California regulators are looking to toughen up insurance requirements for on-demand ride services that rely on people driving their own cars while on the job. Documents revealed proposed expanded regulations for insurance coverage with ride companies like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, demanding they provide $1 million commercial liability insurance starting when drivers turn on a smartphone app showing they are available to work.
Twitter said it fixed a security vulnerability in its TweetDeck application and turned the service back on following a breach that affected users for a few hours. Earlier, people who were logged in to the service started receiving random pop-up messages and unknowingly retweeting messages with random code script.
Feedly announced that it suffered a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, with the perpetrator(s) attempting to garner money from the company to make it stop. Feedly assured its users that their data remains safe, and access will be restored once the “attack is mitigated.”
The European Commission will launch a formal investigation into Apple Inc’.s tax arrangements in Ireland, Irish state broadcaster RTE reported, without naming its source. The EU’s competition authority said last year that it was looking into corporate tax arrangements in several member states and had requested information from Ireland.
P.F. Chang's China Bistro is investigating claims of a data breach involving credit and debit card data stolen from restaurant locations in the United States, the Asian-themed casual dining restaurant chain said. Stolen credit and debit card data appeared on an underground website used by criminals, according to KrebsOnSecurity.com, which covers computer security and cyber crime.
The Bank of England has launched a new cyber security strategy for financial institutions in the U.K., as the sector struggles to protect itself against the increased threat of cyber-attacks. The framework, called CBEST, is based on penetration tests that mimic techniques and procedures used by cyber criminals to harm large financial organizations, such as banks and stock exchanges.
Universities and research libraries that created a searchable online database for millions of books did not violate copyright protections belonging to authors whose works were scanned, a U.S. appeals court ruled. Rejecting an appeal by authors' groups, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said the HathiTrust Digital Library, which began in 2008 and has scanned more than 10 million works, constituted a "fair use" of copyrighted works.
Microsoft is challenging the authority of federal prosecutors to force the giant technology company to hand over a customer’s email stored in a data center in Ireland. The objection is believed to be the first time a corporation has challenged a domestic search warrant seeking digital information overseas.
Cyber crime costs the global economy about $445 billion every year, with the damage to business from the theft of intellectual property exceeding the $160 billion loss to individuals from hacking, according to research. The report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said cyber crime was a growth industry that damaged trade, competitiveness and innovation.
Just weeks after the Justice Department indicted five members of the Chinese army, accusing them of online attacks on United States corporations, a new report from CrowdStrike offers more evidence of the breadth and ambition of China’s campaign to steal trade and military secrets from foreign victims. The report, parts of which The New York Times was able to corroborate independently, ties attacks against dozens of public and private sector organizations back to a group of Shanghai-based hackers whom CrowdStrike called Putter Panda because they often targeted golf-playing conference attendees.
With hackers stealing tens of millions of customer details in recent months, firms across the globe are ratcheting up IT security and nervously wondering which of them is next. The reality, cyber security experts say, is that however much they spend, even the largest companies are unlikely to be able to stop their systems being breached.
Russian authorities say they have detained two young hackers who are alleged to have hijacked Apple devices and digitally held them ransom. The hackers -- aged 17 and 23 -- were detained in the course of "operational activities" by the Russian Interior Ministry, Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
The MPAA, the U.S.’s enforcer of movie copyright issues, is partnering with the very Chinese video site that it was suing just a few years ago. The Motion Picture Association of America said earlier it has inked a deal with Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technologies, a popular Chinese-language video website, to prevent “unauthorized downloading of and access to MPAA member company copyrighted works.”
After years of cooperating with the government, the immediate goal now of many leading high-tech companies is to thwart Washington — as well as Beijing and Moscow. The strategy is also intended to preserve business overseas in places like Brazil and Germany that have threatened to entrust data only to local providers.
Facebook said that it had blocked users in Pakistan from access to the pages of a popular Pakistani rock band and several left-wing political pages, drawing sharp criticism from free-speech activists who accused the American company of caving in to government censors. Members of the band, Laal, whose members have frequently spoken out against the Taliban, confirmed that their Facebook page, which had over 400,000 “likes,” had been blocked.
Mexico's intellectual property agency is backing a small local firm's rights to the "iFone" name, saying that ads for Apple's iPhone have encroached on the trademark. The Mexican firm iFone registered the name in 2003 to cover specialized telephone service for call centers and businesses.
A Romanian court sentenced hacker "Guccifer", who broke into the emails of former U.S. president George W. Bush's family, entertainment figures and the head of the Romanian secret service, to four years in jail. Marcel Lazar Lehel, a cab driver by trade and known by his aliases "Guccifer" and "Small Fume", was arrested in January in Bucharest and could spend a total of seven years behind bars as he also carries a previous three-year suspended sentence.
Companies based outside the European Union must meet Europe's data protection rules, ministers agreed, although governments remain divided over how to enforce them on companies operating across the bloc. The agreement to force Internet companies such as Google and Facebook to abide by EU-wide rules is a first step in a wider reform package to tighten privacy laws - an issue that has gained prominence following revelations of U.S. spying in Europe.
Verizon has sent Netflix a cease and desist order demanding that it stop presenting its subscribers with messages that blame Verizon's network for poor streaming performance. Netflix's messages are actively meant to knock Verizon — among other service providers — that it alleges have been hurting streaming quality, either actively or through failing to properly maintain their networks.
A year after Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs, the major U.S. technology companies suffering from the fallout are uniting to shore up their defenses against government intrusion. Instead of aggressively lobbying Washington for reform, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies have made security advancements their top priority, adopting tools that make blanket interception of Internet activity more difficult.
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