New research offers evidence supporting a view long expressed privately by U.S. officials and American security researchers: Moscow commands the A-team of Internet adversaries. China, the object of recent U.S. allegations of cyberspying, may hack more often, U.S. officials and researchers say. But Russia hacks better.
Of the 4,700 suspicious drug-selling websites that the officials have reported to ICANN since February, about 4,000 stayed online after reports were filed to the sites’ registrars and Icann, according to LegitScript, a company that tracks online pharmacies. ICANN officials also say the organization, which is based in Los Angeles and has been overseen by the Commerce Department since 1998, does everything it can to prevent or stop illegal activity online.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery, known for creating the Philadelphia “Eagles Court” in Veterans Stadium to process unruly fans, said he will retire, the latest casualty in an online pornography scandal stemming from the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse case. McCaffery, 64, who has been on the high court for more than six years, was suspended Oct. 20 after publicly accepting responsibility for exchanging hundreds of sexually explicit e-mails on state accounts.
An American Airlines flight headed from Los Angeles to London returned to the terminal before takeoff after a passenger on the flight noticed a Wi-Fi hotspot with a terror-themed name. KABC-TV of Los Angeles says the passenger on Flight 136 found a Wi-Fi network called "Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork" (sic) and informed the flight crew.
Apple’s decision to bar HealthKit app developers from sharing user data with brokers or advertisers was a welcome move, Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Edith Ramirez said at a conference about connected devices. “Steps like this are, I believe, critical to fostering consumer trust,” Ramirez said during a speech at a Washington, D.C., conference on the Internet of Things.
Big banks are demanding that their law firms do more to protect sensitive information to ensure that they don’t become back doors for hackers. Once given special status as trusted third parties, lawyers, particularly those who get access to sensitive bank information, now are more likely to get full background checks.
Governments around the world, particularly in emerging markets, are raising taxes on information technologies, threatening to impede economic growth and slow consumers’ adoption of smartphones and broadband Internet access, a report warns. At least 31 countries, most of which are in the developing world, are imposing the damaging high taxes on top of other sales or value-added taxes, according to the report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan research group in Washington.
The personal information of almost 100,000 people seeking their high school transcripts was recently exposed on a Web site that helps students obtain their records. The site, NeedMyTranscript.com, facilitates requests from all 50 states and covers more than 18,000 high schools around the country, according to its Web site and company chief executive officer.
U.S. officials are fighting off another upswell of dissent from countries irked by the way the Internet is managed. The latest debate at the International Telecommunication Union’s conference in Busan, South Korea, could eventually determine whether the U.N. agency in charge of radio and telephone standards claims a role in setting rules for the Internet, too.
Nevada drivers with the ridesharing company Uber are picking up passengers despite a judge's order blocking the rides until at least until Nov. 7. Nevada Taxicab Authority spokeswoman Teri Williams told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that at least one Uber driver was cited for violating Nevada laws licensing car services.
A Massachusetts man was sentenced to 21 months in prison for his role in a cybercrime scheme that hacked accounts at banks, brokerage firms and government agencies in an attempt to steal more than $15 million, U.S. prosecutors said. Robert Dubuc, 41, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to commit access device fraud and identity theft in federal court in New Jersey in April.
The Ebola epidemic has migrated online, where cybercriminals are using the virus to infect more people with malware. First, the United States Computer Readiness Team, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, issued an advisory warning users about spam campaigns that used the Ebola virus to bait users into clicking on malicious web links or attachments. Now, Trustwave, a private security and compliance consulting company, discovered several Ebola-themed threats.
The story of Aereo, the streaming TV service that rattled the broadcast industry before the Supreme Court shut it down, is not over just yet it seems. A federal judge in New York slapped Aereo with an expected injunction, but also hinted how the service might survive in the future.
The "anonymous" social media app Whisper has been summoned to Capitol Hill to answer questions posed by the powerful chair of the Senate commerce committee. Jay Rockefeller said revelations in the Guardian about how Whisper tracks its users raise “serious questions” over privacy and demanded an explanation.
German publishers said they are bowing to Google’s market power, and will allow the search engine powerhouse to show news snippets in search results free of charge, at least for the time being. The decision is a step in an ongoing legal dispute between the publishers and Google.
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy pressed large Internet providers to pledge that they will not strike deals that may help some websites load faster than others or give similar "fast lanes" to affiliated services. As regulators work on new so-called "net neutrality" rules, Leahy wrote to chiefs of AT&T Inc, Verizon Communications Inc, Time Warner Cable Inc and Charter Communications Inc.
Apple defeated GPNE in a patent-infringement trial, with a jury determining the electronics giant's devices didn't infringe mobile technology owned by the nonpracticing entity. Apple, which called GPNE a patent troll, said in a statement that it was "pleased" by the verdict.
Fast-growing Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc. said it is migrating some data on non-Chinese customers away from its servers in Beijing due to performance and privacy considerations. Data belonging to the privately owned company's non-Chinese users will be moved in several phases to Amazon Inc. servers in the United States and data centers in Singapore, Xiaomi vice president Hugo Barra said in a blog post on Google Plus.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should reclassify broadband as a regulated public utility in order to achieve net neutrality, but take a “light touch” while doing it, a U.S. lawmaker said. The FCC should be selective about what public utility-style regulations it should apply to broadband, Representative Anna Eshoo, a California Democrat, wrote in a letter to the FCC.
Forty percent of American adult Internet users say they’ve been harassed online, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center, which found the harassment is often by strangers on social-networking sites. More than half of those who experienced online harassment did not know the person involved in the most recent incident of harassment.
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