The BBC has suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack following a campaign by Iranian authorities against its Persian service, director-general Mark Thompson said. Thompson also reported attempts to jam satellite feeds of the British Broadcasting Corporation services into Iran and to swamp its London phone lines with automated calls.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission subpoenaed Apple Inc. as part of its antitrust probe of Google Inc., seeking information on how the computer maker incorporates the search engine on the iPhone and iPad, two people familiar with the matter said. The agency’s request for documents includes the agreements that made Google the preferred search engine on Apple’s mobile devices, said the people, who weren’t authorized to speak publicly and declined to be identified.
AT&T is offering a settlement to an iPhone user who won a small-claims case that alleged the company was slowing down his "unlimited" data service. AT&T isn't saying if it's offering Matthew Spaccarelli more money, but it says it will look at shutting off his service if he doesn't sit down to talk.
Is Apple's Siri digital assistant on the iPhone 4S everything it's advertised to be? Not according to a New York man who is suing the iPhone-maker for what he alleges are intentionally misleading Apple ads promoting Siri's capabilities.
The consortium of companies who successfully bid on Nortel's patent portfolio last year received the go-ahead from the U.S. Department of Justice to proceed with the acquisition. That deal was struck last June by the Rockstar Bidco consortium -- a group of companies led by Apple that sought ownership of some 6,000 patents and patent applications from the bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker.
Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. are set to stand trial in a New Delhi court to face charges that they failed to censor objectionable content from their sites, putting on stark display the legal risks for Internet companies chasing growth in India. The case is the highest-stakes example yet of the controversy in India over what role Internet companies should have in policing content on the Web.
Aereo Inc, a new online television service backed by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, has filed a countersuit against several broadcasters, seeking a declaration that it does not infringe their copyrights. The countersuit was filed 11 days after broadcasters including Walt Disney Co's ABC, CBS Corp and Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal and Telemundo sued Aereo, seeking an injunction to stop its alleged plan to retransmit their programs without permission.
In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook. The attack by the Internet icon against perhaps the most powerful consumer social networking site today is sure to be a controversial one, pitting Yahoo against a company that has surpassed it handily in recent years among consumers.
A Minnesota middle school student, with the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union, is suing her school district over a search of her Facebook and e-mail accounts by school employees. The 12-year-old sixth grade student, identified in court documents only as R.S., was on two occasions punished for statements she made on her Facebook account, and was also pressured to divulge her password to school officials, the complaint states.
Amateur cybersleuths have been hunting malware, raising firewalls and fending off mock hack attacks in a series of simulations supported in part by Britain's eavesdropping agency. The games are intended to pull badly-needed talent into the country's burgeoning cybersecurity sector, according to former security minister Pauline Neville-Jones, who spoke at a closing ceremony at the Science Museum in the English port city of Bristol.
In a move aimed at helping newspapers generate new revenue from struggling online operations, the German government intends to require search engines and other Internet companies to pay publishers whose content they highlight. The German governing coalition, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, said that it planned to introduce legislation to create a new kind of copyright for online publishers. Under the proposal, Internet aggregators and search engines would have to pay the publishers if they wanted to display all or parts of their articles — even small snippets like those that are shown in search links.
Emboldened by their victory in quashing online piracy legislation, U.S. Internet companies are gearing up for a battle over whether consumers should be able to restrict efforts to gather personal data. Google Inc, Facebook, Apple Inc and other tech companies have lobbied against congressional and federal agency proposals that would let Internet users press "do not track" buttons on their browsers to block targeted advertising.
Fresh off its success in helping to derail anti-online piracy legislation, the Consumer Electronics Association has set its sights on persuading lawmakers to pass legislation that would require online retailers to collect sales taxes from out-of-state customers. The association voted in December to take on the issue that has been simmering before Congress for two decades.
A judge said Apple Inc. couldn't pursue patent infringement litigation against Eastman Kodak Co. over a patent the computer giant fears might be sold during Kodak's bankruptcy before an ownership dispute is resolved. Judge Allan L. Gropper of U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan's rulings covered both a pending suit Apple has against Kodak over the patent, as well as another complaint it wants to bring that covers damages the company thinks it is owed since Kodak filed for Chapter 11.
One late-night visit by the FBI was all it took for the notorious hacker known as "Sabu" to switch sides and become a valued snitch. Hector Xavier Monsegur cooperated immediately in June, helping investigators close a net around five other leaders of the international hacking group Anonymous, according to court documents.
Samsung Electronics Co. says it has filed a second patent lawsuit against Apple Inc. in South Korea, alleging infringement of tablet and smartphone technology. Samsung said that the lawsuit filed in Seoul alleges that Apple's iPhone 4S and iPad 2 infringe three of Samsung's patents.
Anonymous hackers claimed to have taken down several Vatican websites run by the Catholic Church to protest the "corrupt Roman Apostolic Church." The hacking attacks on www.vatican.va and other sites came the day after several alleged members of the Anonymous-associated hacking group LulzSec were charged by U.S. authorities and it was revealed that LulzSec's leader had been an FBI informant.
The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter. Several of the parties have held talks to settle the antitrust case and head off a potentially damaging court battle, these people said.
A day after the authorities arrested several hackers from the Anonymous movement, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, warned members of Congress that terrorist groups might use hackers to attack the United States. Mr. Mueller said that the federal government must act swiftly to prevent such attacks and economic espionage from other countries because they pose a “potentially devastating” threat to the country’s businesses and infrastructure.
PayPal, the online payments arm of eBay Inc, has sparked a furor in the publishing world by asking some e-book distributors to ban books that contain "obscene" themes including rape, bestiality or incest. PayPal sent an email on Feb 18 to Mark Coker, founder of e-book publisher and distributor Smashwords, saying it would "limit" the company's PayPal account unless Smashwords removed from its website e-books "containing themes of rape, incest, beastiality and underage subjects."
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