The personal information of about 35 million Internet users in South Korea was stolen in an alleged hacking attack that originated in China, officials said. Hackers purportedly attacked popular Internet and social media sites Nate and Cyworld earlier this week, stealing data such as social security numbers and email addresses, the Korea Communications Commission said in a statement.
A fugitive from upstate New York who taunted authorities on his Facebook page has been arrested. The Daily News says U.S. marshals and NYPD detectives tracked him down to an apartment in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, sitting at his computer with his Facebook page open.
The Senate's antitrust panel has scheduled its hearing on Google's use of its considerable market clout for mid-September, the Senate Judiciary Committee said in a brief statement. The Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee will meet on Sept. 21 for a hearing titled: "The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?"
Internet providers will be forced to keep logs of their customers' activities for one year in case police want to review them in the future, according to legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved. The 19 to 10 vote represents a victory for conservative Republicans, who made data retention their first major technology initiative after last fall's elections, and the Justice Department officials who have quietly lobbied for the sweeping new requirements.
The operator of the Nasdaq Stock Market is "under constant attack" from would-be hackers and will spend more on security as a result, its top executive said. "As we sit here, there are people trying to slam into our system every day," Robert Greifeld, chief executive officer of Nasdaq OMX Group, said in an interview.
U.S. users aren’t the only ones up in arms over Google+’s account name policy. The Register reports that the UK Information Commissioner’s Office will be “looking into” the anti-anonymity terms of service Google has recently enacted.
Russia's fast-growing Internet has been hit with its first big brouhaha over privacy, as a wave of sensitive data -- such as text messages, government documents and sales receipts from online sex shops -- have been turning up in Web searches. Regulators have opened a series of probes into how certain information was able to leak out. Internet search companies, meanwhile, are scrambling to teach Russian businesses the basics of Internet security.
British police announced the arrest of a 19-year-old man who they said was the spokesman of the online vigilante group Lulz Security, which has claimed responsibility for a string of attacks on the Web sites of government agencies and private corporations. In a statement, the police said the man used the online alias Topiary and was picked up during a raid on a residence in the Shetland Islands, the rugged archipelago off the northeastern coast of Scotland.
The U.S. International Trade Commission released details of an earlier ruling against Apple Inc.that said some of the consumer electronics giant's products had violated patents owned by a company being acquired by a competitor. The ruling said Apple's computers violated two patents owned by S3 Graphics Co., which is being acquired by handset maker HTC Corp. The ruling said Apple had not violated S3's patents in its mobile products, the popular iPhone and iPad devices.
Activist investor Carl Icahn urged Motorola to consider splitting off its patent portfolio to cash in on surging interest in wireless technology from companies like Google Inc and Apple Inc. Icahn, Motorola's biggest shareholder with an 11.36 percent stake, told Reuters there are many ways the company could make more money out of its patents while still retaining support for its cellphone and set-top box businesses.
The federal government has put Google, Microsoft, Apple and other technology companies on notice: Give consumers a way prevent advertisers from tracking their movements across the Web — or face regulation. Yet for all its innovative know-how and entrepreneurial spirit, the technology industry has yet to agree on a simple, meaningful solution to protect consumer privacy on the Internet.
A new coalition launched with the goal of persuading lawmakers to set up a regulatory regime that would allow Americans to legally place bets on online poker games. The FairPlayUSA coalition has attracted some high-profile advisers including former Homeland Security and ex-Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, R-Pa., to push Congress to fully legalize online poker and to clarify the nation's online gambling laws to more clearly define what is legal and what is not.
Facebook has made it easier for users to opt out of its controversial facial-recognition technology for photographs, an effort to address concerns that it had violated consumers' privacy. The deployment of "Tag Suggestions" technology -- designed to speed up the process of labeling friends in photos -- had renewed concerns about how the world's largest social network with 750 million members handles privacy.
New regulations that require Chinese bars, restaurants, hotels and bookstores to install costly Web monitoring software are prompting many businesses to cut Internet access and sending a chill through the capital’s game-playing, Web-grazing literati who have come to expect free Wi-Fi with their lattes and green tea. The software, which costs businesses about $3,100, provides public security officials the identities of those logging on to the wireless service of a restaurant, cafe or private school and monitors their Web activity.
The FBI’s arrests of 14 people last week were the most ambitious crackdown yet on a loose-knit group of hackers called Anonymous that has attacked a string of government agencies and private companies over the last eight months. But at least some of the suspects are not your typical hard-core hackers, judging from interviews with two of them and the online traces of others.
Customers at an apparent Apple Store in the Chinese city of Kunming berated staff and demanded refunds after the shop was revealed to be an elaborate fake, sparking a media and Internet frenzy. Long a target of counterfeiters and unauthorized resellers, Apple was alerted to the near flawless fake shop by an American blogger living in the southwestern city, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest genuine Apple stores in Beijing and Shanghai.
Chinese officials in Kunming have ordered two fake Apple shops to close, not because of piracy or copyright concerns, but because the stores in the southwestern city did not have an official business permit. Five self-branded "Apple Stores" were found to be selling Apple products without authorization from the California-based company but only two were told to shut, officials said.
Hacking group Anonymous said it took confidential documents from Italy's cyber crime agency, and has begun posting what will total more than 8 gigabytes of data from the organization, which was involved in the arrest of some Anonymous members in that country earlier this month.
Google's Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world, a practice that raises novel privacy concerns, CNET has confirmed. The cars were supposed to collect the locations of Wi-Fi access points.
The head of a U.S. agency that helps respond to cyber attacks resigned suddenly after several high-profile attacks on government computer systems but the Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on the reason. Randy Vickers resigned as director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, according to an email from Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary for cyber security and communications at Homeland Security, which was sent to some employees.
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