with the Anonymous computer hacking investigation, U.S. government officials tells CBS News. The officials described the sweep as a "major" law enforcement operation and say there have been 14 arrests nationwide.
Google Inc. and a group of publishers and authors got more time to negotiate a possible settlement of a lawsuit over the search-engine company’s digital reproduction of books. “We are not there yet,” Michael Boni, a lawyer for the authors, told U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan. “They are very complicated, complex issues, requiring us to delve into them in the dog days of summer.”
Individuals associated with hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec said the hack of The Sun newspaper Web site also resulted in the collection of emails and passwords from that publication and the now-defunct News of the World. "Sun/News of the world OWNED. We're sitting on their emails," a hacker known as Sabu tweeted.
Baidu, the dominant Chinese Internet search engine, announced a major licensing deal with three of the world’s largest music companies that would allow Chinese Web users to legally download and stream hundreds of thousands of songs free. The agreement between Baidu and One-Stop China, a joint venture between the Universal Music Group, the Warner Music Group and Sony BMG, will shut down access to a vast amount of pirated music and promises to broadly reshape the way China’s 450 million Web users gain access to online music.
The International Trade Commission upheld a decision by one of its judges that Eastman Kodak did not infringe Apple Inc patents for digital cameras. Apple had filed a complaint with the ITC in May 2010, accusing Kodak of infringing patents for making digital cameras and related software.
The LulzSec hacker group has turned its sights on Rupert Murdoch's U.K. newspaper The Sun, hacking the site to direct visitors to a fake article claiming the media mogul had died and releasing information on journalists.
William Shatner's Google+ account was temporarily removed, the "Star Trek" actor tweeted. It's unclear why Shatner's account was taken down, but it could be because Google doubted the authenticity of the account.
Google Inc. is putting back Belgian newspaper content onto its search engine, Bill Echikson, a Google spokesman said in an interview. He said an agreement has been reached with copyright- management group Copiepresse to allow the papers to show up in search results without the risk of a penalty to Google.
Connecticut law-enforcement officials are looking into whether online deals site Groupon Inc. is breaking consumer-protection laws that prohibit gift cards from expiring. According to Jeremy Pearlman, one of two assistant attorneys general handling the investigation for George Jepsen, attorney general for the state of Connecticut, the state is looking into whether Groupon's deals -- known as groupons -- should be considered in the same light as gift certificates, for which Connecticut law bans expiration dates altogether.
U.S. and Romanian police have arrested more than 100 people in a year-long effort to stop Internet fraud schemes that have cost Americans more than $100 million, the U.S. Justice Department said. Romanian police carried out 117 raids, the Justice Department said.
Apple scored a legal victory when the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that HTC had violated two of its patents. The ITC judge's initial determination was that HTC infringed on two of the 10 patents Apple had filed a complaint over, according to an HTC statement.
Amazon.com, the world's largest on-line retailer, will learn soon if a proposed measure to roll back a new California law taxing sales over the Internet moves on to its next step in seeking a place on the state's ballot. California's attorney general is reviewing initial paperwork on the measure and will decide whether it may move forward, a spokeswoman said.
Lady Gaga's YouTube account was suspended. The notice read that the suspension was due to "multiple or severe violations of YouTube's copyright policy."
France's High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights on the Internet (Hadopi) has prosecuted no one for illegal file sharing in the nine months since it began operating under a so-called "three strikes" copyright enforcement law. In that time, the authority has received over 18 million reports from rights holders of unauthorized file-sharing of copyright works, each one identifying the copyright work downloaded and the IP address alleged to have downloaded it, it announced.
The Pentagon has rolled out a strategy for strengthening U.S. cyber capabilities and addressing threats and attacks in cyberspace. "In the 21st Century, bits and bytes can be as threatening as bullets and bombs," Deputy Defence Secretary William Lynn said, unveiling the plan.
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