Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc said it had reached a settlement allowing it to use a key piece of software in its trade finance business that a U.S. judge had prevented the bank from using due to copyright infringement. Terms of the settlement with Complex Systems Inc were not disclosed. But RBS in a statement said the deal would allow it to use the company's BankTrade software and continue processing trade finance transactions across all of its legal entities.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a report by a U.S. cybersecurity firm that it uncovered some 1.2 billion Internet logins and passwords amassed by a Russian crime ring, the largest known collection of such stolen data. Hold Security of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, disclosed earlier this month that it had discovered the credentials, collected over several years from approximately 420,000 websites and other servers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, concerned with how social media can be used to undermine his authority, this month expanded his regulation of media to the blogosphere, requiring those with at least 3,000 daily readers to register their real names and contact information. So far, about 580 bloggers in Russia have applied to register with the country's communications regulator Roskomnadzor.
Google plans to offer accounts to children under 13 years old for the first time, a move that will take the world’s largest Internet search provider into a controversial and operationally complex new market. Accounts on Google services such as Gmail and YouTube are not officially offered to children, though there is little to stop them from logging on anonymously or posing as adults to sign up for accounts.
Google Inc. and other critics of a European Union court ruling that created a right to be forgotten on the Internet are exaggerating it to undermine a reform of data-protection rules, the EU’s justice chief said. Search engines such as Google “complain loudly” about the ruling and such critics are using “distorted notions of the right to be forgotten to discredit” a planned reform of EU data-protection rules that includes the right, Martine Reicherts, the EU’s justice commissioner, said in a speech in Lyon, France.
Uber, the smartphone-based car service, won a reprieve when a local court in Berlin suspended a ban from the city’s authorities, who had ruled that Uber did not comply with passenger safety standards. The court will now weigh whether Uber, which has been valued at roughly $17 billion and operates in more than 100 cities in 36 countries, can legally operate in the German capital.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission computers within the past three years were successfully hacked by foreigners twice and also by an unidentifiable individual, according to an internal investigation. One incident involved emails sent to about 215 NRC employees in "a logon-credential harvesting attempt," according to an inspector general report Nextgov obtained through an open-records request.
U.S. hospital operator Community Health Systems Inc. said personal data, including patient names and addresses, of about 4.5 million people were stolen by hackers from its computer network, likely in April and June. The company said the data, considered protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, included patient names, addresses, birth dates, telephone numbers and Social Security numbers.
Vringo subsidiary I/P Engine had sued Google, AOL, IAC/InterActive and other companies, alleging that they infringed on patents covering ways of filtering Internet search results to make them more relevant. A jury agreed, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed that decision.
Supervalu Inc., a U.S. supermarket chain concentrated in the Midwest, suffered a data breach that exposed customers’ payment-card information, marking the latest hacker attack on the retail industry. The data may have been stolen from cards used in Supervalu stores from June 22 to July 17 following a network intrusion, the company said.
U.S. Federal Communications Commission said it would accept public comments on its proposed new "net neutrality" rules through Sept. 15, giving Americans extra time to weigh in on how they think Internet traffic should be regulated. The FCC has received more than 1 million comments already on new rules for how Internet services providers should be allowed to manage web traffic on their networks.
Apple Inc. has begun keeping the personal data of some Chinese users on servers in mainland China, marking the first time the tech giant is storing user data on Chinese soil. The storage of user data in China represents a departure from the policies of some technology companies, notably Google Inc. which has long refused to build data centers in China due to censorship and privacy concerns.
Twitter Inc. is reviewing its policies on privacy and support for family members of deceased users after Robin Williams’s daughter was sent abusive messages following his death. Twitter has suspended “a number of accounts” related to the incident, Del Harvey, vice president of trust and safety for the San Francisco-based company, said in a statement.
The Berlin state government has become the second German city to ban ride-sharing startup Uber’s app, saying it needed to protect passengers, Uber’s drivers -- and the city’s licensed taxi drivers. Uber’s general manager in Germany, Fabien Nestmann said in a blog post that the company will appeal the ruling, having already managed to overturn a similar ban in Hamburg.
At least thirty U.S. companies are "failing to provide" safeguards for European citizens promised by the U.S. government, a new complaint alleges. A filing submitted to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission by the Center for Digital Democracy claims Salesforce, Adobe, AOL, and other companies are "compiling, using, and sharing EU consumers' personal information without their awareness and meaningful consent, in violation the Safe Harbor framework."
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's Twitter account was apparently hacked and used to criticize the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin. The first tweet, published on Medvedev's official Twitter account @MedvedevRussia, said -- via translation by The Interpreter -- that he was "resigning," and added that he was "ashamed of the actions of the [Russian] government."
Yahoo was ordered to face claims it illegally shared the content of emails in the latest ruling to hold Internet companies accountable for how they convert users' personal data into advertising dollars. Privacy lawsuits against Yahoo, Google and LinkedIn are gaining more attention after a ruling by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in March that Google's privacy policy was vague and possibly misleading about how it mined emails for information.
Russia’s drive to censor and control the Internet has been rightly condemned, but it’s worth noting that Ukraine -- the neighbor with which Russia is involved in a tense standoff -- has similar plans. A new draft state security law passed its first reading in the Ukrainian parliament.
A developing U.S. cyber security program would not only hunt down and halt potential computer attacks but also strike back without staff oversight, according to former U.S. National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden. In an interview with Wired magazine, Snowden said the program -- MonsterMind -- could hurt countries caught in the middle as hackers could disguise the origin of their attacks by routing them through computers in other nations.
Google has a new tool to block a possible entryway for spammers to get at users' Gmail accounts. The web giant announced that it was adding new spam filtering support to its email platform in an effort to stop scammers from sending misleading or phishing messages.
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