Twitter users sent more than 6.5 million Tweets during the third presidential debate -- and a few of them were death threats against President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Less than 24 hours later, the Secret Service took to Twitter in what the department calls a new tactic to gather information on potential threats against the people they protect.
Following a formal complaint from the European Commission about Microsoft's failure to live up to its promise to offer Window users a browser choice screen, Microsoft says it's sorry and attributes its 17-month period of non-compliance to a technical problem. "We take this matter very seriously and moved quickly to address this problem as soon as we became aware of it," Microsoft said in a statement.
A Dutch court has ruled Samsung Electronics does not infringe an Apple Inc patent by using certain multi-touch techniques on some of the Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablet computers. Samsung and Apple, the world's top two smartphone makers, are locked in patent disputes in at least 10 countries as they vie to dominate the lucrative mobile market and win over customers with their latest gadgets.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has decided that one of the smartphone patents at the center of the legal dispute between Apple and Samsung Electronics — which resulted in a jury award to Apple of $1.05 billion — should never have been granted. The patent office decision is an initial ruling and probably will be challenged by Apple.
Hackers have stolen credit card information for customers who shopped as recently as last month at 63 Barnes & Noble stores across the country, including stores in New York City, San Diego, Miami and Chicago, according to people briefed on the investigation. The company discovered around Sept. 14 that the information had been stolen but kept the matter quiet at the Justice Department’s request so the FBI could determine who was behind the attacks, according to these people.
Amazon.com Inc is grappling with a problem that eBay Inc has struggled with for years: The proliferation of unauthorized third-party sellers that undercut the world's top consumer brands. The sellers offer online shoppers goods ranging from Guess watches to LG televisions and Adidas sportswear at low prices, upsetting Amazon suppliers who want the world's largest online retailer to crack down on unauthorized discounting.
Brian Krebs, a closely followed computer security blogger, reported on Twitter that he had received a tip that the servers that power the entire Internet were under attack. But the unusual traffic directed at the DNS root servers was actually the Internet’s version of a fire drill.
Facebook Inc., the world’s biggest online social network, is increasingly being used by terrorists to recruit sympathizers, spread propaganda and plan potential attacks, according to the United Nations. “Promotion of extremist rhetoric encouraging violent acts is also a common trend across the growing range of Internet- based platforms that host user-generated content,” the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said today in a 148-page report, “The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes.”
Microsoft said that it would change its new disclosure policy to tell consumers explicitly that it would not use personal information it collects from users of some Microsoft products to produce or promote targeted online advertising. The action followed a letter by Representative Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who is co-chairman of the Congressional Bipartisan Privacy Caucus, to Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, expressing concern about the policy.
Microsoft instituted a policy that gives the company broad leeway over how it gathers and uses personal information from consumers of its free, Web-based products like e-mail, search and instant messaging. Almost no one noticed, however, even though Microsoft’s policy changes are much the same as those that Google made to its privacy rules this year.
Hours after Twitter blocked access to the account of an outlawed neo-Nazi group by users in Germany, the social networking site agreed to remove anti-Semitic posts that were proliferating in France under the hashtag #unbonjuif, or “a good Jew,” a French Jewish group announced. The agreement was announced by lawyers for the Union of Jewish Students of France, who had a conference call with Twitter representatives in California.
Cyberspace is the battlefield of the future, with attackers already going after banks and other financial institutions and developing the ability to strike U.S. power grids and government systems, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. "We confront a whole new threat of warfare in (cyberspace). ... This is an area we've got to pay close attention to. This is the battlefront of the future," he told a business group in Norfolk, Virginia, a city at the center of one of the largest concentrations of military power in the United States.
Weeks after Samsung filed paperwork requesting a new trial over objections with a particular juror, a big damages tally, and patent issues, Apple has filed its response. As you'd imagine, the iPhone and iPad maker, which was awarded $1.05 billion by a San Jose jury as part of a sweeping legal win in August, isn't into a re-do.
After bringing several file-sharing cases to a copyright tribunal following the implementation of a "three strikes" rule, the New Zealand recording industry group RIANZ has dropped the one case that was actively being defended. The defendant was the account-holder in a shared apartment who said she had no idea how to use file-sharing software, or even what it was, according to an account posted by Tech Liberty NZ, the group that defended her.
Google Inc. is weighing whether to settle a potential claim by U.S. authorities that it violated antitrust law in the way it handles mobile-device patents, according to a person familiar with the matter. At issue, according to two people familiar with the matter, is whether Google improperly refused to grant patent licenses to some mobile device competitors and sought court injunctions against them to stop their products from being sold.
The "Copyright Alert System," which will provide notices to consumers if their ISP suspects there is illegal downloading going on, will start "in the coming weeks," according to the group behind the system. "Over the course of the next two months, each participating ISP expects to begin rolling out its version of the CAS," according to the Center for Copyright Information, but an exact date for launch will be up to the ISPs involved.
Iran’s rogue regime has significantly advanced its cyber military capabilities over the last couple of years, now flaunting it as a “source of national pride,” according to a cyber security expert. Experts fear Iran, already pursuing nuclear weapons as its leaders amp up their rhetoric against Israel, could mount a digital attack against the West or Israel in retaliation for crippling economic sanctions.
HSBC Holdings, a British multinational bank with U.S. headquarters in Mettawa, Ill., became the 10th bank in recent weeks to suffer online outages as a result of a distributed denial of service attack. The $317.5 billion institution reported that its websites worldwide were knocked out of service as a result of the attack.
Internet giant Google has threatened to exclude French media sites from its search results if France implements a proposed law forcing search engines to pay for content, according to a letter obtained by AFP. The letter sent by Google to several ministerial offices this month said it "cannot accept" such a move and the company "as a consequence would be required to no longer reference French sites."
Twitter has blocked access to a neo-Nazi account at the request of the German government. The tweets will no longer be visible to users in Germany although the rest of the world will be able to view them.
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