Apple emphasized its opposition to a court order requiring it to help unlock an iPhone for law enforcement purposes, saying the government’s “methods for achieving its objectives are contrary to the rule of law, the democratic process, and the rights of the American people.” The issue cannot be weighed without taking into account the larger national debate over data privacy concerns, Apple said in a new court filing.
The hactivist group Anonymous is once again targeting Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, calling on its community to “dismantle his campaign.” The group issued a call to arms in a YouTube video, urging hackers to shut down Trump’s websites and expose “what he doesn’t want the public to know” on April 1
Bangladesh's central bank governor resigned over the theft of $81 million from the bank's U.S. account, as details emerged in the Philippines that $30 million of the money was delivered in cash to a casino junket operator in Manila. The rest of the money hackers stole from the Bangladesh Bank's account at the New York Federal Reserve, one of the largest cyber heists in history, went to two casinos, officials told a Philippines Senate hearing into the scandal.
A proposed British law that gives police and spies unprecedented powers to look at the Internet browsing records of everyone in the country will be governed by "the strongest safeguards" against abuse, the interior minister said. Opening a House of Commons debate on the contentious bill, Home Secretary Theresa May said the law would provide "unparalleled openness and transparency" about the authorities' surveillance powers.
A man charged with fatally shooting six people in southwestern Michigan interspersed with his stints as an Uber driver told investigators he was being controlled by the ride-hailing app through his cellphone, police said. According to a police report, Jason Dalton told authorities after the Feb. 20 shootings in and around Kalamazoo that “it feels like it is coming from the phone itself” and told of something “like an artificial presence,” the report said.
It's not just computers and mobile phones that are vulnerable to cyber attack, according to software firm Trend Micro. As more devices are hooked up to the Internet, it could be anything from medical equipment to industrial machinery -- and even sex toys.
Hackers using tactics and tools previously associated with Chinese government-supported computer network intrusions have joined the booming cyber crime industry of ransomware, four security firms that investigated attacks on U.S. companies said. Ransomware, which involves encrypting a target's computer files and then demanding payment to unlock them, has generally been considered the domain of run-of-the-mill cyber criminals.
Silicon Valley’s leading companies -- including Facebook, Google and Snapchat -- are working on their own increased privacy technology as Apple fights the U.S. government over encryption, the Guardian has learned. The projects could antagonize authorities just as much as Apple’s more secure iPhones, which are currently at the center of the San Bernardino shooting investigation.
The U.S. Army is using a new crime reporting application for smart phones called "iWatch Army" at 17 U.S. bases to boost its anti-terrorism and anti-crime efforts, with another 100 military bases likely to follow suit this year, the app's developer said. Omar Leeman, chief executive of CloseWatch Inc, told Reuters the privately-held firm had already gotten inquiries from additional Army bases, the Air Force, and increasingly security-conscious private companies.
Google has been dealt a blow in its ongoing battle with European regulators -- the Internet giant has lost its anti-monopoly appeal in Russia. The Moscow Arbitration court has upheld a previous ruling from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) that found Google had abused its dominant market position and broken anti-competition legislation.
President Barack Obama said that smartphones -- like the iPhone the FBI is trying to force Apple Inc. to help it hack -- can’t be allowed to be "black boxes," inaccessible to the government. The technology industry, he said, should work with the government instead of leaving the issue to Congress.
North Korea denied that it conducted cyber attacks against officials from rival South Korea, calling the South's accusation that it did so a "fabrication." South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers that North Korea had recently stepped up cyber attack efforts against the South and succeeded in hacking the mobile phones of 40 national security officials, according to members of parliament who received a closed-door briefing.
Facebook receives more than one million reports of violations from users every day, according to Monika Bickert, Facebook's head of policy management. Bickert spoke to the fine (and imperfect) line between free speech and hate speech at SXSW's first Online Harassment Summit.
While the Justice Department wages a public fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone, government officials are privately debating how to resolve a prolonged standoff with another technology company, WhatsApp, over access to its popular instant messaging application, officials and others involved in the case said. No decision has been made, but a court fight with WhatsApp, the world’s largest mobile messaging service, would open a new front in the Obama administration’s dispute with Silicon Valley over encryption, security and privacy.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has submitted a plan for ending U.S. oversight of key technical Internet functions in favor of a global multi-stakeholder governance model. The complex new proposals aim to create an oversight body called the "empowered community" for enforcing community powers and include tighter rules for changes to certain bylaws of the organization.
General Motors Co. highlighted a “coordinated disclosure” program it launched earlier this year that invites computer researchers to search for cybersecurity gaps in GM vehicles, websites and software. The effort is an offshoot of so-called bug bounty programs run by companies, including Silicon Valley electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc., that pay researchers to spot software vulnerabilities before outside hackers exploit them.
The Obama administration is planning to publicly blame Iranian hackers for a 2013 cyber attack against a small dam in New York state, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Justice Department has prepared an indictment against the hackers, two of the sources said, and a public announcement could come as soon as next week.
The Federal Communications Commission announced draft privacy rules that would govern how broadband Internet service providers can use and share customer data. The rules proposed Thursday would bar the companies from using customers' data for many purposes without their explicit permission.
The Justice Department filed its latest response to Apple in the fight over iPhone encryption, calling the tech giant's rhetoric in the San Bernardino, California, case "false" and "corrosive" of institutions that safeguard rights. The debate surrounds whether Apple should comply with a court order to help authorities unlock an iPhone used by one of the shooters in last year's San Bernardino attack, which left 14 people dead.
Car-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc. won a loosening of France’s strict transport rules when a court overturned a decree banning car services from showing the locations of available vehicles, a well-known feature of Uber’s app. France’s Conseil d’Etat, the country’s highest administrative court, struck down the part of a government decree that banned the showing of locations of available cars.
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