The U.S. government advised Lenovo Group Ltd customers to remove a "Superfish," a program pre-installed on some Lenovo laptops, saying it makes users vulnerable to cyberattacks. The Department of Homeland Security said in an alert that the program makes users vulnerable to a type of cyberattack known as SSL spoofing, in which remote attackers can read encrypted web traffic, redirect traffic from official websites to spoofs, and perform other attacks.
Russia's competition watchdog said it had opened a case against Google Inc. over alleged violation of anti-monopoly law, following a complaint from Russia's biggest search site Yandex NV over Google's mobile platform. Yandex said it had asked the watchdog to investigate whether Google was abusing the dominance of its Android smartphone operating system, restricting competing apps.
A lawyer who clicked on an email attachment lost $289,000 to hackers who likely installed a virus that recorded his keystrokes. The lawyer said he received an email with an address ending in usps.gov and, thinking he had received a legitimate email from the U.S. Postal Service, he clicked on the attachment.
Security vendor AVG has spotted a malicious program that fakes the sequence a user sees when they shut off their Android phone, giving it freedom to move around on the device and steal data. When someone presses the power button on a device, a fake dialog box is shown. The malware then mimics the shutdown animation and appears to be off, AVG’s mobile malware research team said in a blog post.
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) identified North Korea as the source of the recent cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment after analyzing the software used in the intrusion, NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers said. Speaking to a Canadian security conference, Rogers explained that the discovery was part of the agency's efforts to develop software to counter cyberattacks.
Three months after the State Department confirmed hackers breached its unclassified email system, the government still hasn’t been able to evict them from the department’s network, according to three people familiar with the investigation. Each time investigators find a hacker tool and block it, these people said, the intruders tweak it slightly to attempt to sneak past defenses.
The operator of a well-known "revenge porn" website has agreed to plead guilty to hacking and identity theft charges, federal prosecutors in California announced. Under the terms of the deal, Hunter Moore, 28, admitted that he operated the website and and that he paid for nude images that were stolen from victims.
A report in the United Kingdom’s parliament is calling for the government to regulate broadband Internet service like a public utility. The recommendation is one of many policy proposals to speed up U.K. fluency with the Web, alongside efforts to roll out new infrastructure, beef up cyber defenses and foster more digital education.
China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's largest PC maker, had pre-installed a virus-like software on laptops that makes the devices more vulnerable to hacking, cybersecurity experts said. Users reported as early as last June that a program called Superfish pre-installed by Lenovo on consumer laptops was 'adware', or software that automatically displays adverts.
Russia’s most popular search engine Yandex said it asked the state antimonopoly watchdog to investigate Google for possibly violating Russian antitrust law. The request comes amid an ongoing antitrust investigation of Google GOOGL -1.00% by the European Commission for similar concerns raised by other European competitors.
Gordon Bremer didn't invent Bluetooth 2.0. In fact, as he admitted on the stand in an East Texas federal court, he hadn't even read the specification for it until 2007 -- three years after it was on the market. Despite that, Bremer may be getting paid a hefty royalty by Samsung, after a jury ruled that the Korean electronics company infringed Bremer's patents
A Russian accused of helping mastermind the largest international data breach ever prosecuted in the United States pleaded not guilty, following his extradition from the Netherlands, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Vladimir Drinkman, 34, was accused of conspiring with at least four other men to install "sniffers" to comb through computer networks of financial companies, payment processors and retailers around the world, and then to store and eventually sell data they collected.
Israel may be known as a technology and cyber security powerhouse, but a sophisticated Arab-led hacking campaign has been relatively successful in penetrating several important Israeli sites and possibly extracting data from them. The campaign, dubbed operation Arid Viper, has been gleaning high-level information from Israelis by using phishing emails disguised with pornographic movies, according to a report by security software firm Trend Micro.
BlackBerry ratcheted up its fight with Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products LLC, filing a new complaint that alleges that the company's new keyboard case for the iPhone also infringes on its patents. Last March, the Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone pioneer won an injunction against the first iteration of the Typo case made for some of Apple's iPhone devices.
The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives. That long-sought and closely guarded ability was part of a cluster of spying programs discovered by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security software maker that has exposed a series of Western cyberespionage operations.
As part of a one-on-one interview with Re/code on a wide range of technology topics, Kara Swisher asked President Obama whether American citizens should be entitled to control their data, just as the president controls his own private conversations through encrypted email. It’s an issue that’s increasingly important as people move their conversations and payments to newer, more secure alternatives on mobile phones.
A wave of new regulation across Europe is roiling the $37 billion global online gambling industry and driving a spate of deal talks in recent weeks. The U.K.’s 888 Holdings Ltd. , one of the sector’s biggest competitors, said that it had ended talks over a proposed £720 million ($1.1 billion) takeover by U.K. bookmaker William Hill PLC. 888, based in Gibraltar, said talks broke down after a key shareholder couldn’t agree on price.
The Alibaba Group’s dust-up with one of its Chinese regulators may have settled down, but the Securities and Exchange Commission is still interested in more information about the dispute. Alibaba disclosed that it had received a request from the SEC for more information about the clash with China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce.
Facebook said it has finally decided how to handle the photos and friend requests of its deceased users. The decision was applauded by estate planners -- especially because it gets around the issue of needing a password to get into people's accounts, yet it doesn't solve all the problems around online information after death.
President Barack Obama asked U.S. executives for closer cooperation in defending against hackers after high-profile attacks on companies like Sony that exposed weaknesses in America's cyber defenses. Speaking at Stanford University, Obama told Silicon Valley and financial services CEOs that they needed to share more information more quickly both with each other and with his administration.
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