A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of Twitter posts. Al-Watan online daily said that religious police in charge of monitoring social networks found more than 600 tweets denying the existence of God, ridiculing Quranic verses, accusing all prophets of lies and saying their teachings fueled hostilities.
The United States has set out limits to its use of data collected in bulk about European citizens after a new information-sharing pact was agreed this month, according to documents seen by Reuters. A clear explanation of what information could be used for -- preventing its "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary" use -- was a key condition of the new Privacy Shield framework that enables firms to easily transfer personal data to the United States.
The IRS announced that during a 9-month review of last year's cyber attack, it discovered that an additional 390,000 taxpayer accounts were potentially accessed during the breach. Those accounts are in addition to the confirmed access of and initial 114,000 last May and the subsequent 220,000 that were added in August. For those keeping track at home, today's announcement brings the total to over 700,000 affected taxpayers.
A U.S. appeals court overturned a $120 million jury verdict against Samsung, finally handing the South Korean smartphone maker a significant win in its longstanding patent feud with top rival Apple. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., said Samsung Electronics Co Ltd did not infringe Apple's "quick links" patent, and that two other patents covering the iPhone's slide-to-unlock and auto-correct features were invalid.
A December power outage in Ukraine affecting 225,000 customers was the result of a cyber attack, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said, marking the first time the U.S. government officially recognized the blackout as caused by a malicious hack. Security experts had already widely concluded that the downing of utilities in western Ukraine on December 23 was due to an attack, which is believed to be the first known successful cyber intrusion to knock a power grid offline.
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.
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