Twitter Inc's lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice over surveillance may not need to proceed following the recent passage of the USA Freedom Act, a U.S. judge said in an order. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California is hearing Twitter's lawsuit seeking permission to publicly disclose more information about requests from U.S. authorities for information about its users.
Federal regulators are warning PayPal over a corporate policy that lets the company contact customers with automated text messages and robo-calls. In a letter to the online payment firm, the Federal Communications Commission said that PayPal is subject to federal guidelines protecting consumers from unwanted calls and text messages -- and that its policy risks running afoul of those rules.
In the months since the Federal Communications Commission voted to regulate the Internet like a public utility, opponents of the new rules have clamored to keep them from taking effect. Now, those opponents were disappointed as a federal judge denied their requests to stay the rules while litigation proceeds against them.
Well-known companies including Facebook Inc. are increasingly bringing trademark-infringement claims in their efforts to block startups and others from using similar names, some trademark lawyers and law professors say. With a very strong trademark like Facebook, “the company has to be very careful about allowing other people to use marks that could be associated with it,” said Siegrun Kane, author of “Kane on Trademark Law: A Practitioner’s Guide.”
Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said that its systems had been attacked, most likely by hackers working on behalf of a country. Kaspersky customer's data is safe, the company said. The sophisticated attack stayed away from user information and focused instead on Kapersky's own systems and intellectual property, the company said.
A cyber attack on the German Bundestag lower house of parliament reported last month is still stealing data and could force officials to spend millions of euros replacing the entire computer system, German media reported. The online edition of news magazine Der Spiegel also quoted what it said were experts from an internal investigation saying there were indications that a Russian intelligence agency had staged the attack.
For the second time in two weeks, Jawbone’s parent company, AliphCom, sued Fitbit. The latest suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claims Fitbit infringed on Jawbone patents, and seeks an injunction to stop Fitbit sales.
Police have arrested 49 suspected members of a cyber crime syndicate in Spain, Poland and Italy who are suspected of stealing million of euros from European bank accounts, Europol said. Police raided 58 locations as part of the investigation into online "phishing" scams used to transfer money from bank accounts across Europe, the Hague-based European police agency said in a statement.
Hackers might have a new way to trick iPhone and iPad users into giving up their Apple passwords. A bug said to be in the Mail application for iPhones and iPads allows a hacker to see a user’s password by mimicking a login window, according to a computer programmer who disclosed the vulnerability in a posting on the coding community GitHub.
While Apple was preparing a splashy introduction for a new service that would stream music over the Internet for a fee, the attorneys general of New York and Connecticut were quietly investigating the Silicon Valley giant’s negotiations with music companies in search of potential antitrust violations. The attorneys general wanted to know whether Apple pressured the music labels -- or whether the labels conspired with Apple and one another -- to withdraw support for popular “freemium” services offered by companies like Spotify in favor of Apple’s paid music subscriptions.
Many businesses don’t count on the British government for cybersecurity, according to a new report. A quarter of British executives surveyed said government has performed poorly in its efforts to protect and educate U.K. firms against the dangers of cyberattacks.
Australian Internet provider iiNet Ltd has urged more than 30,000 customers to change their passwords after claims emerged online that hackers had been attempting to sell personal information stolen from one of the firm's databases. News of the potential data breach at Australia's third-largest web provider first emerged on Twitter, where it was alleged an unnamed hacker was offering to sell a database that included client passwords, home addresses and telephone numbers.
Islamic State militants and their followers have discovered an unnerving new communications and recruiting tool that has stymied U.S. counter-terrorism agencies: instant messaging apps on smartphones that encrypt the texts or destroy them almost immediately. In many cases, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies can't read the messages in real time, or even later with a court order, because the phone companies and the app developers say they can't unlock the coded text and don't retain a record of the exchanges.
The Syrian Electronic Army hacked the official Web site for the U.S. Army, a Twitter account apparently associated with the hacktivist group claimed. The site was down in the afternoon, while screenshots posted on the social network by the group purported to show messages of support for beleaguered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the site earlier in the day.
Michiel Prins and Jobert Abma, are among the four co-founders of a San Francisco tech start-up that aims to become a mediator between companies with cybersecurity issues and hackers like them who are looking to solve problems rather than cause them. They hope their outfit, called HackerOne, can persuade other hackers to responsibly report security flaws, rather than exploit them, and connect those “white hats” with companies willing to pay a bounty for their finds.
Concerned about robberies, scams and killings tied to purchases arranged through Craigslist and other online marketplaces, police and sheriff’s departments nationwide are carving out areas of their stations for people to complete transactions. At least 70 departments in the U.S., from Boca Raton, Fla., to Bedford, Texas, have created such zones, usually in parking lots or lobbies, according to websites that track the programs.
President Barack Obama vowed that the United States would aggressively bolster its cyber defenses, as U.S. officials said the probe into a massive breach of federal government networks has yielded growing signs of a direct Chinese role. Obama stopped short of pointing the finger at Beijing for the recent cyber attack, which threatens to overshadow broader annual U.S.-China talks in Washington this month at a time when tensions are already high over Beijing's pursuit of territorial claims in the South China Sea.
The inspector general at the Office of Personnel Management, which keeps the records and security clearance information for millions of current and retired federal employees, issued a report in November that essentially described the agency’s computer security system as a Chinese hacker’s dream. But by the time the report was published, Chinese hackers had already cleaned out tens of thousands of files on sensitive security clearances, and were preparing for a much broader attack that ultimately obtained detailed personal information on at least four million current and former government employees.
A running battle between authorities in the Indian capital and Uber Technologies Inc. and other app-based ride-hailing services flared, as police stepped up efforts to enforce a ban on the companies’ operations by impounding cars and ticketing drivers. The latest crackdown -- in a country that is one of Uber’s most important markets outside the U.S. -- followed the rejection by Delhi transport officials of radio-taxi license applications by Uber and local rival ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.’s Ola and TaxiForSure units.
The Senate Judiciary Committee sent a bill to the floor that aims to crack down on so-called patent trolls. The committee voted to advance the bill 16-4, clearing a hurdle that proved impassable in the last Congress when senators clashed over the details of the legislation.
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