Microsoft has confirmed that a "small number" of employee email accounts were accessed during the latest round of attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army. The hacking group posted three internal emails that appear to have been obtained from several Microsoft employee’s Outlook Web Access accounts.
Don't expect major changes to how you access your favorite websites and services despite a federal appeals court's decision to set aside rules meant to ensure equal access to entertainment, news and other online content. Major cable providers already have pledged not to do the kinds of things the rules were designed to ban.
Google ads prompted by sensitive personal health information gleaned from users’ online search history violate Canada’s privacy law, the interim privacy commissioner said. Chantal Bernier said an investigation by her department found that Google’s online advertising service used sensitive information from users’ online activities to target them with ads.
The European Union wants Google to come up with more concessions within weeks if it is to avoid formal charges in an investigation into alleged anti-competitive behavior, a top official said.
The Federal Trade Commission announced a $32.5 million settlement with Apple over charges that it did not adequately notify customers about an app feature that allowed children to purchase items without parental consent. Apple previously had taken steps to offer refunds to consumers who were affected, and the company said in an email to employees that it received 37,000 claims.
Marvell Technology Group Ltd has failed to convince a federal judge to reduce by more than half a $1.17 billion jury verdict for infringing two hard disk drive patents held by Carnegie Mellon University. U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer in Pittsburgh, where Carnegie Mellon is based, denied Marvel's bid to cut about $620 million from the award on the basis that the university unreasonably delayed pursuing its claims for patent infringement.
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks. While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet, according to N.S.A. documents, computer experts and American officials.
Wells Fargo & Co has called finance executives, virtual currency experts and U.S. government representatives to discuss "rules of engagement" with Bitcoin amid concern about the money laundering risk of the currency, the Financial Times reported. The meeting focuses on the security issues surrounding banking and Bitcoin as financial regulators warn consumers on the risks of using unregulated online currencies, the London-based financial daily reported.
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) amassed more U.S. patents than any other company for the 21st straight year, helped by its push into big-data services, which glean insights by mining large quantities of information. IBM’s 6,809 patents in 2013 scored an annual record, the company said in a statement.
Democratic U.S. House and Senate lawmakers are stepping up demands for greater scrutiny of data breaches at Target Corp. that may have affected as many as 70 million customer accounts. Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, chairman of the Commerce Committee, sent a letter to Target Chief Executive Officer Gregg Steinhafel requesting a briefing for committee staff on the “circumstances that permitted unauthorized access” to the credit- and debit-card data during the holiday season.
Verizon Communications Inc. won its challenge to U.S. open-Internet regulations as an appeals court ruled against the Federal Communications Commission, saying the agency’s restrictions have no basis in federal law. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington sent the rules back to the FCC, which may attempt to rewrite the regulations that bar companies from slowing or blocking some Internet traffic.
Apple Inc lost a bid to block an antitrust monitor appointed after a judge's finding that the company conspired to fix e-book prices. At a hearing, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan denied Apple's request to stay an order requiring an external compliance monitor pending the company's appeal.
A top retail trade group executive called for tougher security standards that could mean more spending for the industry, its banks and business partners after a series of data breaches at major merchants. Stores and card processing companies have reported a steady stream of security breaches for years without a major backlash from consumers, such as those disclosed by TJX Cos in 2007 and by Heartland Payment Systems Inc in 2009.
The U.S. Supreme Court said it would not take on an Internet technology patent case that pitted a company accused of aggressively enforcing weak patents against another with an equally tough reputation for fighting patent infringement claims. The closely watched case involved the online shopping site Newegg Inc, which specializes in computer products, and software company Soverain Software LLC, which had accused Newegg of infringing three patents known as the "shopping cart patents," which describe a way to buy products online and pay for them.
A Virginia appeals court ordered Yelp to identify those responsible for seven negative reviews of a carpet cleaning company, citing a state statute that allows courts to unmask those behind online avatars if there is "legitimate, good-faith" belief they violated the law. Legal experts say that Virginia has a lower standard for outing internet users than other states including California and that the decision likely won't set a precedent for the wholesale disclosure of anonymous speech online.
A Microsoft Twitter account was reportedly hacked by a group that posted an odd message, according to media reports.
Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants that have yet to be publicly disclosed. Smaller breaches on at least three other well-known U.S. retailers took place and were conducted using similar techniques as the one on Target, according to the people familiar with the attacks.
A Canadian teenage girl has been found guilty of distributing child pornography in connection with "sexting" pictures of her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend, the youth crown prosecutor for Victoria said. The British Columbia case of the then 16-year-old, who is not identified because she is a minor, is believed to be one of the first cases in Canada where a teenager has been convicted of child pornography charges related to "sexting."
A former sports reporter and a former employee in a university’s publications department, Roger Shuler, 57, was arrested in late October on a contempt charge in connection with a defamation lawsuit filed by the son of a former governor. Mr. Shuler, who has hounded figures of Alabama's legal and political establishment on his blog, is sitting in jail indefinitely, and now on the list of imprisoned journalists worldwide kept by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Just weeks after Facebook was sued for allegedly intercepting private messages, the social network finds itself forced to defend another complaint that it conducts unlawful activities, this time for supposedly falsifying member endorsements -- aka "likes" -- for advertising purposes. The latest complaint, which is seeking class action status, was filed by lawyers for Colorado resident and Facebook user Anthony Ditirro with the San Jose division of the Northern District Court of California.
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