Apple has lost its appeal against a ruling that cleared rival Samsung of copying its registered designs for tablet computers, in a decision which could end the two firms' legal dispute on the subject across Europe. Britain's Court of Appeal upheld the country's High Court judgment that, despite some similarities, Samsung's Galaxy tablet did not infringe Apple's designs, in part because its products were "not as cool".
The BB&T website became the latest target of Islamist hackers who recently interrupted the websites of Capital One, SunTrust, Regions Financial and other banking companies, the North Carolina-based bank acknowledged. BB&T customers had trouble accessing BBT.com after the Iranian “hacktivist” group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters launched its attack.
A photo agency is demanding $1.3 million from BuzzFeed after the viral news site published photos of singer Katy Perry and actress Kathy Griffin. The case comes at a time when online media is increasingly image-based, and raises questions about whether current copyright law is still working.
Even though European regulators want it changed, Google’s current privacy policy is necessary for the company to be able to create new products that know more about Google users, said Larry Page, the company’s chief executive. “Virtually everything that we want to do, I think, is somewhat at odds with locking down all of your information for uses you haven’t contemplated yet,” Mr. Page said.
Verizon Wireless has begun selling information about its customers' geographical locations, app usage, and Web browsing activities, a move that raises privacy questions and could brush up against federal wiretapping law. The company this month began offering reports to marketers showing what Verizon subscribers are doing on their phones and other mobile devices, including what iOS and Android apps are in use in which locations.
Computerized hospital equipment is increasingly vulnerable to malware infections, according to participants in a recent government panel. These infections can clog patient-monitoring equipment and other software systems, at times rendering the devices temporarily inoperable.
In a ruling, France’s privacy-rights regulator said Google’s new privacy policy violated European data-protection rules. Google failed to set “any limit concerning the scope of the collection and the potential uses of the personal data,” and gave users inadequate means to opt out, the agency said.
As a wave of smartphone taxi-hailing applications has challenged the industry’s regulators in cities around the country, Uber Inc. seemed to corner the market on brashness. But Uber backed down from its most recent confrontation -- an effort to launch a hailing application for New York’s yellow cabs, in apparent violation of existing rules that don’t allow cab drivers and passengers to “prearrange” a ride.
A British computer hacker accused by the United States of causing more than $700,000 damage to U.S. military systems will not be extradited because of the high risk he could kill himself, Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May said. Gary McKinnon, who has been fighting extradition for seven years, faced up to 60 years in a U.S. jail if found guilty of what one U.S. prosecutor called the "biggest military computer hack of all time."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., says he will revive a stalled cybersecurity bill after the election. The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was backed by Reid and the White House, but Republican critics blocked the bill over concerns that it could establish onerous security regulations on the business sector.
A division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning to smartphone users about mobile malware and device safety, specifically regarding the Android operating system. A report published by the Internet Crime Complaint Center revealed that it has been made aware of various malware attacks, such as Loozfon and FinFisher, that target Android smartphones.
A Pennsylvania prison inmate is waging a novel legal battle -- for a supposed First Amendment right to Facebook. Mark Nixon, who is incarcerated in Frackville, Pa., filed a federal civil rights lawsuit after he was denied access to printouts of Facebook pages sent through the U.S. mail, which prison officials labeled "unacceptable correspondence" and discarded.
Following the departure of several high-level employees, Zynga is striking back by filing a lawsuit against one of its former general managers, alleging “the wholesale theft of some of its most sensitive and commercially valuable data.” The complaint was filed in Superior Court in San Francisco against Alan Patmore, for misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of written contract.
European Union data protection authorities have found legal problems with Google's new privacy policy and asked the company to make changes, a letter from a majority of the bloc's national regulators seen by Reuters said. The letter, which stopped short of declaring Google's approach to collecting user data illegal, comes after a nine-month investigation led by France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique (CNIL) on behalf of the EU's regulators.
Owners of Amazon.com's Kindle e-readers will receive refunds on past e-book purchases and see e-book prices drop if a judge approves legal settlements with publishers accused of fixing prices, according to the Internet retailer. Amazon told Kindle owners in emails that they could receive a refund of between 30 cents and $1.32 for e-books they bought between April 2010 and May 2012.
Iranian hackers with government ties have mounted cyberattacks against American targets in recent months, escalating a low-grade cyberwar, U.S. officials say. The Iranian effort culminated in a series of recent attacks against U.S. banks as well as electronic assaults this year on energy companies in the Persian Gulf.
Computer security experts have identified vulnerabilities in the voter registration databases in two states, raising concerns about the ability of hackers and others to disenfranchise voters. In the last five years, Maryland and Washington State have set up voter registration systems that make it easy for people to register to vote and update their address information online.
German prosecutors will drop a criminal probe into whether Google Inc. illegally gathered wireless-network data for its Street View mapping service, two people familiar with the issue said. Prosecutors in the city of Hamburg didn’t find criminal violations, according to the people, who declined to be identified because the matter hasn’t formally ended.
The majority of top decision-makers at the Federal Trade Commission believe that an antitrust case should be brought against Google Inc., meaning the search giant could soon be headed into tough negotiations, three people familiar with the matter said. Four of the FTC commissioners have become convinced after more than a year of investigation that Google illegally used its dominance of the search market to hurt its rivals, while one commissioner is skeptical, the sources said.
Swiss Federal Railways announced that it has reached a licensing agreement with Apple over the use of its iconic clock design in the iPad version of iOS 6.The minimalist clock in question was developed by engineer and designer Hans Hilfiker for the Swiss train service (SBB) in 1944.
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