A U.S. firm that helps connect more than 700 companies with customers through social media says a Syrian group hacked the company's web address to upload a message to other websites. Published reports noted the message appeared on websites for several UK newspapers, CNBC and the National Hockey League.
Members of the EU parliament in Strasbourg, France, voted 384-174 for the European Commission -- which is investigating Google for possible antitrust violations -- to consider "unbundling search engines from other commercial services." The motion, which isn't binding, didn't mention Google by name.
Over the next few weeks, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ratcheting up efforts to track down and confiscate millions of dollars’ worth of gift-friendly goods before they can reach store shelves or the doorsteps of online shoppers. The holidays are a popular time for knock-off sales -- everything from headphones and electronics to sports jerseys, jewelry, handbags and toys.
Two music publishers are taking aim at a new target in the battle against illegal song downloading: the cable industry. BMG Rights Management LLC and Round Hill Music LP sued cable giant Cox Communications Inc., claiming that Cox, which provides Internet service to millions, is deliberately turning a blind eye to illegal downloading by its subscribers.
The big Internet companies have a "social responsibility" to act on terrorist material posted online, British Prime Minister David Cameron has said. It comes after a report into Fusilier Lee Rigby's murder found one of his killers spoke online about murdering a soldier five months before the attack.
An initiative from the Italian government -- occupying the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union -- could substantially weaken proposed rules that would uphold net neutrality in Europe, according to a document seen by Real Time Brussels. The net-neutrality rules are part of wider proposals covering the EU telecoms sector.
The number of lawsuits facing Home Depot from its data breach has risen to at least 44, the company reported. In its third quarter report, The Home Depot Inc. gave investors an outline of the tsunami of litigation that's rolling toward the home improvement giant related to the data breach.
The United States voiced concern over a draft plan by two EU lawmakers to break up Google Inc., saying politicians should not influence the EU's antitrust inquiry into the world's most popular Internet search engine. The U.S. Mission to the European Union said in an email it "noted with concern" the call for competition regulators to consider splitting search engines from other Internet services.
Sony Pictures Entertainment was hit by hackers and the company told employees to turn off their computers and disable Wi-Fi as a result, reports say. The hackers appeared to be holding the company hostage and demanded that the company obey them or they would release presumably private data.
Google Inc. said it had reached a settlement with a British businessman over defamatory postings in its search results describing him as a pedophile, a murderer and a money-launderer. Former Morgan Stanley banker Daniel Hegglin, who said he was subjected to years of defamation by unknown users, had sued the Internet giant to have it block links to the abusive material that appeared on several thousand websites.
Security researchers say they have discovered a sophisticated piece of malicious code spying on researchers, governments, businesses, and critical telecommunications infrastructure since 2008. The malware, called Regin, was first discovered by Symantec, the antivirus company, which released a white paper describing its findings.
The U.K. government could soon require Internet service companies to keep records to identify people using a particular phone or computer and hand them over to the police upon request. The Conservative-led government says the new measures -- expected to be outlined by Home Secretary Theresa May -- are needed to combat a growing terrorism threat and to aid the fight against online child sexual exploitation.
Samsung Electronics Co. is seeking to block computer-graphics chips made by Nvidia Corp. from the U.S. market, escalating a battle begun after licensing talks failed. Samsung filed a complaint against Nvidia with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, according to a notice on the agency’s website.
China laid out its reasons for controlling online content at the first government-sponsored Internet conference, saying it is crucial to thwart terrorist attacks in the country. “In recent years, the Internet has become the major channel for terrorists to organize and to incite violent attacks,” Gu Jianguo, director of the cyberspace security department of the Ministry of Public Security, said at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China.
The European Parliament is preparing to call on regulators to consider splitting Internet search from other commercial services, according to a draft motion seen by Reuters, escalating a longstanding effort to curtail Google’s dominance of the industry. European politicians have grown increasingly concerned about Google’s and other American companies’ command of the Internet industry, and have sought ways to curb their power.
A federal judge approved a settlement in which Apple could begin paying $400 million to as many as 23 million consumers related to charges that it violated antitrust law by conspiring with publishers to raise e-book prices and thwart efforts by Amazon. In the hearing, Judge Denise L. Cote of Federal District Court in Manhattan approved an unusual settlement reached this summer in which Apple agreed to pay $400 million to consumers in cash and e-book credits, and $50 million to lawyers.
Aereo, the embattled video startup, announced that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, weeks after it said it was laying off dozens of workers in its Boston and New York offices. Aereo's been fighting court battles for months with broadcast TV networks.
If you fear the website you just visited may have stolen your e-mail password, don't delay taking action. Hackers who use that information to access accounts move at "astonishing" speed, according to a report from Google and the University of California at San Diego.
A particularly nasty mobile malware campaign targeting Android users has hit between four million and 4.5 million Americans since January of 2013, according to an estimate by Lookout, a San Francisco mobile security company that has been tracking the malware for about two years. Lookout first encountered the mobile malware, called NotCompatible, two years ago and has since seen increasingly sophisticated versions.
A U.K. privacy watchdog wants to shut down a Russian site that shows images from thousands of insecure personal webcams. U.K. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said he was trying to work with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Australian, Canadian and Russian authorities to shut down the site, insecam.cc, which has set off alarm bells over the last month.
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