The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion seeking to compel Apple Inc. to comply with a judge's order to unlock the encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, portraying the tech giant's refusal as a "marketing strategy." In response, a senior Apple executive, speaking with reporters on condition of anonymity, characterized the Justice Department's filing as an effort to argue its case in the media before the company has a chance to respond.
Twitter has notified 10,000 users that their email addresses and phone numbers may have been exposed due to a bug in the website's password recovery feature. "Any user that we find to have exploited the bug to access another account’s information will be permanently suspended, and we will also be engaging law enforcement as appropriate so they may conduct a thorough investigation and bring charges as warranted," Twitter said in a blog post.
A senior U.S. lawmaker expressed a new willingness to support legislation establishing ground rules for when technology firms should grant authorities access to their products, after Apple Inc. said it would fight a court order to unlock an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino rampage. Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that the "complex issues" raised by the Apple case, as well as the prevalence of strongly encrypted devices and communications, "will ultimately need to be resolved by Congress, the administration and industry, rather than the courts alone."
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid a $17,000 ransom in bitcoins to a hacker who seized control of the hospital's computer systems and would give back access only when the money was paid, the hospital's chief executive said. The assault on Hollywood Presbyterian occurred Feb. 5, when hackers using malware infected the institution's computers, preventing hospital staff from being able to communicate from those devices, said CEO Allen Stefanek.
A newly declassified report by the National Security Agency’s inspector general suggests that the government is receiving far less data from Americans’ international Internet communications than privacy advocates have long suspected. The report indicates that when the NSA conducts Internet surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act, companies that operate the Internet are probably turning over just emails to, from or about the NSA’s foreign targets -- not all the data crossing their switches, as the critics had presumed.
Any student data collected through Google’s suite of educational products should be “opt in” by default, according to Sen. Al Franken. The privacy-minded senator commended Google's cooperation in responding last week to a long list of questions about the company’s educational offerings. But the Minnesota Democrat still wants more details.
Former White House national security adviser Tom Donilon and former IBM chief executive Sam Palmisano will lead a new commission to strengthen U.S. cyber defenses over the next decade, the White House said. President Barack Obama set up the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity this month and sought $19 billion for cyber security across government in his annual budget proposal, a boost of $5 billion over the previous year.
A federal appeals court upheld Apple Inc.'s $450 million settlement of claims that it harmed consumers by conspiring with five publishers to raise e-book prices. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected a challenge by an e-books purchaser to the fairness, reasonableness and adequacy of the settlement, which won approval from U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in November 2014.
A federal judge has ordered Apple to help the government unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters who carried out the Dec. 2. San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist attacks after the government said that Apple failed to provide assistance voluntarily. The Justice Department sought the order “in the hopes of gaining crucial evidence” about the shooting rampage, which killed 14 people and injured 22.
A Southern California hospital fell victim to hackers -- offering a glimpse at one of many digital threats facing health care. Criminals reportedly infected Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center computers with ransomware -- malware that cryptographically locks devices. The thieves have demanded 9,000 bitcoins, the equivalent of $3.65 million, to unlock the machines, according to sources who spoke with Los Angeles television stations.
Jeb Bush's campaign never bothered to register JebBush.com and has been using Jeb2016.com instead. For the first several months of the campaign, that didn't hurt the campaign; as of late September, JebBush.com was benevolently blank, according to the internet archive site the Wayback Machine. But sometime last fall, someone appears to have noticed an opportunity, and arranged for the Australian company that owns the domain name to redirect visitors to DonaldJTrump.com.
In the early years of the Obama administration, the United States developed an elaborate plan for a cyberattack on Iran in case the diplomatic effort to limit its nuclear program failed and led to a military conflict, according to a forthcoming documentary film and interviews with military and intelligence officials involved in the effort. The plan, code named Nitro Zeus, was designed to disable Iran’s air defenses, communications systems and key parts of its power grid, and was shelved, at least for the foreseeable future, after the nuclear deal struck between Iran and six other nations last summer was fulfilled.
American Airlines filed a lawsuit in district court against Gogo, its current Internet provider for in-flight Wi-Fi, saying it notified Gogo that it has found a faster Internet service. In the lawsuit, American says its contract with Gogo allows it to renegotiate or terminate its agreement if another company other than Gogo offers a better service.
Tuesday mornings, Monika Bickert and her team of content cops meet to discuss ways to remove hate speech and violent posts from Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social network. Recently, the group added a new tool to the mix: “counter speech.” Counter speakers seek to discredit extremist views with posts, images and videos of their own.
The FCC is expected to craft regulations in the coming months on how broadband providers handle sensitive customer data -- and advocates on both sides of the issue are gearing up to make their case. Consumer advocates are hoping the commission drafts stricter rules for how companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable treat customers’ information.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has won a U.K. court case filed by online mapping company Streetmap. EU Ltd, which alleged the U.S. technology company was skewing search results in favor of its own mapping product, the companies said. The U.K. High Court ruled against Streetmap, saying Google didn’t abuse its dominant position and that its mapping product doesn’t harm competition.
Haptic technology company Immersion has filed suit against Apple, claiming that the newest iPhones and Apple Watches infringe on its patents. The suit, filed in federal district court in Delaware, alleges that Apple’s “3D touch” and “force touch” features infringe on Immersion’s patents for providing feedback when the screen of an electronic device is touched.
French prosecutors asked a court to penalize two executives of Uber Technologies Inc. with fines and a ban on running companies, but declined to ask for prison time during the second day of a high-profile trial against the car-hailing company. In a criminal court in Paris’s Palais de Justice, Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, head of Uber’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Thibaud Simphal, its chief in France, face six charges on counts including illicit storage of personal data and operating a service that connects passengers with car-service drivers who have no professional licenses.
A French court ruled that a case against social networking company Facebook over a painting of a nude woman can be tried in France, rejecting Facebook's argument that it is governed by Californian law. Facebook blocked the account of a French professor and art lover after he uploaded a picture of Gustave Courbet’s 1866 canvas 'The Origin of the World', which shows a close-up view of female genitals.
GCHQ is operating within the law when it hacks into computers and smart phones, a security tribunal has ruled. Campaigners Privacy International have lost a legal challenge claiming the spying post's hacking operations are too intrusive and break European law.
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