Republican critics of a Senate cybersecurity bill want to slow down consideration of the measure, saying it could give government too much power over private-sector infrastructure companies. A group of senators introduced a comprehensive bill that requires the secretary of homeland security to designate certain infrastructure like air traffic control as critical and compel steps to defend against hackers.
Last year, the District of Columbia seemed to hold all the aces in the high-stakes race among states to offer Internet gambling. Its program, iGaming, was on track to be the first one in the country, and it promised revenue for the district from Texas hold ’em poker, blackjack and bingo. Instead, the Council of the District of Columbia has repealed iGaming over criticism that it had been approved without sufficient public comment or scrutiny.
A social network cannot be required to install an anti-piracy filtering system, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. Belgian music royalty collecting firm SABAM wanted the social network Netlog to stop users infringing copyright.
Two companies running premium-rate phone competitions on "typosquatted" sites have been fined £100,000. Premium-rate phone regulator PhonepayPlus said Amsterdam-based R&D Media Europe and Una Valley BV used typosquatted sites. The regulator said consumers were "misled" and additionally ordered the fined companies to refund callers.
Apple has asked a bankruptcy court for permission to sue Eastman Kodak, accusing it of infringing its patents. In a court filing in New York federal bankruptcy court, Apple said it wanted to file a complaint against Kodak at the International Trade Commission.
Shortly after two U.S. Congressmen asked Apple to answer questions about iPhone and iPad apps that snatch users' contact lists without permission, the Cupertino, Calif. company promised it will address the issue with a future software update. Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking him about iOS apps that have harvested users' address book information without permission.
A debt-laden Chinese technology firm seeking to ban all shipments of Apple's popular iPad tablet into and out of the country has been told that China's customs authorities are unlikely to intervene in the trademark battle. Proview Technology, the Chinese company embroiled in a legal battle with Apple Inc over the iPad name, said that customs authorities had told it that the sheer size of the market and the popularity of iPads would make it difficult to impose a ban.
Cisco Systems Inc. said it is appealing the European Commission's approval of Microsoft Corp.'s $8.5 billion acquisition of Internet-calling service Skype SA, even though the deal closed months ago. The move underscores how Cisco and Microsoft, which dominate long-separate sectors in technology, are increasingly colliding as video communications becomes more important to both companies.
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. and Bats Global Markets Inc., two of the three biggest operators of U.S. stock exchanges, said access to their websites was disrupted by attacks that flooded their systems with traffic. Trading systems at both companies were unaffected, according to Nasdaq’s Joseph Christinat and Stacie Fleming of Bats.
A team of European and American mathematicians and cryptographers have discovered an unexpected weakness in the encryption system widely used worldwide for online shopping, banking, e-mail and other Internet services intended to remain private and secure. The flaw — which involves a small but measurable number of cases — has to do with the way the system generates random numbers, which are used to make it practically impossible for an attacker to unscramble digital messages.
While many celebrated Valentine’s Day, hackers celebrated a different holiday: the one-year anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain, sometimes called the February 14 Revolution. They attacked Combined Systems, a company based in Jamestown, Pa., saying that the attack was in retaliation for sales by the company of chemical weapons “to repress our revolutionary movements.”
Leading U.S. senators plan to introduce a cybersecurity bill aimed at safeguarding the nation's water and power systems, which experts have warned often only have the most rudimentary protections against hackers. Senators John Rockefeller and Dianne Feinstein, both Democrats; Susan Collins, a Republican, and Joseph Lieberman, an independent, have drafted a comprehensive bill that would require the secretary of homeland security to designate certain infrastructure as critical and compel steps to safeguard against hackers.
A Chinese tech firm that claims it still owns the iPad trademark will seek a ban on exports of Apple Inc's computer tablets from China, which could deal a blow to the U.S. technology giant's sales worldwide. Proview Technology (Shenzhen) Co Ltd is petitioning Chinese customs to stop shipments of Apple's popular iPads in and out of China, but has not received a response, lawyer Xie Xianghui told Asian Legal Business.
For nearly a decade, hackers enjoyed widespread access to the corporate computer network of Nortel Networks Ltd., a once-giant telecommunications firm now fallen on hard times. Using seven passwords stolen from top Nortel executives, including the chief executive, the hackers -- who appeared to be working in China -- penetrated Nortel's computers at least as far back as 2000 and over the years downloaded technical papers, research-and-development reports, business plans, employee emails and other documents, according to Brian Shields, a former 19-year Nortel veteran who led an internal investigation.
The Justice Department approved Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the biggest acquisition in Google's history, and its transition to a company that builds both hardware and software, like its fierce rivals Apple and Microsoft. With a host of tech giants battling each other in court over the intellectual property that underlies smartphones and the software that runs them, the department's Antitrust Division also approved patent purchases by Apple, Microsoft and Research In Motion.
Apple said that it had asked an outside organization to conduct special audits of working conditions inside Chinese factories where iPhones, iPads and other Apple products are manufactured. And in a significant about-face for the company that has the potential to affect the electronics industry, Apple asked the organization to identify particular facilities where abuses are discovered.
Microsoft said it was investigating an attack by hackers on its Indian retail website, reportedly carried out by a Chinese group called the "Evil Shadow Team."
The U.S. government is seeking software that can mine social media to predict everything from future terrorist attacks to foreign uprisings, according to requests posted online by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. In a formal “request for information” from potential contractors, the FBI recently outlined its desire for a digital tool to scan the entire universe of social media — more data than humans could ever crunch.
The Obama administration proposed hiring more prosecutors to pursue intellectual property crimes in the new budget as the entertainment industry pressures the Justice Department to crack down on copyright infringement and counterfeiting. The Justice Department asked Congress for $5 million to hire 14 new employees, including nine attorneys, to focus on intellectual property crimes.
Apple’s battle over the rights to use the ‘iPad’ name in China entered a new phase after dozens of iPads were confiscated from retailers in a northern Chinese city. An inspection team under the Xinhua District Administration of Industry and Commerce in Shijiazhuang, an industrial city roughly a four-hour drive southeast of Beijing, confiscated 45 iPads last week after receiving a trademark violation complaint from Shenzhen-based Proview Technology, the state-run Hebei Youth Daily newspaper reported.
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