IBM said it topped the list of patent recipients in 2014 with a total of 7,534 patents, 34 percent more than second-place Samsung, which had 4,952, according to data from IFI Claims Patent Services. It marked the 22nd consecutive year that IBM took first place.
The Twitter account of the U.S. Central Command was compromised with messages purporting to be from Islamic State, days after 17 people were killed in connected terrorist attacks in Paris. Central Command confirmed that its Twitter and YouTube accounts had been hacked.
President Obama will announce new initiatives designed to bolster online security and improve access to cyberspace, White House officials said. In a series of speeches, Mr. Obama will call for better safeguards against identity theft, improved privacy protection, enhanced cybersecurity for the government and private companies, and increased access to high-speed broadband connections across the country.
A hacking group leaked identifying details about 30,000 clients of a small Swiss bank, after Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE) declined the group’s request to pay a ransom. The hackers’ asking price for continued privacy: Ten thousand euros ($12,000 at current exchange rates).
Germany's highest court has declined to hear a complaint brought by online taxi service Uber over a ban on its activity in the city of Hamburg, dealing a blow to the company. The Federal Constitutional Court said the complaint was "not accepted for a decision due to lack of admissibility," a spokesman for the court said, adding that the court had given no further justification for its position.
Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity said he and other security researchers have been working with law enforcement officials who are also investigating LizardSquad. They've managed to find that some of the systems and networks involved in LizardSquad's denial-of-service assaults are made up of off-the-shelf routers and compromised home networks.
Apple Inc. won the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding consumers by selling MacBook laptop computers that contained "logic boards" it knew were defective, and which routinely failed within two years. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said the plaintiffs, Uriel Marcus and Benedict Verceles, failed to show that Apple made "affirmative misrepresentations," despite citing online complaints and Apple marketing statements calling the laptops "state of the art" or the "most advanced" on the market.
It’s a safe bet the U.S. government isn’t taking advice from Edward Snowden these days, but the infamous leaker offered the Obama administration a warning as it mulls a further response to North Korea’s alleged hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment: don’t hack back. In an interview with PBS’ Nova Next, Snowden offered thoughts on cyberwar that are newly relevant after high-profile cyberattacks at J.P. Morgan Chase, Sony and elsewhere.
The Internet of Things arrived in force at this year’s International CES, the huge trade show. But while manufacturers at the event painted a rosy picture of connected grills, coffee makers, refrigerators and door locks, security experts and regulators warned that the Internet of Things could be a threat to both security and privacy.
Iran's official IRNA news agency says the judiciary has ordered three personal communication apps blocked, a decision President Hassan Rouhani's administration has long opposed. The report says the judiciary has ordered that LINE, WhatsApp and Tango, three popular apps providing free phone and messaging services, be shut down.
Ukraine's prime minister blamed Russian intelligence for a hacker attack against German government websites, for which a pro-Russian group claimed responsibility. The attack took place before Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk was due to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
President Obama's top telecom regulator issued his strongest hints yet about a pending plan to regulate Internet providers, and judging by reports from the room, he's leaning hard toward the most aggressive proposal on the table. Speaking at CES, the world's largest consumer electronics show, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler took aim at several industry arguments against the use of Title II of the Communications Act to regulate broadband providers.
The Obama administration has been tightlipped about its controversial naming of the North Korean government as the definitive source of the hack that eviscerated Sony Pictures Entertainment late last year. But FBI director James Comey is standing by the bureau’s conclusion, and has offered up a few tiny breadcrumbs of the evidence that led to it.
Pro-Russian hackers have claimed responsibility for a major attack on German government websites.The group -- CyberBerkut -- said it brought down the websites for Germany's parliament and Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
By 2015, the world will have 25 billion smart thermostats, fitness bands, and other Internet-connected, data-spewing devices, according to the Federal Trade Commission. That agency’s chairwoman, Edith Ramirez, devoted her CES 2015 keynote to warnings about the privacy and security risks of the so-called Internet of Things, or IoT.
Monster, which co-designed the original Beats By Dr. Dre headphones, is filing suit against Beats Electronics, the firm acquired by Apple in May and co-founded by musician Dr. Dre and producer Jimmy Iovine. The audio tech company and its CEO, Noel Lee, say in the suit that he and Monster invented the technology behind the Beats By Dr. Dre headphones.
Lyft, maker of the popular ride-sharing app, answered a series of questions about changes to its policies governing employee access to sensitive user data, according to a letter published by the office of Sen. Al Franken. The answers came in the wake of November reports that Uber, Lyft’s better-known and bigger rival, had mishandled customer location data, igniting a controversy about the privacy of ride-sharing apps.
North Korean military's "cyber army" has boosted its numbers to 6,000 troops, the South Korean Defense Ministry said, double Seoul's estimate for the force in 2013, and is working to cause "physical and psychological paralysis" in the South. The new figure, disclosed in a ministry white paper, comes after the United States, South Korea's key ally, imposed new sanctions on North Korea for a cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Federal regulators want to make it easier for people to file complaints and fix problems with a telephone, cable, Internet or radio company. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unveiled a new website that “should help consumers better hold companies accountable,” according to Sen. Bill Nelson (Fla.), the top Democrat on the Commerce Committee.
Google is getting asked to remove more and more links over copyright issues, with requests up 75% year-over-year. Torrent Freak has compiled all of Google's weekly transparency reports into one study that looks at the whole of 2014.
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