Level 3 Communications Inc. has cut off data from reaching a group of servers in China that his company believed was involved in an active hacking attack. The Broomfield, Colo., company is taking an aggressive -- and some say risky approach -- to battling criminal activity. Risky because hackers often hijack legitimate machines to do their dirty work, raising the risk of collateral damage by sidelining a business using the same group of servers.
A Canadian man was fined $120 for using his Apple Watch while driving, Montreal's CTV News reported. That raises a lot of questions about how smartwatches -- and future wearable devices -- fit into a growing number of state "distracted driving" laws that aim to ban texting, some phone calls and other electronic device use while driving.
The United States tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus to attack North Korea's nuclear weapons program five years ago but ultimately failed, according to people familiar with the covert campaign. The operation began in tandem with the now-famous Stuxnet attack that sabotaged Iran's nuclear program in 2009 and 2010 by destroying a thousand or more centrifuges that were enriching uranium.
The convicted mastermind behind the world's largest online narcotics emporium has been sentenced to life in prison without parole by a federal judge. The judge also ordered Ross Ulbricht, 31, to forfeit $184 million.
A new report from the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights says digital security and privacy are essential to maintaining freedom of opinion and expression around the world -- and warns that efforts to weaken security tools in some countries may undermine it everywhere. The report written by special rapporteur David Kaye says that encryption -- the process of digitally scrambling information so that only authorized persons can access it -- and anonymity tools "provide the privacy and security necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age."
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, which oversees the domain name system, last month asked the FTC to look into complaints about the rules for .sucks. However, the FTC tossed the issue back to ICANN in a letter from Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, suggesting that ICANN tighten some of its own rules to address the complaints.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed helping low-income consumers with the cost of broadband Internet access through a program that subsidizes phone bills. Mr. Wheeler’s proposal would expand the government’s Lifeline program by giving low-income households the option to apply the subsidy to broadband Internet access, either wired or wireless.
Financial institutions claim Home Depot's data breach caused total fraud losses "in the billions of dollars." In a consolidated complaint filed May 27 in federal court in Atlanta, more than 100 financial institutions state their case for why The Home Depot Inc. is responsible for the massive data breach that the world's largest home improvement retailer suffered in 2014.
A federal appeals court rejected Apple Inc.'s bid to disqualify an antitrust compliance monitor appointed after the technology company was found liable for conspiring with five publishers to raise e-book prices. While saying some allegations against the monitor Michael Bromwich "give pause," the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said a lower court judge did not abuse her discretion in rejecting Apple's bid to end his two-year appointment early.
Jawbone sued Fitbit in California State Court, accusing its rival of “systematically plundering” confidential information by hiring Jawbone employees who improperly downloaded sensitive materials shortly before leaving. “This case arises out of the clandestine efforts of Fitbit to steal talent, trade secrets and intellectual property from its chief competitor,” lawyers for Jawbone wrote in the complaint.
Free-speech advocates are challenging a ruling against Google Mexico that they say would allow politicians and business moguls to abuse the so-called right to be forgotten by wiping out Internet links that cast them in a negative light. The Google Inc. unit and local digital-rights activists are fighting in court to overturn a recent ruling by Mexico’s Federal Institute for the Access to Information, or IFAI.
A U.S. judge ordered Yahoo Inc. to face a nationwide class-action lawsuit accusing it of illegally intercepting the content of emails sent to Yahoo Mail subscribers from non-Yahoo Mail accounts, and using the information to boost advertising revenue. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California said people who sent emails to or received emails from Yahoo Mail subscribers since Oct. 2, 2011 may sue as a group under the federal Stored Communications Act for alleged privacy violations.
The IRS believes that a major cyber breach that allowed criminals to steal the tax returns of more than 100,000 people originated in Russia, two sources briefed on the data theft tell CNN. The Internal Revenue Service announced that organized crime syndicates used personal data obtained from elsewhere to access tax information, which they then used to file $50 million in fraudulent returns.
Making software available to block advertising online is not illegal, a German court ruled, in a judgment that poses a challenge to the revenues of global media groups. The operation of a “whitelist” of acceptable ads that are allowed through adblocking filters in exchange for a fee -- a business model that media groups have likened to “extortion” -- is also not in breach of the law, Munich’s district court ruled.
The cost of data breaches is rising for companies around the world as sophisticated thieves target valuable financial and medical records, according to a study. The total average cost of a data breach is now $3.8 million, up from $3.5 million a year ago, according to a study by data security research organization Ponemon Institute, paid for by International Business Machines Corp.
The Obama administration sided against Google Inc. and said the U.S. Supreme Court should not hear the company's appeal in a case against Oracle Corp. with wide implications for the technology industry, according to a court filing. The case involves how much copyright protection should extend to the Java programming language.
Thieves used an online service provided by the IRS to gain access to information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, the agency said. The information included tax returns and other tax information on file with the IRS.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Cisco Systems Inc. over a patent infringement claim the tech giant is fighting. On a 6-2 vote, with Justice Stephen Breyer recused from the case, the court threw out a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in favor of Cisco.
Notorious Twitter troll Chuck Johnson was placed in time-out — at least temporarily — and it looks as though the company’s new policy on violent threats was the reason. Twitter suspended Johnson, who has a long history of Internet trolling, for what appears to be a threat against civil rights activist DeRay McKesson.
In recent months, European regulators’ gazes have turned to Facebook, raising questions about whether the social network has learned from the past mistakes of companies like Intel, Microsoft and Google when dealing with Europe’s policy makers and its legal system. And as Facebook runs into an increasing number of regulatory hurdles here, the scrutiny could potentially distract the company from its ambitions of becoming a one-stop shop for Internet messaging, online publishing and digital advertising.
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