Hunter Moore, operator of the now-defunct revenge porn website Is Anyone Up, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. At the completion of the sentence, Moore will be subject to three years supervised release, in which he will be required to log every "computer, computer-related device, screen name, password, e-mail account or ISP" with his probation officer, Motherboard reports.
European Union officials are pressing big U.S. tech companies to free up surveillance access to their user data in the wake of last month’s attacks in Paris, marking a continued shift in the debate over privacy and security within the bloc. Firms including Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google were meeting with a raft of government and law-enforcement officials from the EU and member states including France to discuss deepening their cooperation in fighting terrorism, people familiar with the meetings said.
The United States and China have reached an agreement on guidelines for requesting assistance on cyber crime or other malicious cyber activities, the U.S. Justice Department said. The agreement was reached in talks in Washington among officials including U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Chinese Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun.
Law enforcement agency Europol has shut down almost 1,000 websites selling counterfeit goods and distributing unauthorized copyright-protected material. The 999 websites were removed following the conclusion of Operation In Our Sites (IOS) VI.
China has acknowledged for the first time that the breach of the United States Office of Personnel Management’s computer systems, which the Obama administration said exposed the personal information of more than 21.5 million people, was the work of Chinese hackers. But China insisted that the breach was the result of criminal activity, not a state-sponsored cyberattack.
Google has been "deceptively" collecting and mining school children's personal information, including their Internet searches, according to The Electronic Frontier Foundation. In a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission, the EFF alleges that the "Sync" feature of Google's Chrome Web browser is enabled by default on Chromebooks sold to schools, allowing the Web giant to track and store on its servers "records of every Internet site students visit, every search term they use, the results they click on, videos they look for and watch on YouTube, and their saved passwords."
U.S. investigators are accusing a bitcoin entrepreneur of running a Ponzi scheme that brought in nearly $20 million. Josh Garza, former CEO of GAW Miners, allegedly defrauded customers by promising vastly larger returns than it was capable of providing in an attempt to trick them into signing up, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says.
The Home Depot Inc. has reached a contingent settlement with MasterCard International Inc. over the home improvement giant's massive 2014 data breach. Attorneys representing the financial institutions suing Home Depot over the data breach are unhappy about notices of the potential settlement that were sent to banks, calling them "misleading and coercive."
The Chinese military scaled back its cybertheft of U.S. commercial secrets in the wake of Justice Department indictments of five officers, and the surprising drawdown shows that the law enforcement action had a more significant impact than is commonly assumed, current and former U.S. officials said. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has not substantially reengaged in commercial cyberespionage since then-Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced charges against the officers in May 2014, the officials said.
Ryanair has launched legal proceedings against Google and online travel agent eDreams in the Irish High Court over what it says are misleading adverts for Ryanair flights, the airline said. Ryanair said Google was allowing eDreams to use "misleading subdomain" www.Ryanair.eDreams.com and a web site with branding similar to Ryanair's to sell tickets at higher prices than on Ryanair's own web site.
After a decade of court battles, the Internet entrepreneur who filed the first legal challenge to a type of secret administrative order known as a national security letter revealed the breadth of an FBI demand in 2004 for information about a customer. National security letters, which empower federal investigators to seek certain customer records without court approval or oversight, were significantly expanded as part of the USA Patriot Act after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
At least two U.S. states plan to investigate a breach at Hong Kong-based toymaker VTech Holdings Ltd, which surfaced late last week and exposed data of millions of customers who use a portal for downloading content including children's games. Security experts said the attack, which was disclosed on the crucial Black Friday start of the holiday U.S. shopping season, was noteworthy because it had exposed data of children.
China's Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun is in the United States to take part in the first high-level dialogue on cyber crime between the two countries, state media reported. During his visit, Guo will meet Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, Xinhua state news agency said.
BlackBerry will shut down operations in Pakistan at year's end because demands from the country's Telecommunications Authority would result in a massive invasion of user privacy, the company said. BlackBerry refuses to agree to the Pakistani government's order to monitor BlackBerry Enterprise Services (BES), including encrypted emails and BBM messages sent and received in the country.
A convicted software pirate has been handed an unusual punishment. The man, named only as Jakub F, was told he would be spared having to pay hefty damages as long as a film denouncing piracy he was made to produce got 200,000 views.
The European Union wants to enhance the power of the bloc's national privacy regulators in policing a planned new EU-U.S. data pact after the previous one was struck down by a top EU court on concerns about mass U.S. surveillance. Brussels and Washington are locked in negotiations to forge a new framework enabling data transfers from Europe to the United States, which are otherwise subject to cumbersome and lengthy legal processes under EU data protection law.
Copyright laws don’t shield a major Internet provider from liability for illegal music downloading by its subscribers, according to a ruling in a closely watched case between cable company Cox Communications Inc. and two music publishers. The ruling, by U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady in Alexandria, Va., could open the door to more downloading lawsuits against the cable industry by movie studios and music publishers, according to some legal experts.
VTech, a Chinese company that makes popular electronic toys for kids, had its app store hacked. An "unauthorized party" accessed customer information in a database for VTech's Learning Lodge app store on November 14, the company said in a statement.
The Federal Communications Commission has hired Jonathan Mayer, a rising star in privacy circles, to serve as its technical lead for investigations into telephone, television and Internet service providers. He will work primarily on consumer protection issues, especially those having to do with security and privacy, agency spokeswoman Shannon Gilson confirmed.
Texas halted dating service Lone Star Introductions and others from operating in the state because it said the firms had harassed and threatened clients, the Attorney General's office said. A state district court issued an injunction that calls on the dating service and affiliated dating sites, including eLove Matchmaking, International Dating Ventures and International Introductions, to cease operations in the state.
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