A new slide leaked by Edward Snowden shows where the NSA infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malware, according to Dutch media outlet NRC. The NSA management presentation slide from 2012 shows a world map spiderwebbed with "Computer Network Exploitation" access points in more than 50,000 locations around the globe.
Twitter announced that it has added Perfect Forward Secrecy, after similar announcements by Google, Mozilla and Facebook. The technology adds an extra layer of security to Web encryption to thwart eavesdropping, or at least make the National Security Agency’s job much, much harder.
A closely watched trial between a photographer who covered the 2010 Haiti earthquake and two large news companies ended with a jury awarding Daniel Morel $1.2 million, according to reliable reports from Manhattan’s federal court. The case is important because it has helped to establish rules for the use of photos in the age of social media, when a single image can be rapidly republished thousands of times.
Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, is worried that Russia's Internet filtering could turn the country into the next China, though Chinese censorship and rights restrictions can't last forever as the country and technology grow, he said. Russia last year passed legislation to blacklist Web sites, and the government has been accused of using the law to block information it deems unfit for the population, in addition to illegal content like child pornography.
Prosecutors in Miami decided to drop felony charges against two girls in a September cyberbullying case that the police said contributed to the death of 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick, who jumped from a cement plant tower two months ago. The decision was made by the Polk County state attorney’s office after weeks of investigation and an analysis of thousands of Facebook messages failed to turn up enough evidence to charge the girls, one 14 and the other 12.
New Jersey will launch a five-day "soft" trial of 13 online gambling sites, ahead of the official November 26 debut of Internet gaming in the most populous state to date. New Jersey follows Nevada and Delaware in permitting online poker, and will also allow residents to play other casino games online, as well.
A jury said that Samsung Electronics would have to pay Apple nearly $290 million in damages for violating patents, putting an end to one chapter in the long-running patent saga between the two tech companies. In August last year, a California jury determined that Samsung had infringed on a series of Apple patents and needed to pay more than $1 billion in damages. But the judge later revisited that sum and vacated $450 million of the original award, saying it was unclear how the jury calculated that portion, but said Samsung owed the remaining $600 million.
Citing two recent cases of copyright law abuse, WordPress.com-owner Automattic has announced it's backing 'censorship' victims by filing two lawsuits to deter future misuses. According to the blog-hosting company, a common form of censorship it encounters relates to the improper use of DMCA takedowns -- DMCA standing for the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" a U.S. law designed to protect copyright in the Internet age.
Protecting Internet traffic with hard-to-crack code may prevent governments from censoring their populations’ communications within a decade, Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt said. Schmidt described the coming of a “network age” in which Internet users communicate and organize socially through private channels shielded by encryption, which scrambles data with a mathematical formula that can be decoded only with a special digital key.
The United States accused China of jeopardizing talks on eliminating trade tariffs on billions of dollars of technology products due to its determination to claim dozens of exemptions. The talks are aimed at expanding a 16-year-old World Trade Organization agreement and updating it for the Internet era, cutting the import cost of a long list of items such as personal computers, laptops, telephones, fax machines, computer software, semi-conductors and many office machines.
A U.S. congressional panel approved a bill targeting patent "trolls," companies that buy or license patents from others and then aggressively pursue licensing fees or file infringement lawsuits. Internet companies largely support the bill, and the effort is backed by Cisco Systems Inc, Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other technology powerhouses.
China-based hackers may target Internet-based e-mail, data storage and other services provided overseas by such companies as Microsoft Corp. to spy on the U.S., a congressional commission found. The Chinese government wages “a large-scale cyber espionage campaign” and “has successfully targeted the networks of U.S. government and private organizations,” the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission concludes in its annual report to Congress.
Microsoft Corp filed a lawsuit against Acacia Research Corp., charging that Acacia broke a contract to license various smartphone and mobile computing technologies to Microsoft. The lawsuit, filed under seal in New York federal court, follows a number of patent infringement lawsuits brought by Acacia subsidiaries against Microsoft in October in Texas, Delaware and Illinois.
Hackers reportedly stole 42 million customer records including email addresses and clear-text passwords from Cupid Media, a network of dating websites. A file containing the Cupid Media user data was found on the same server where hackers also stored millions of records stolen from Adobe, PR Newswire, the U.S. National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and other organizations, independent security journalist Brian Krebs reported.
A company accused of submitting its unaware customers to a Bitcoin mining army has settled with a New Jersey's attorney and will pay a settlement of $1 million. Online video game company E-Sports Entertainment has been accused of infecting thousands of computers belonging to customers to illegally mine Bitcoins.
After shuttering hundreds of editing accounts, Wikipedia has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a service linked to "suspicious editing" and suggested it might file a lawsuit to resolve the matter. Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the online encyclopedia, announced last month that it had blocked or banned more than 250 editing accounts as part of an investigation into "suspicious edits and sockpuppetry" that promoted organizations or products.
Brazilian lawmakers continue to focus on an Internet bill that could force U.S. companies like Google Inc. to open costly data centers in the country amid fallout from allegations of cyberespionage by Washington. For weeks, the lower house of Congress has deferred debate on other matters to discuss a measure that would require local storage of online data relating to Brazilian citizens.
Google has agreed to remove from its Maps service a satellite image that shows a dead teenager. Kevin Barrera was shot in 2009. His body was found near a railway line in Richmond, California.
The Obama administration released hundreds of pages of newly declassified documents related to National Security Agency surveillance, including an 87-page ruling in which the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court first approved a program to systematically track Americans’ emails during the Bush administration. Many of the documents have historic significance, showing how Bush administration surveillance programs that were initially conducted without court oversight and outside statutory authorization were brought under the authority of the surveillance court and subjected to oversight rules.
Apple Inc. argued in court on that Samsung had failed to present meaningful evidence to rebut allegations that the Korean electronics giant had improperly used the iPhone maker's patented technology. At closing arguments in a San Jose, California federal court, Apple attorney William Lee said Samsung had not produced any senior executives from Korea to testify in a damages retrial between the two companies, while Apple called its marketing chief Phil Schiller to the stand.
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