The designers of Stuxnet, the computer worm that was used to vandalize an Iranian nuclear site, may have struck again, security researchers say. Stuxnet, which infected tens of thousands of computers in 155 countries last year, created an international sensation when experts reported that it was designed as an American-Israeli project to sabotage Siemens Corporation computers used in uranium enrichment at the Natanz site.
Law firms in the United States and Canada are exploring possible consumer lawsuits against Research In Motion Ltd for last week's BlackBerry outages, which for three days crippled email and messaging for tens of millions of users around the world. Consumer lawyers say they are looking at whether customers have common claims against the BlackBerry manufacturer and might be able to band together in a single lawsuit.
The majority of people on Facebook have modified their privacy settings, Facebook's Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor told the audience at San Francisco's Web 2.0 Summit. That's a big increase from the old stat that Facebook used to trot out that only 15% to 20% of its users had modified their settings.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is heading to court to testify in an anti-trust lawsuit filed by Novell, a creator of network operating systems. Novell claims Microsoft purposely shut it out of the marketplace.
The more you use Facebook, the less likely you are to be concerned about privacy invasion. That's the core finding of a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll telephone survey last week of more than 2,000 adults.
The United States is still crafting a legal framework to guide any offensive moves in cyberspace, months after the Pentagon unveiled a broad cyber strategy, the head of the military command responsible for such operations said. Deliberations on military doctrine and legal framework are "ongoing," Air Force General Robert Kehler, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, told a defense writers' group.
A judge's order dismissing an infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.'s YouTube last year should be overturned because it endangers the rights of owners of television shows and other copyrighted materials, a lawyer for Viacom Inc. said. Viacom is seeking to revive its lawsuit against YouTube over alleged unauthorized posting of Viacom content on the video-sharing site between 2005 and 2008.
An actress is suing Amazon.com in federal court in Seattle for more than $1 million for revealing her age on its Internet Movie Database website and refusing to remove the reference when asked. The actress is not named in the lawsuit that refers to her as Jane Doe.
The YouTube channel for "Sesame Street" is back online after hackers forced its shutdown for a day by loading X-rated material. "Sesame Street" executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente said that YouTube had taken the channel down after noticing the racy material.
An accused member of the clandestine hacking group LulzSec pleaded not guilty to charges of taking part in an extensive computer breach of the Sony Pictures Entertainment film studio. Cody Kretsinger, 23, entered not guilty pleas to one count each of conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer during a brief hearing in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
The New York man who is suing Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, for half ownership of the social-networking giant, instructed his lawyer not to comply with a court order to turn over evidence in the case, according to court filings. Facebook filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Buffalo, N.Y., to compel Paul Ceglia to comply with an August 18 order to turn over e-mail accounts and passwords.
Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare: a cyberoffensive to disrupt and even disable the Qaddafi government’s air-defense system, which threatened allied warplanes. While the exact techniques under consideration remain classified, the goal would have been to break through the firewalls of the Libyan government’s computer networks to sever military communications links and prevent the early-warning radars from gathering information and relaying it to missile batteries aiming at NATO warplanes.
Taiwan's HTC Corp lost a patent infringement complaint filed against Apple Inc in a preliminary decision at the U.S. International Trade Commission. An ITC administrative law judge found "no violation" by Apple of four HTC patents that include technologies for power management and phone dialing.
Hackers appeared to have commandeered the YouTube page of the venerable "Sesame Street" children's show, reprogramming the page with content brought to you by the letter "X." The show page was taken offline, and visitors were greeted with a message from the video website informing them it had been shut down "due to repeated or severe violations of our community guidelines."
An Australian court knocked back attempts by Apple Inc. to extend an injunction against a Samsung Electronics Co. tablet computer, which the Cupertino, Calif., company alleges infringes patents held for its rival iPad device. Justice Annabelle Bennett rejected applications from Apple's lawyers to modify the text of the judgment, such that Samsung would have to give the company advance notice of new product releases and be restricted in its launch of all new tablet computers.
A group that calls itself the Chaos Computer Club prompted a public outcry here recently when it discovered that German state investigators were using spying software capable of turning a computer’s webcam and microphone into a sophisticated surveillance device. The public condemnation was swift and strong, renewing a national debate into how far the government can intrude into digital privacy.
Congress is trying to wrap its collective head around Amazon's new Silk Web browser. At a privacy hearing, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) expressed outrage at the way Silk's "split" design can funnel all user browsing data through Amazon's backend servers.
A Dutch court turned down Samsung Electronics' request for an injunction against all of Apple's mobile products that use 3G telecommunications technology, denying it revenge over a similar move by Apple. It also rejected Apple's counterclaims in the case.
Officials in a New Jersey school district are investigating claims that a high school teacher who advises a prayer group posted remarks on her Facebook page that described homosexuality as "perverted" and said it "breeds like cancer." Attorney John Paragano saw posts by teacher Viki Knox before they were removed and alerted the Union Township school district, he told The Star-Ledger of Newark.
Concerns that combat drone aircraft were compromised by a computer virus were dismissed by the U.S. Air Force. In a rare disclosure, the Air Force revealed that computer systems involved in its ongoing drone program were infected with a virus, but it did not hinder flight operations in any way.
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