Two popular Popcorn Time websites have been taken offline and their alleged operators arrested as part of a police raid that occurred in Denmark. Neither man is accused of actually hosting any content on his website, only using the site to show other users how to access the popular, albeit illegal, movie streaming service.
Target Corp. agreed to reimburse thousands of financial institutions as much as $67 million for costs incurred from a massive 2013 data breach that damaged the retailer’s reputation with shoppers and cut into sales. The agreement, struck with Visa Inc. on behalf of banks and other firms that issue credit and debit cards, comes as the card industry and merchants are moving toward more secure cards that are aimed at stopping such attacks.
The launch of the “.sucks” domain back in March sent a wave of panic through company public relations teams. Despite the furor, more than 6,000 of the domains have been snapped up. While most have been bought for damage limitation purposes and simply parked, inventive companies are exploring more creative uses of .sucks.
China has resumed work on a set of banking cyber security regulations it suspended earlier this year, reviving a potential source of friction with the United States just weeks before Xi Jinping makes his first trip to Washington as China's president, people with knowledge of the matter said. At a meeting in Beijing, officials from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) told representatives from several Western technology companies, including Microsoft, IBM and Cisco Systems, they would seek opinions over the next month on a new version of the bank procurement rules, one of those present at the meeting said.
Computer hackers who breached AshleyMadison.com, a dating website that targets married people, are reportedly beginning to share the site's user data online. The hackers uploaded 9.7 gigabytes of data that appear to include member account details and log-ins for the social networking site, which exhorts prospective users, "Life is short. Have an affair."
The Federal Communications Commission handed out another fine to a company accused of blocking personal Wi-Fi hotspots. Telecom provider Smart City -- which offers Internet services to meeting centers and hotels -- was slapped with a $750,000 penalty.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is reexamining one of the key patents in the battle between Apple and Samsung. Specifically, it is claiming that design patent D618677 — essentially the front of the iPhone 3G — was not sufficiently described by Apple.
In the face of objections raised by prominent tech companies, the Motion Picture Association of America is declaring that it has already accomplished its primary mission in its lawsuit against the anonymous operators of various MovieTube websites. In a letter to the judge, MPAA members report the "defendants shut down their websites" and so they "are no longer seeking preliminary injunctive relief."
A hacker charged with helping to break into least 77,000 computers through the online hacking forum Darkode pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court, prosecutors said. Eric Crocker, 39, of Binghamton, New York, was among 12 people charged in July when the international hacking forum was dismantled by U.S. authorities working with law enforcement around the world.
The U.S. Commerce Department delayed for at least a year its plans to give up oversight of a key component of Internet governance. The department said it would renew its contract with the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for one year.
The United Nations said it expects member states to respect its right to privacy and is assessing how to respond to a report that telecommunications company AT&T Inc. helped the U.S. National Security Agency spy on the world body's communications. The company gave technical assistance to the NSA in carrying out a secret court order allowing wiretapping of all Internet communications at the headquarters of the United Nations, an AT&T customer, the New York Times reported.
The IRS revealed that a criminal syndicate's massive theft of American taxpayer data was much worse than originally thought. In May, the government agency said criminals used a tool on the IRS website to steal the tax forms of 104,000 people. It has revised that number up to 220,000.
Most major U.S. wireless carriers are no longer using controversial identifiers that some researchers call “supercookies,” but their use appears to be extensive overseas. That’s the conclusion of a study by privacy group Access Now, which tested how the technology is being used around the world. Supercookies, formally known as unique identifier headers, are virtually undeletable codes that track mobile users’ browsing habits.
Young livestreaming app Periscope received nearly 1,400 copyright (DMCA) takedown requests during its first three months of existence, and Periscope owner Twitter has so far complied with 71 percent -- or about 994 -- of them.
The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed NSA documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive
A Harvard University student who created a tool that allowed Facebook users to track a person's location using the company's messaging app data got his summer internship offer at the social media giant rescinded after exposing the privacy flaws, a case study published in the Harvard Journal of Technology Science revealed. The study also noted that Khanna was scheduled to start a summer internship at Facebook in software development on June 1, but he received a call days after the app was posted saying he violated the company's user agreement when he used the site's data.
A U.S. appeals court has denied Samsung Electronics' request for a rehearing in a smartphone patent infringement case that awarded rival Apple $548 million. After Samsung had whittled the original damages in the case down from $930 million, the South Korean company had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for a rehearing to reduce the award by another $399 million.
Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, tried to damage rivals in the marketplace by tricking their antivirus software programs into classifying benign files as malicious, according to two former employees. They said the secret campaign targeted Microsoft Corp., AVG Technologies NV, Avast Software and other rivals, fooling some of them into deleting or disabling important files on their customers' PCs.
Limelight Networks Inc. is responsible for infringing rival Akamai Technologies Inc.'s patent for managing Web images and video, a U.S. appeals court ruled, reviving a $45 million verdict against the company. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the District of Columbia said Limelight's control over its customers' use of its services to deliver media content over the Internet meant the company was liable for the infringement.
Google vigilantly defends its trademark, both in and out of court. It’s in no imminent danger of losing its trademark protection. But given the popularity of Google’s brand, and how it has entered mainstream English usage as a verb (to google) and participle (googling), it may only be a matter of time.
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