Twitter's stock briefly spiked after a fake story said the company received a $31 billion buyout offer. The story, which cited "people with knowledge of the situation," appeared on a website made to look like Bloomberg's business news page.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's emails are now a big enough issue that they merit an official 3,600-word fact sheet. The campaign put up its own gigantic explainer, covering why the former secretary of state stored mail on a private server instead of an official State Department account, whether that server violated government transparency policies, and how she decided what to hand over for public release.
Probendi, an Irish software development studio, filed an urgent procedure on June 26 with a court in Milan protesting Apple’s use of the term "iWatch" in its Google ads, according to the tribunal filing obtained by Bloomberg. “Apple has systematically used iWatch wording on Google search engine in order to direct customers to its own website, advertising Apple Watch,” the document says.
Julius Kivimaki was 15 years old when he began a cybercrime spree that accessed 50,700 devices, according to a Finnish court. And earlier this month, Kivimaki, now 17, was found guilty of many instances of "aggravated computer break-ins." But the teenager won't go to prison, or even face a hefty fine.
The nation is still reeling from the revelation that hacks at the Office of Personnel Management exposed the personal data of 22.1 million people. But government audits reveal that the agency isn't alone: Basically the whole government is struggling to protect its computer systems.
The Authors Guild, the American Booksellers Association, the Association of Authors’ Representatives and Authors United said in letters and statements being sent to the Justice Department that “Amazon has used its dominance in ways that we believe harm the interests of America’s readers, impoverish the book industry as a whole, damage the careers of (and generate fear among) many authors, and impede the free flow of ideas in our society.” The requests for an investigation arise out of last year’s bruising battle between Amazon and the publisher Hachette.
Italian cyber-security firm Hacking Team said a government might have been behind a massive hack of its systems and warned that the subsequent leaking of its computer codes could prove a field day for criminals. Unknown hackers downloaded 400GB of data from the firm, which makes surveillance software that allows law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tap into the phones and computers of suspects.
Katherine Archuleta, the embattled director of the Office of Personnel Management, resigned in the wake of two massive hack attacks against her agency that compromised the data of more than 21 million Americans. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Archuleta resigned "of her own volition." He said Archuleta realized that the technology challenges now facing OPM "require a manager with a special set of skills."
The founders of The Pirate Bay, arguably the world’s most visible torrenting site, were acquitted by a Belgian court of charges alleging criminal copyright infringement and abuse of electronic communications. “The Pirate Bay Four,” consisting of Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, have faced an almost comical amount of legal action related to their involvement with the torrenting site, which has proven to be an elusive haven for illegal copyrighted content online.
U.S. government antitrust regulators are looking into claims about whether Apple's treatment of rival streaming music apps is illegal under antitrust law, according to three industry sources. Apple recently launched a new music streaming service, Apple Music. It also provides the App Store platform for competing streaming services including Jango, Spotify, Rhapsody and others.
China's parliament has published a draft cybersecurity law that consolidates Beijing's control over data, with potentially significant consequences for internet service providers and multinational firms doing business in the country. The document strengthens user privacy protection from hackers and data resellers but elevates the government's powers obtain records on and block dissemination of private information deemed illegal under Chinese law.
Uber Technologies is battling efforts by a handful of drivers to sue the ride-hailing company on behalf of the company's entire California fleet. Uber asked a San Francisco federal judge to reject the request by the drivers -- Douglas O'Connor, Thomas Colopy, Matthew Manahan and Elie Gurfinkel -- to try their case as a class-action.
A U.S. appeals court upheld the cancellation of a software patent owned by Versata Inc. that previously led to a $345 million jury verdict against its German rival SAP SE. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the top patent court in the United States, agreed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that the Versata patent was too basic to deserve legal protection.
A group of financially motivated hackers has been infiltrating major corporations and stealing valuable intellectual property, a sign that the motives and techniques of different types of online criminals are starting to blur, researchers at a computer security company planned to announce in a report. Typically, criminal hackers steal passwords and personal data from companies with poor security so that they can break into more valuable sites, or simply sell those passwords and Social Security numbers on the black market. But the report, by Symantec, the computer security company, suggests that a group it calls Morpho is after intellectual property, possibly to sell it to competitors or nation states.
The spoils of hacking the U.S. government became clearer: more than 21 million Social Security numbers, 1.1 million fingerprint records, and 19.7 million forms with data like someone’s mental-health history, the White House said. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management in early June disclosed that it had lost 4.2 million personnel records as part of at least two cyberattacks in 2014.
The United States will likely need to retain its historical oversight authority over the Internet's naming and addressing system for a little longer, a delay that will keep the U.S. government from moving ahead with a plan to give up some of its legacy powers over the Web. The extension could last through next July or even longer, said Larry Strickling, head of the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, before a congressional panel.
Jawbone has filed another legal action against rival fitness tracker company Fitbit -- the third in two months. The newest complaint filed with the International Trade Commission comes three weeks after Fitbit’s IPO and seeks to block the company from importing fitness trackers or their parts.
Lloyd’s, a specialist insurance market, partnered with the Centre for Risk Studies at the University of Cambridge to calculate the potential economic damage of cyber crime that targets the national power grid. Under one scenario, an attack -- orchestrated, the report suggests, by terrorists, “hacktivists” (like, say, Anonymous) or maybe “disgruntled insiders” -- that knocks out 50 of the almost 700 generators serving the northeastern U.S. and causes a blackout of around four days would lead to $243 billion in immediate and tangential economic loss.
A federal judge threw out a $532.9 million jury award against Apple for infringing on three patents of a closely held Texas software company with its iTunes service. U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap ordered a retrial on the damage award after Apple argued the jurors miscalculated the royalties.
Social media operators such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube would have to notify federal authorities of online "terrorist activity," according to the text of a bill approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The types of communication include postings related to "explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction," according to the text.
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