After recent attacks on the Continent, like the bombings in Brussels and the wave of violence in Paris, governments across the European Union are increasingly pushing for greater access to people’s digital lives. French lawmakers are expected to debate proposals to toughen laws, giving intelligence services greater power to get access to personal data.
A 27-year-old Parma, Ohio, man faces possible criminal charges that accuse him of creating a parody Facebook account that mimicked the Parma Police Department's official page. The page contained what Parma police considered "derogatory" and "inflammatory" information that appeared as though it was coming directly from department officials, Lt. Kevin Riley said.
The FBI is asking businesses and software security experts for emergency assistance in its investigation into a pernicious new type of "ransomware" virus used by hackers for extortion. "We need your help!" the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a confidential "Flash" advisory that was dated March 25 and obtained by Reuters.
France’s data-protection regulator has slapped a fine on Alphabet Inc.’s Google for not implementing Europe’s “right to be forgotten” globally, rejecting a compromise offered by the search firm and setting up a court battle over the scope of the divisive rule. France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, or CNIL, said that the search engine had violated a formal order last year ordering it to apply the new right to be forgotten to “all domain names” of the search engine, including google.com, and fined the company €100,000 ($112,000).
Records for more than 1.5 million customers of the computer security wing of Verizon, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, appeared for sale. This Verizon unit aids large corporations when they’ve been the victims of a hack. Now the company itself has been breached.
U.S. officials said that they are hopeful they will be able to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters without help from Apple Inc, but said the national debate over privacy and encryption must still be resolved. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told a news conference that the Justice Department is "trying to exhaust all investigative tools" to gain information on the San Bernardino attackers, including by using techniques offered by third parties.
A government report says the web portal for health insurance coverage under President Barack Obama's law logged 316 security incidents during a period of about 18 months. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office says none of the attempted cyberattacks appeared to have succeeded in compromising sensitive data, including the personal information of millions of consumers shopping for subsidized health insurance.
Google updated Gmail with two new security improvements. First up, Google has turned on its Safe Browsing service for Gmail users. Next up, Google wants to be even more helpful in fighting state-sponsored attacks.
The Justice Department announced it has indicted seven hackers associated with the Iranian government and charged them with cybercrimes. The crimes include disrupting U.S. banks’ public websites from late 2011 through May 2013 and with breaking into a small dam in Rye, N.Y., in an apparent attempt to stop its operation.
The Obama administration is expected to blame Iranian hackers for a coordinated campaign of cyber attacks in 2012 and 2013 on several U.S. banks and a New York dam, sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters. The Justice Department has prepared an indictment against about a half-dozen Iranians, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
A 50-year-old Chinese man has pleaded guilty to being involved in a plot to hack into systems containing sensitive U.S. military data. Su Bin is believed to have been part of a group targeting data relating to fighter jets, cargo aircraft and weapons.
A purported set of Google's new top-secret version of Glass eyewear that ignited a dramatic eBay bidding war over the weekend appears to have been the real thing. Google quickly pounced on the vendor and got its Glass back.
Israeli company Cellebrite has been appointed by the FBI to find an alternative way to unlock the iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino shootings, according to Israeli newspaper the Yedioth Ahronoth and Reuters. Cellebrite has been developing forensics solutions for law enforcement and intelligence.
A startup cyber security company has uncovered a flaw they say leaves millions of networks and billions of computers vulnerable to attack. Wireless mice from companies like HP, Lenovo, Amazon and Dell use unencrypted signals to communicate with computers.
Uber, the high-flying transportation firm, is releasing a technical map of its computer and communications systems and inviting hackers to find weaknesses in exchange for cash bounties. While so-called "bug bounties" are not new, Uber's move shows how mainstream companies are increasingly relying on independent computer researchers to help them bolster their systems.
Hillary Clinton urged the United States to do more to counter the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on social media, hours after the group took responsibility for a deadly terror attack in Brussels. "We've got to take them on on the Internet," Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
The Justice Department has indicted three current or former members of the so-called Syrian Electronic Army for computer hacking-related conspiracies. Prosecutors allege that two Syrians, 22-year-old Ahmad Umar Agha and 27-year-old Firas Dardar, tricked email users to steal usernames and passwords to compromise government, media and private-sector computer systems.
Bangladesh's central bank has hired a lawyer in the United States for a potential lawsuit against the New York Federal Reserve after unknown hackers stole $81 million from its account with the U.S. bank, an internal report said. In one of the largest cyber heists in history, the hackers breached the computer systems of Bangladesh Bank in early February and succeeded in issuing instructions to the New York Fed to transfer $81 million to accounts in the Philippines.
The Justice Department said that it might no longer need Apple’s assistance to help open an iPhone used by a gunman in last year’s San Bernardino, Calif., mass shooting, leading to a postponement of a key hearing over the issue and potentially sidestepping what has become a bitter clash with the world’s most valuable company. The turn of events came after the Justice Department said in a new court filing that as of Sunday, an outside party had demonstrated a way for the FBI to possibly unlock the phone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the San Bernardino attackers.
The U.S. government was hit by more than 77,000 "cyber incidents" like data thefts or other security breaches in fiscal year 2015, a 10 percent increase over the previous year, according to a White House audit. Part of the uptick stems from federal agencies improving their ability to identify and detect incidents, the annual performance review from the Office and Management and Budget said.
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