A judge on granted Apple Inc's bid to stop Samsung Electronics from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the United States, giving the iPhone maker a significant win in the global smartphone and tablet patent wars. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, had previously denied Apple's bid for an injunction on the tablet and multiple Galaxy smartphones.
The Authors Guild is objecting to a proposed settlement between the Justice Department and three publishers over charges of price fixing in the electronic book trade, saying the deal gives Amazon the ability to "reshape the literary market" through excessive discounting, according to a filing. In their filing, the Authors Guild complains of "Amazon's monopolistic reach" in the bookselling market, and charges that the online retailer is relying on a set of unfair tactics to ensure that publishers comply with Amazon's pricing policies.
An Iranian-rights group sent an open-letter to Apple, blasting the company for denying Farsi-speaking Americans across the country the right to buy iPads simply because of the language they speak. The Farsi farce began last week in Alpharetta, Ga., where 19-year-old U.S. citizen Sahar Sabet claims she was turned down when she tried to purchase the tablet computer.
Authorities in the United States and overseas arrested 26 people in a crackdown on Internet credit card fraud after an extensive undercover operation. Two individuals were arrested in New York, nine elsewhere in the United States and 15 in 12 other countries, according to a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Cybercriminals attempted to steal at least $75 million from high-balance business and consumer bank accounts by using sophisticated fraud automation techniques that can bypass two-factor authentication, according to a report released by antivirus firm McAfee and online banking security vendor Guardian Analytics.
Kevin Mitnick, one of the best-known computer hackers of all time, knows what it is to be hunted by the American government and to face jail time as a result. That may be why Mitnick cheered Kim DotCom on via Twitter.
U.S. regulators filed a complaint against Wyndham Worldwide Corp and three subsidiaries, alleging that a failure to safeguard consumers' personal information led to more than $10 million lost to fraud. The Federal Trade Commission said repeated failures to secure consumer data led to hundreds of thousands of consumers' payment card information being exported to an Internet domain address registered in Russia.
Google risks becoming a publishing monopoly within a few years, Italy's antitrust chief said, adding that social networks should be subject to antitrust limits.
A minority owner of the Miami Heat NBA team has filed a copyright suit against a blogger for posting a photo of him. He is also suing Google for refusing to take the photo down.
The widely used RSA electronic security token is once again hacked -- but this time by a team of cryptography researchers, not thieves. The breach suggests that security companies have not kept with the technologies of criminals and spies.
Two British hackers pleaded guilty in a London court to plotting attacks against computers of international firms, law enforcement bodies and government agencies including the CIA, in a cyber crime spree that gained global attention. Ryan Cleary, 20, of southeast England, and Jake Davis, 19, of Scotland, both members of the hacking group LulzSec, pleaded guilty at London's Southwark Crown Court to charges they conspired with others to hack websites last year, Britain's Press Association reported.
A U.S. trade panel said it would revisit an initial ruling that Apple infringed one of four patents asserted by Motorola Mobility, now a Google unit.
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As hackers step up attacks on law firms, attorneys are being forced to master a subject few of them studied in law school: cybersecurity.Lawyers, who increasingly rely on email, smartphones and other mobile devices to handle deals and other confidential matters, are being asked to encrypt messages, resist using free Wi-Fi connections, which can allow hackers to eavesdrop on communications, and regard even text messages as potential security threats.
After Pinterest's trove of copyrighted content became the subject of a legal debate, the popular social site made efforts to automatically add citations to content from specific sources. Now, it has announced that it has expanded this practice to five new sites.
Japan’s legislature has approved a bill revising the nation’s copyright law to add criminal penalties for downloading copyrighted material or backing up content from a DVD. The penalties will come into effect in October.
MegaUpload filed a court brief asking a judge to decide whether to dismiss criminal copyright infringement charges, a request that could result in a quick end to the court case against the company. The file-sharing site contends that federal criminal procedures dictate that a company must be served a criminal summons within the U.S. MegaUpload's headquarters were in Hong Kong, and it never had an office in the U.S., according to the brief, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
European lawmakers rejected the global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), signaling the European Parliament may soon use new-found rights to derail an international trade agreement. The ACTA deal, in the pipeline since 2008, aims to reduce intellectual property theft by cracking down on fake consumer goods and medicines and digital file-sharing of pirated software and music.
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., announced the latest in a string of bills designed to require companies to protect consumer data. Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2012 would require companies to notify consumers if personal information is stolen.
Entrepreneurs and big companies are battling one another for the rights to manage hot new Web address endings, including .app, .home and .book. Some are gathering in Prague, where they may decide to team up and pursue a contested domain together or duke it out.
A U.S. judge set a 2013 trial date for a lawsuit from the U.S. government accusing Apple and book publishers of conspiring to fix the prices of electronic books. Following a hearing in Manhattan federal court, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote said a bench trial in the case will begin June 3, 2013, for Apple and two publishers who are fighting the antitrust charges.
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