The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted 14-1 to approve a bill intended to enhance information sharing between private companies and intelligence agencies about cybersecurity threats. The panel's approval cleared the way for a vote in the full Senate on the measure, which would extend some legal liability protection to companies to make it easier for them to share data with the government to help prevent and respond to cyberattacks.
Scores of education technology start-ups, their pockets full from a rush of venture capital, are marketing new digital learning tools directly to teachers -- many are even offering them free to get a foothold in schools. But the new digital tools have also left school district technology directors scrambling to keep track of which companies are collecting students’ information -- and how they are using it.
A British parliamentary committee has recommended that information such as web browsing history and location tracking data be given an extra level of protection against government spying. The recommendation came in a report that reviewed British spying practices revealed by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
A federal judge said Facebook Inc. must face a nationwide class-action lawsuit seeking to force the social media company to provide refunds when children spend their parents' money on its website without permission. U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman in San Jose, California said a class of plaintiffs estimated in the hundreds of thousands may press their claim that Facebook should change how it handles online transactions by minors.
The Associated Press sued the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. The legal action follows repeated requests filed under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act that have gone unfulfilled. They include one request the AP made five years ago and others pending since the summer of 2013.
Twitter will change its rules to prohibit users from posting of "revenge porn" -- intimate, and possibly explicit, images or video posted publicly without consent -- to its social network. "You may not post intimate photos or videos that were taken or distributed without the subject's consent," says a new line in the company's list of community rules.
The U.S. National Security Agency was sued by Wikimedia and other groups challenging one of its mass surveillance programs that they said violates Americans' privacy and makes individuals worldwide less likely to share sensitive information. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Maryland, where the spy agency is based, said the NSA is violating U.S. constitutional protections and the law by tapping into high-capacity cables, switches and routers that move Internet traffic through the United States.
The private e-mail server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton all but certainly lacked the level of security employed by the government and could have been breached fairly easily by determined foreign intelligence services, national security and cyber experts said. In the wake of last week’s revelation that Clinton used a private e-mail account as secretary of state, critics have questioned whether that decision left sensitive government communications vulnerable to hackers.
Rattled by the ongoing Snowden revelations, the European Union is putting finishing touches on a bill that would dramatically change the way U.S. companies that operate in Europe could handle consumer data. The measure would replace an existing patchwork of national data privacy laws.
Dropbox, the popular online file storing system, said it has fixed a security flaw that could have allowed hackers to capture data stored in its service on Android devices via compromised third-party apps.
Last month, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) issued a carefully worded statement urging ICANN -- the overseer of much of the Internet’s fundamental naming and numbering infrastructure -- to take more vigorous action against the “use of domain names for illegal and abusive activities, including those related to IP infringement” (i.e., motion picture piracy). And just a few days ago, the recording industry joined in; a letter from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to ICANN, while expressing the industry’s “disappointment with... ICANN’s treatment of copyright abuse complaints filed to date,” similarly urged ICANN to move more vigorously to ensure that domain name registries and registrars “investigate copyright abuse complaints and respond appropriately.”
The U.S. Senate confirmed former Google Inc executive Michelle Lee to head the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a position that has been vacant for more than two years. President Barack Obama's choice was approved by an unrecorded voice vote in the full Senate, just over a week after the Senate Judiciary Committee gave the nod to her nomination.
The White House’s proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, released on Feb. 27, drew immediate fire from both tech companies and privacy advocates. Now it’s taking heat from closer to home. Speaking at a conference for privacy professionals, Federal Trade Commission officials Jessica Rich and Edith Ramirez said the bill was neither clear or strong enough.
An upstate New York man, who was set to face trial in May for attempting to defraud Facebook Inc and founder Mark Zuckerberg, is missing, his lawyer said. Paul Ceglia, 41, had been required to wear an electronic bracelet before his trial. But Robert Fogg, his lawyer, said Ceglia's ankle bracelet was found at his home after the U.S. Marshals Service was dispatched to check on him.
A 23-year-old British man has been arrested over a cyberattack in which data was stolen from the United States Department of Defense, the police said. The man was detained by detectives from the National Crime Agency of Britain on suspicion of offenses linked to a hacking that took place in June, said a spokesman for the agency, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, in line with official policy.
Microsoft Corp sued Kyocera Corp for patent infringement, alleging the Japanese company's Duraforce, Hydro and Brigadier cell phone lines violate seven Microsoft patents. Microsoft asked a Seattle federal judge to impose a U.S. sales injunction against Kyocera's infringing products, according to the lawsuit.
The CIA embarked on a sweeping restructuring that will bring an end to divisions that have been in place for decades, create 10 new centers that team analysts with operators, and significantly expand the agency’s focus on digital espionage. The plans were unveiled by CIA Director John Brennan to a workforce in which thousands of employees are likely to see changes in which departments they work for, the lines of authority they report to and even where they sit.
Two Vietnamese citizens and a Canadian have been charged with running a massive cyber fraud ring that stole 1 billion email addresses, then sent spam offering knockoff software products, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Court documents did not identify the email companies that were victimized, though the Justice Department described the hacking spree as "one of the largest" data breaches uncovered in U.S. history.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and 19 other Republicans are backing legislation to block the Federal Communications Commission’s new rules on net neutrality. Blackburn's two-page bill would make sure that the FCC's regulations would have "no force of effect."
A week before becoming secretary of state, Hillary Clinton set up a private e-mail system that gave her a high level of control over communications, including the ability to erase messages completely, according to security experts who have examined Internet records. Although Clinton worked hard to secure the private system, her consultants appear to have set it up with a misconfigured encryption system, something that left it vulnerable to hacking, said Alex McGeorge, head of threat intelligence at Immunity Inc., a Miami Beach-based digital security firm.
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