The head of the FBI, battling Apple over unlocking an iPhone used by one of the killers in a December rampage in San Bernardino, Calif., called on Congress to settle the question of when law enforcement officials should get access to citizens’ private data. “The larger question isn’t going to be answered in the courts, and shouldn’t be,” the FBI chief, James B. Comey Jr., told lawmakers at a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee.
Apple Inc. said it asked a federal court to toss out an order requiring the company to help law enforcement unlock a phone used by a shooter in the San Bernardino terror attacks, calling the order “unprecedented” with “no support in the law.” The lengthy court filing was made to U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym, who on Feb. 16 ordered Apple to help investigators bypass a security passcode function on the work iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook, who -- along with his wife -- shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., in December.
Microsoft is “wholeheartedly” siding with Apple in its battle with the FBI over unlocking a terrorist’s iPhone. “We at Microsoft support Apple and will be filing an amicus brief next week,” Microsoft president Brad Smith said.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg understands the need to stamp out hate speech on the world's biggest social network, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff said after a meeting between the two in Berlin. Zuckerberg is on a charm offensive in Germany, where the company he co-founded has faced criticism for months from politicians and regulators over its privacy practices and a slow response to anti-immigrant postings by neo-Nazi sympathizers.
The U.S. government, acknowledging its limited success in combating Islamic extremist messaging, is recruiting tech companies, community organizations and educational groups to take the lead in disrupting online radicalization. The change in strategy, which took a step forward when the Justice Department convened a meeting with social media firms including Facebook Inc, Twitter and Alphabet Inc's Google , comes despite what critics say is scant evidence on the effectiveness of such efforts.
Apple engineers have begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone using methods similar to those now at the center of a court fight in California, according to people close to the company and security experts. If Apple succeeds in upgrading its security — and experts say it almost surely will — the company will create a significant technical challenge for law enforcement agencies, even if the Obama administration wins its fight over access to data stored on an iPhone used by one of the killers in last year’s San Bernardino, Calif., rampage.
A video purportedly made by supporters of the Islamic State makes direct threats against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for combating terrorism on their Internet platforms. The 25-minute propaganda video was released by a group calling itself "the sons of the Caliphate army."
Two security researchers have demonstrated security vulnerabilities in the Nissan Leaf electric car by using mobile management APIs supplied by the car manufacturer. The unsecured APIs allow anyone who knows the VIN number of a car to access non-critical features such as climate control and battery charge management from anywhere across the Internet.
The perpetrators of the 2014 cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment were not activists or disgruntled employees, and likely had attacked other targets in China, India, Japan and Taiwan, according to a coalition of security companies that jointly investigated the Sony case for more than a year. The coalition, organized by security analytics company Novetta, concluded in a report that the hackers were government-backed but it stopped short of endorsing the official U.S. view that North Korea was to blame.
The English High Court has ordered the UK's major internet service providers to block access to five websites that sold counterfeit Cartier goods. Judge Richard Hacon accepted an injunction request that Cartier’s parent company Richemont had lodged against five of the UK’s major ISPs.
Thousands of apps running code built by Chinese Internet giant Baidu have collected and transmitted users' personal information to the company, much of it easily intercepted, researchers say. The apps have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission settled charges that alleged Asus failed to protect consumers as required by federal law. The settlement resolves a complaint that said a 2014 mass compromise of its routers was the result of vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to remotely log in and, depending on user configurations, change security settings or access files stored on connected devices.
Uber has been blocked from using its name in certain parts of Florida after a district court granted an injunction to an events company of the same name. Florida-based Uber Promotions, a company that offers both transport and photography services, was granted its injunction against the taxi app, after the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida partially backed its trademark infringement complaint.
The Justice Department is pursuing court orders to make Apple Inc. help investigators extract data from iPhones in about a dozen undisclosed cases around the country, in disputes similar to the current battle over a terrorist’s locked phone, according to a newly-unsealed court document. The other phones are evidence in cases where prosecutors have sought, as in the San Bernardino, Calif., terror case, to use an 18th-century law called the All Writs Act to compel the company to help them bypass the passcode security feature of phones that may hold evidence, according to a letter from Apple which was unsealed in Brooklyn federal court.
American Airlines has dismissed its lawsuit seeking to break a contract with Gogo Inc. over inflight Internet service. The Gogo contract was for ground-to-air technology; American wanted to switch to ViaSat, which uses newer, satellite-based technology.
With many educators pushing for students to use resources on the Internet with class work, the federal government is now grappling with a stark disparity in access to technology, between students who have high-speed Internet at home and an estimated five million families who are without it and who are struggling to keep up. Members of the Federal Communications Commission are expected to vote next month on repurposing a roughly $2 billion-a-year phone subsidy program, known as Lifeline, to include subsidies for broadband services in low-income homes.
Apple Inc. renewed its defense for why it has refused to help law enforcement unlock the phone of a shooter in the San Bernardino terror attack, and suggested the government form a commission to address the thorny problems posed by the growing use of encryption. In an email to employees from Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook and a series of questions and answers posted on its website, the company urged prosecutors to withdraw their demand that Apple help unlock the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook.
Hiring a lawyer for a parking-ticket appeal is not only a headache, but it can also cost more than the ticket itself. But with the help of a robot made by British programmer Joshua Browder, 19, it costs nothing. Browder's bot handles questions about parking-ticket appeals in the UK. Since launching in late 2015, it has successfully appealed $3 million worth of tickets.
Elon Musk has finally gotten his hands on the Tesla.com domain name that has been owned by a Silicon Valley engineer and virtually unused for 24 years. The Tesla.com domain was owned by a Stu Grossman since 1992 and Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Musk had to settle for the slightly more cumbersome Teslamotors.com.
China has issued broad new rules for online publishing that formalize the government’s already strict control of the Internet and seek to expand the scope of online content stored inside its borders. The new regulations -- jointly issued by the ministry of information technology and the publications regulator -- ban companies with foreign ownership of any kind from engaging in online publishing, though they allow foreign-invested firms to cooperate with Chinese companies on individual projects, as long as they obtain prior permission from authorities.
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