A Swedish man repatriated by Cambodia to serve a prison sentence for his involvement with file-sharing site The Pirate Bay was arrested in a new hacking investigation as he returned home. Prosecutors said Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, is suspected of hacker attacks against a company handling sensitive information for the Swedish tax authority.
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, a co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has left Cambodia and is being transported to Sweden, a spokesperson at Sweden's foreign ministry said. One of the masterminds behind the file-sharing website, Mr. Svartholm was arrested last month by Cambodian police.
A member of Anonymous, the loose hacking collective, claimed responsibility for an attack that apparently brought down Web sites hosted by Go Daddy. The company’s site was down, as were many of the Web sites hosted on its servers, including the fantasy sports site Draft Day.
A Florida company said on that its files -- not an FBI agent's laptop -- were hacked by a renegade group that released Apple product identification data it claimed to have obtained through a breach of the nation's top law enforcement agency. "We want to apologize, announce what happened and set the record straight," said Paul DeHart, chief executive officer of software company BlueToad Inc.
One day after a start-up company unveiled an app allowing yellow-taxi drivers and passengers to find one another, New York City issued this gentle reminder: Smartphone apps may be the future of hailing a taxicab, but at least for now, their time will have to wait. In an industry notice, the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission said it had not authorized the adoption of any apps used for cab-hailing or payment, including a service from Uber, which began offering its new app in about 100 taxis.
Al-Jazeera says hackers have targeted the Qatar-based TV satellite channel for the second time in a week, sending out false news reports on its mobile phone alert service. A pro-Damascus group known as the Syrian Electronic Army quickly claimed responsibility for the hack on Twitter.
The Federal Communications Commission is rapidly backpedalling from a proposal to tax broadband Internet service after a public outcry over the issue. Democrats and Republicans at the agency are now blaming each other for pushing the idea in the first place.
Apple Inc. may face a difficult task invalidating two HTC Corp. patents for data transmission in wireless devices, a U.S. trade judge said at a trial that could lead to import bans on the newest iPad and next version of the iPhone. “Clear and convincing means something to me,” U.S. International Trade Commission Judge Thomas Pender said in Washington, referring to the legal standard in determining that a patent shouldn’t have been issued.
Software giant Microsoft is ready to introduce measures that would address the European Union's antitrust concerns about users' ability to choose between different browsers, European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said. EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft blocks computer makers from installing rival web browsers on its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, following complaints from several companies.
A lawsuit against Apple over the durability of the iPhone 4's glass was tossed out by a federal judge in California. U.S. District Judge Edward Davila dismissed a case filed by Betsalel Williamson on January 2011, which sought class-action status and accused Apple of breaching its warranty by charging for broken glass.
A federal judge sentenced an Arizona man to 30 months in prison for selling access to thousands of hijacked computers. Prosecutors said Joshua Schichtel, 30, of Phoenix, infected about 72,000 computers with viruses.
South Korean regulators are investigating complaints filed by Apple Inc that Samsung Electronics Co is abusing its dominant position in wireless technology, the Korea Fair Trade Commission said. Rivals Apple and Samsung are locked in patent disputes in 10 countries, as they vie for market share in the booming mobile industry.
The use of open-source software is becoming more prevalent at big companies for reasons including ease of innovation and cutting the time to get products to market. More than 50% of the software acquired in the next five years will be open source, according to the sixth annual Future of Open Source Survey published by North Bridge Venture Partners and Black Duck Software Inc.
A price-fixing settlement between the U.S. government and electronic-book publishers Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group Inc. and HarperCollins Publishers LLC was approved by a judge in New York. The Justice Department in April sued the three publishers along with Apple Inc., Pearson Plc (PSON)’s Penguin Group and MacMillan, a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH.
Cambodia is the latest country to come under sustained attack from computer hackers after police in the tiny Southeast Asian country arrested one of the founders of The Pirate Bay file-sharing website. A group calling itself NullCrew began hacking into government and commercial websites in the country after news of Gottfrid Svartholm Warg's arrest broke over the weekend.
Mitt Romney’s tax returns are reportedly in the hands of a team of hackers who plan on releasing them publicly at the end of the month unless a ransom is paid. The group allegedly obtained the files from PricewaterhouseCooper’s Tennessee office on Aug. 25, in what was described on PasteBin as a Mission Impossible-like caper.
The federal judge in Oracle v. Google has given up on trying to find any more paid journalists, bloggers, and similar commentators in the case while also ordering Oracle to hand some money over to Google. In a new order, Judge William Alsup said that the U.S. District Court of Northern California would "take no further action regarding the subject of payments by the litigants to commentators and journalists and reassures both sides that no commentary has in any way influenced the Court’s orders and ruling herein save and except for any treatise or article expressly cited in an order or ruling."
U.S. consumers lost $20.7 billion to cybercrime over the past 12 months, with 71 million Americans falling victim to online bad guys, according to new research. Globally, losses resulting from cybercrime including malware attacks and phishing hit $110 billion between July 2011 and the end of July 2012, a report by Symantec has found.
Cambodia will deport a Swedish co-founder of Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites, who was convicted and sentenced to prison in Sweden for breaching copyright laws, a police official said. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, has been living in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, and was arrested last week after a request from Sweden, but he may not necessarily be sent back home directly.
Hackers have released a file that they say contains more than one million identification numbers for Apple iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. They claim to have obtained the file by hacking into the computer of a federal agent.
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