Google has given roughly 200 people and organizations, including a British police unit, the ability to “flag” up to 20 YouTube videos at once to be reviewed for violating the site’s guidelines. The Financial Times last week reported that the U.K. Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit has been using its “super flagger” authority to seek reviews -- and removal -- of videos it considers extremist.
Japan faces a full-on cyber attack across government departments in a drill aimed at bolstering national security as the country gears up to host the 2020 Olympics. Japan is following the lead of Britain, which invited ethical hackers to test its computer systems in the run up to the 2012 London Olympics. Read the article: Reuters
Republicans are seeing red following the Obama administration's decision to relinquish control of the Internet to the "international community." The move is "red meat for the base," former Republican California congresswoman Mary Bono told Politico, another club the party can use to hammer President Obama on foreign policy.
Beauty supplier Sally Beauty confirmed that hackers broke into its network, stealing the payment data of up to 25,000 customers. The information stolen included payment card numbers and the three-digit security codes found behind them, known as CVV numbers, the company said.
Long frustrated in efforts to collect payments from some users of its software in China and other emerging markets, Microsoft Corp. has enlisted help from an unlikely set of allies: attorneys general in states such as Louisiana and Oklahoma. Attorneys general don't typically get involved in overseas disputes involving companies from outside their state borders, but Microsoft has helped persuade attorneys general that overseas software piracy leads to job losses at manufacturing companies in their states.
Edward Snowden's revelations could make the World Wide Web a much smaller place. Efforts by 15 countries and the European Union to restrict the flow of data internationally could Balkanize chunks of the Internet, stifle innovation and make online communications less secure, according to new research.
The mass expansion of Internet domain names could cause havoc for the defence of trademarks in cyberspace, the UN's intellectual property body warned. "We have this extraordinary expansion that is going on," said Francis Gurry, head of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which oversees global rules against cybersquatting.
Google Inc., the world’s largest Internet-search provider, is seeking to black out portions of a transcript from a public court hearing that includes information on how it mines data from personal e-mails. Google, fighting a lawsuit claiming its interception of e-mails amounts to illegal wiretapping, asked U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh in a filing to redact “confidential” information from the transcript, without being more specific.
Unidentified hackers brought down several public NATO websites with cyber attacks, the alliance said, in what appeared the latest escalation in cyberspace over growing tensions over Crimea. A group calling itself "cyber berkut" said the attack had been carried out by patriotic Ukrainians angry over what they saw as NATO interference in their country.
The U.S. government plans to give up control over the body that manages Internet names and addresses, a move that could bring more international cooperation over management of the Web, but will make some U.S. businesses nervous. The Commerce Department said it plans to relinquish its oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, which manages a number of technical functions that serve as signposts to help computers locate the correct servers and websites.
A federal judge left unchanged the royalty rate that the streaming service Pandora pays songwriters, a move that may fuel efforts by music groups to change the decades-old government regulation over licensing. Judge Denise L. Cote of Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled that for each year from 2011 to 2015, Pandora must pay 1.85 percent of its revenue to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for the use of its members’ music, according to a statement by the society, better known as Ascap, which was sued by Pandora in late 2012.
Target Corp's security software detected potentially malicious activity during last year's massive data breach but its staff decided not to take immediate action, the No. 3. U.S. retailer said. "With the benefit of hindsight, we are investigating whether if different judgments had been made the outcome may have been different," company spokeswoman Molly Snyder said in a statement.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to his social network to say he has called President Obama about the operations taken by the U.S. government. "I've called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future," Zuckerberg said in a post.
Google is encrypting searches in China in an attempt to prevent surveillance by state agencies and hackers. The search giant said that all text entered will be made indecipherable automatically, in a move that could render the "Great Firewall" -- China's infamous Internet censorship system -- useless for tracing the activity of Google users.
Revealing who controls a patent is becoming a key issue in more infringement lawsuits as the market to buy and sell patents grows and ownership issues get murkier. Big companies hide behind little-known firms to avoid countersuits.
A mysterious computer virus believed to be from Russia infected hundreds of thousands of PCs around the globe after attacking the U.S. military's Central Command in an unprecedented breach uncovered in 2008, according to the details of new research. Costin Raiu, director of research at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, said that least 400,000 computers across Russia and Europe were infected with the virus, dubbed Agent.BTZ, based on the number of infections detected by his firm's anti-virus software.
The National Security Agency has been disguising itself as Facebook servers in order to gain access to the computers of intelligence targets, according to a new report. Citing new documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the online news site The Intercept reported the story.
One U.S. senator is taking a stand against website names that end in ".sucks," saying that this naming scheme is "little more than a predatory shakedown scheme." Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D- W.Va) wrote a letter to the people who control Internet names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (better known as ICANN), urging them not to approve the ".sucks" domain.
Tree.com Inc., operator of the LendingTree.com home loan site, lost a trial in which it accused competitors including Zillow Inc. of infringing patents related to ways to borrow money over the Internet. Zillow, operator of the largest real-estate information website; Adchemy Inc.; and Nextag Inc. didn’t infringe the patents.
The inventor of the world wide web believes an online "Magna Carta" is needed to protect and enshrine the independence of the medium he created and the rights of its users worldwide. Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the Guardian the web had come under increasing attack from governments and corporate influence and that new rules were needed to protect the "open, neutral" system.
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