A virus has attacked the computer network of a job-development agency in the Commerce Department, forcing it to block employees from the Internet for nine days. The attack, discovered two weeks ago, targeted computers at the Economic Development Administration, which is responsible for making business-development grants to distressed communities to help them create jobs.
South Korean prosecutors indicted a social media and freedom-of-speech activist for reposting messages from the North Korean government’s Twitter account. Park Jung-geun, 23, a photographer who specialized in taking pictures of babies, was detained last month on charges of violating South Korea’s controversial National Security Law, which bans “acts that benefit the enemy” -- North Korea -- but does not clearly define what constitutes such acts.
A Paris court ordered Google France and its parent company Google to pay plaintiff Bottin Cartographes 500,000 euros (about $660,000) for providing its free mapping services to businesses across the country. The court also required Google to pay a 15,000 euro fine for its practice.
VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world's websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company. The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston, Virginia-based company, which is ultimately responsible for the integrity of Web addresses ending in .com, .net and .gov.
Three days before Super Bowl XLVI, federal prosecutors said they have seized 16 websites that illegally streamed live sports and pay-per-view events over the Internet, and charged a Michigan man with running nine of those websites. According to the government, the 16 websites provided links to give viewers easy access to other sites that hosted pirated telecasts from the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ("WWE") and TNA Impact Wrestling.
Lawyers for Facebook are looking for $84,000 in legal fees from a New York man after a judge ruled he caused delays in his lawsuit seeking part ownership in the social networking site. They also want a judge to freeze Paul Ceglia's legal case until the fees are paid.
Apple Inc. failed to get a preliminary ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus mobile phone from a German court. The Munich Regional Court rejected the motion, in a case where Apple invoked a patent granted last year protecting technology related to touch screens for tablets and smartphones.
Romanian authorities are investigating a 20-year-old who is suspected of hacking into several Pentagon and NASA servers and posting confidential data he retrieved from those servers on his blog, officials said. The suspect was identified as Razvan Manole Cernaianu, reportedly an information technology student known online as TinKode.
The websites of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and the former Soviet republic's interior ministry were put out of action as disgruntled Internet users hit back at the government after it shut down a popular file sharing site. Ukrainian police closed down Ex.ua, a website used by millions of Ukrainians to obtain movies, music and software for free.
Sweden’s Supreme Court announced it won’t agree to hear an appeal by The Pirate Bay’s founders, meaning the jail sentences and fines imposed by the Swedish Court of Appeals will stand. In other words, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström, who started file-sharing site The Pirate Bay in September 2003, face jail time and have to collectively pony up a fine of 46 million Swedish kronor (US$6.7 million).
Barnes & Noble Inc.’s claim that Microsoft Corp. is misusing patents to undermine competition from Google Inc.’s Android operating system was thrown out by a U.S. trade judge. U.S. International Trade Commission Judge Theodore Essex rejected Barnes & Noble’s arguments the patents should be held unenforceable, Microsoft Deputy General Counsel David Howard said in a statement.
A group of Internet hackers said it took down the website of Brazil's second largest private sector bank, one day after it did the same with the country's largest private bank. Banco Bradesco SA said in a statement that its site suffered "momentary interruptions," due to high traffic, but that it was never forced offline.
It should be no surprise that not long after Facebook rolled out its brand new Timeline function, an assortment of fraudulent pages started to pop up promising the ability to revert to the old profile. Many of the pages offer the same promise: a plug-in for your browser that will "disable" the new Timeline functionality.
Two British travelers were barred from entering the U.S. after posts on Twitter indicated they had plans to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe,' The Sun reports. Leigh Van Bryan, 26, and Emily Bunting 24, were detained upon arrival to Los Angeles after Homeland Security discovered the tweets.
The European Commission opened a new front in the global patent war between Samsung Electronics and rivals including Apple Inc. with a formal investigation into whether the South Korean technology giant's use of patents is breaking EU antitrust rules. The investigation is based on concerns that Samsung is using special patents, known as "standards-essential," to distort the market for mobile devices such as phones and tablets in Europe.
Samsung Electronics lost a bid to overturn a ruling barring its local unit from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablets in Germany, handing a symbolic legal victory to Apple Inc. in efforts to keep its lead spot in the tablet computer market. A higher regional court in Duesseldorf, Germany, said that Samsung may not sell the older version of its Galaxy tablet in Europe's biggest economy.
Planned changes to Google Inc.'s privacy policies that have caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its customers have over how data is collected and used, the company said in a blog post. Google, whose offerings include its flagship search engine, Gmail, YouTube and Google+ products, announced last week that it was unifying 60 of its privacy policies.
In response to a question during his first Google+ hangout with a handful of voters about whether the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act would levy "too much censorship on the Internet," President Obama stopped short of saying he opposes the legislation. "I think that it's going to be possible for us" to find a workable approach, Obama said during the event broadcast on YouTube, predicting that it's possible to protect Hollywood's interests without "affecting the fundamental integrity of the Internet as an open, transparent system."
Reps. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) wrote to Google CEO Larry Page and requested a briefing on the company's recent changes to its privacy policy. "As Google's announcement also states, 'this stuff matters,' and we agree: it matters deeply to both policymakers and consumers," the lawmakers wrote.
In a case that shines light on the world of professional cybersquatters, Verizon is suing a website and a domain name registrar that placed ads on hundreds of sites with Verizon-like names. In a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court, Verizon accuses “serial cybersquatters” Parked.com and registrar DNLtd of controlling more than 660 websites.
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