The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses that hackers it believes to be backed by the Chinese government have recently launched attacks on U.S. companies. The "flash" warning described tools and techniques used by the hackers and asked companies to contact federal authorities if they believe they are the victims of such attacks.
If Republicans indeed -- as is looking increasingly likely -- win back the Senate come Election Day, that change in power would shake up the landscape in all sorts of interesting and non-obvious ways. When it comes to tech policy it may well be a lively 114th Congress.
Three Google Inc. researchers have uncovered a security bug in widely used web encryption technology that they say could allow hackers to steal data in what they have dubbed a "Poodle" attack. The problem is an 18-year old encryption standard, known as SSL 3.0, which is still widely used in web browsers and websites.
Russian hackers used a bug in Microsoft Windows to spy on several Western governments, NATO and the Ukrainian government, according to a report released by iSight Partners, a computer security firm in Dallas. The targets also included European energy and telecommunications companies and an undisclosed academic organization in the United States, the cybersecurity report said.
Federal regulators last year told Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., and Microsoft Corp. to more clearly highlight the ads in their search-engine results, to avoid deceiving consumers. In response, the three leading U.S. search engines have done little, making it difficult for users to distinguish ads from “natural” search results.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) chief Fadi Chehade expressed his confidence in a move that would see ICANN end its contract with the U.S. government during a press briefing at the opening of the non-profit organisation's meeting this week in Los Angeles. The timeline for the shift is months rather than years, according to Chehade.
Ireland is expected to announce changes to its tax code that could eventually close one of the world’s most famous corporate-tax loopholes, dubbed the Double Irish, after heavy pressure from governments and the European Union, tax experts say. Already, companies particularly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors are setting up battle plans to cope with potential changes.
Snapsaved.com, a website which allows users to save images sent via Snapchat, claimed that hackers had breached its servers and made off with some 500 megabytes of photographs. The claim by the little-known website sheds some light on reports in past days that hackers were preparing to unleash some 13 gigabytes of photographs sent via SnapChat, a mobile app popular among teenagers that promises users that any pictures relayed to other users will be deleted in a matter of seconds.
In an effort to push cybersecurity legislation through Congress, the Obama administration has given up trying to pass one big bill and is opting to break up the legislation into bite-size chunks that lawmakers are more likely to approve, the White House cybersecurity czar said. "I think it's easier to get smaller pieces through rather than one big cybersecurity bill," said White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel at a news event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor and the Center for National Policy.
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Chairman and Chief Executive James Dimon said the bank would double spending on cybersecurity over the next five years, his first public remarks following the data breach that hit the nation’s largest bank this summer. He said J.P. Morgan over the next four to five years was likely to double its spending on cybersecurity from $250 million annually in 2014.
There are only "around 100" cybercriminal kingpins behind global cybercrime, according to the head of Europol's Cybercrime Centre. Speaking to the BBC's Tech Tent radio show, Troels Oerting said that law enforcers needed to target the "rather limited group of good programmers."
Lawyers for Ross Ulbricht have spent the last two months shifting the focus from their client, charged with creating the billion-dollar drug market the Silk Road, and putting it onto the potential illegality of the FBI’s investigation. Now Judge Katherine Forrest dismissed the defense’s motion to suppress evidence that hinged on the argument that law enforcement had violated Ulbricht’s Fourth Amendment right to privacy from unreasonable searches.
A giant database of intercepted Snapchat photos and videos has been released by hackers who have been collecting the files for years. Shocked users of the notorious chat forum 4chan are referring to the hack as "The Snappening," noting that this is far bigger than the iCloud hacks that recently targeted celebrities.
Sears Holdings Corp.’s Kmart discount chain, the latest victim of hacker attacks on retailers, said it detected a security breach and is investigating the incident with law enforcement officials. The retailer’s information-technology team identified the breach on Oct. 9 and is working with a top security firm to assess the incursion, which happened in early September, Kmart said in a filing.
Google Inc. has suffered another setback on privacy issues, this time in Japan, following a European court ruling that gave Internet users the right to ask the company to remove information about them from search results. The Tokyo District Court issued an injunction, ordering Google to remove some Internet search results about a Japanese man that are considered to be violating his privacy, representatives from both sides said.
Bose Corp. and Apple Inc.’s Beats Electronics settled a patent dispute over noise-canceling headphones. Bose and Beats in joint filings told a U.S. court in Delaware they’ve settled their claims, and asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to terminate its investigation.
Facebook, and Google’s own services, are among the websites to be most affected by Europe’s so-called right to be forgotten, according to figures Google released. As part of an update to its online transparency report, Google said that it had removed more links to content on Facebook from its search results than from any other site, in response to people’s requests to have links to material expunged to protect their privacy.
The Chinese government is again upset with the U.S., this time over claims that China's hacking activities are costing the U.S. some serious cash. In an interview on "60 Minutes" on Sunday, FBI Director James Comey said Chinese hackers are actively targeting U.S. companies and costing the government billions of dollars each year
Google Inc. will fight patent holder Rockstar Consortium in a California court instead of a Texas court that lawyers consider more friendly toward plaintiffs. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered proceedings stayed in Texas over whether handsets made by Samsung Electronics, HTC Corp., AsuSTEK Computer, LG Electronics and ZTE Corp. infringed on Rockstar's patents because they used Google's Android operating system.
President Obama and his top national security advisers began receiving periodic briefings on the huge cyberattack at JPMorgan Chase and nine other financial companies this summer, part of a new effort to keep top national security officials as updated on major cyberattacks as they are on Russian incursions into Ukraine or Islamic State attacks. But in the JPMorgan case, according to officials familiar with the briefings, no one could tell the president what he most wanted to know: What was the motive of the attack?
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