A Nevada man pleaded guilty to making Facebook threats to kill a federal judge in Phoenix. Jason Andre Willis, 41, who is in federal custody, pleaded guilty to a felony count of threatening interstate communications.
A vocal group of activists and people in media circles have charged that the News Genius Web annotation tool from the startup Genius can be used to harass and abuse people online. By effectively duplicating and attaching a line-by-line comments section to any article, with or without the consent of the author, they say that Genius “silences writers.”
Just as the feds back down from one fight to unlock an Apple iPhone linked to terrorist activity, another is ongoing. It revolves around another man suspected of links to terrorist group ISIS, though this time the alleged perp, Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, is alive.
A Chinese junket operator in Manila said that two high-rollers from Beijing and Macau were responsible for bringing $81 million stolen by hackers from Bangladesh's central bank into the Philippines. Kim Wong, a long-time Chinese resident of the Philippines, denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of who masterminded one of world's biggest cyber heists, but vowed to give back a small portion of the money with him.
Oracle is seeking as much as $9.3 billion in damages in a long-running copyright lawsuit against Google over its use of Java in Android, court filings show. Oracle sued Google six years ago, claiming the search giant needs a license to use parts of the Java platform in Google's market-leading mobile OS.
The Justice Department is abandoning its bid to force Apple to help it unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack because investigators have found a way in without the tech giant’s assistance, prosecutors wrote in a court filing. In a three-sentence filing, prosecutors wrote they had “now successfully accessed the data” stored on Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone, and they consequently no longer needed Apple’s court-ordered help getting in.
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.
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