Apple’s iBooks Store and iTunes Movies were shut down in China, just six months after they were started there. Initially, Apple apparently had the government’s approval to introduce the services. But then a regulator, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, asserted its authority and demanded the closings, according to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Microsoft and Google say they have recently reached an agreement under which they will drop pending regulatory complaints against one another across the globe. The pair have also agreed that they will try to work among themselves to settle any future issues before running to regulators.
Plaintiffs suing Ashley Madison, a popular online dating service, over a computer hacking attack that stole the personal data of millions of users will have to be publicly identified to proceed with the case, a federal judge ruled. Forty-two plaintiffs seeking to represent a class of users of the website, which markets itself to people seeking sexual affairs outside of their marriages or committed relationships, sought to pursue litigation anonymously, as John Does, “to reduce the risk of potentially catastrophic personal and professional consequences that could befall them and their families,” according to court papers.
Bangladesh's central bank was vulnerable to hackers because it did not have a firewall and used second-hand, $10 switches to network computers connected to the SWIFT global payment network, an investigator into one of the world's biggest cyber heists said. The shortcomings made it easier for hackers to break into the system earlier this year and attempt to siphon off nearly $1 billion using the bank's SWIFT credentials, said Mohammad Shah Alam, head of the Forensic Training Institute of the Bangladesh police's criminal investigation department.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and four months he has in his job. According to figures from the FBI and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Comey's annual salary as of January 2015 was $183,300. Without a raise or bonus, Comey will make $1.34 million over the remainder of his job.
A revived push by China to cleanse cyberspace swept up a quickly rising Internet celebrity, highlighting efforts to temper the explosive popularity of online stars. Papi Jiang, a 29-year-old graduate student in drama, surged to Chinese Internet fame with her lightning-fast, squeaky-voiced monologues riffing on relationships, beauty and other concerns of China’s urban young women.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said it is studying mobile carriers' use of decades-old communications technology with known security bugs after "60 Minutes" reported it could be remotely exploited to spy on callers. The CBS news program "60 Minutes" on Sunday showed German computer scientist Karsten Nohl remotely spy on a mobile phone used by U.S. Representative Ted Lieu.
While U.S. heads the list of countries with the largest number of cybersquatting cases at 847, India notched a total of 59 domain name complainant cases in 2015, registering a growth of nearly 60%. Domestic companies including Bharti AirtelBSE, Voltas, Tata Sons, Wipro, Aircel and Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation are among those who filed cybersquatting complaints in 2015.
The United States does not want to change the substance of a data transfer pact agreed in February with the European Commission, a senior official said, after EU privacy watchdogs voiced concerns over elements of the deal. Stefan Selig, U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade, said the United States would evaluate the EU regulators' opinion very carefully, but would be wary of reopening the agreement.
Apple has agreed to pay $24.9 million to settle a years-long lawsuit alleging that its Siri voice technology violated a patent licensed to a Dallas company by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. The lawsuit alleges Siri was developed at Rensselaer before Apple introduced it in 2011 with the iPhone 4S.
European officials charged Google with breaking the region’s competition rules by favoring some of its services on the popular Android mobile software over those of its rivals. As part of the latest charges -- officially known as a statement of objections -- Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s competition chief, said that Google had unfairly promoted its own services, like mobile search and its Chrome web browser, with cellphone manufacturers, limiting how rival companies could operate in the fast-growing smartphone software market.
Browsing the web on Google.com can infect your computer with malware and connect you to thieves who steal passwords and credit card information, the company said in a transparency report. Google deemed its search engine site "partially dangerous."
Canada’s competition bureau announced it has closed its investigation into Google for potentially exploiting its dominance in search and advertising. The agency opened the case in 2013 and, three years later, concluded that Google’s practices don’t exclude Canadian rivals.
Apple has been asked by Chinese authorities within the last two years to hand over its source code but refused to do so, the company's top lawyer told U.S. lawmakers at a hearing. Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell made the statement in response to a line of attack from law enforcement officials who have attempted to portray Apple as complicit in handing over information to Chinese authorities for business reasons while refusing to cooperate with U.S. requests for access to private data in criminal investigations.
Google and Oracle were unable to reach a settlement that would have stopped a closely watched case involving the Android operating system from going to retrial next month. Both Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Oracle chief executive Safra Catz were present at the meeting, which, according to Reuters, was court-ordered.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen took to the Web trying to explain how it was that Canadian officials came to possess the keys needed to decrypt consumer messages sent via BlackBerry’s servers. Chen tried to draw a fine line, painting the company as both willing to comply with legal orders but still dedicated to protecting the government and business data that remains the bread and butter of the struggling mobile company.
The use of strong encryption is preventing state and local police across the U.S. from fully investigating murders, sex offenses against children, drug cases and child pornography, according to law enforcement officials who will testify before a House panel. The officials plan to come to the hearing armed with emotional pleas, evidence of stalled investigations and statistics to back up their arguments that companies including Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are making criminal investigations increasingly difficult by using encryption, which scrambles data with a code that can be unlocked only with a special key.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge by a group of authors who contend that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library violates copyright law. The high court left in place an October 2015 ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York in favor of Google.
Google could soon find itself facing more antitrust charges in Europe, this time over the way it runs the Android mobile platform. The company has been under investigation for years now, on several fronts.
The Department of Homeland Security just issued a warning that recommends removing QuickTime for Windows after cybersecurity firm Trend Micro reported finding two "critical vulnerabilities" in the program, which Apple will no longer be providing security updates for. Software often stills works after a company ends support, but users are left at risk because newly discovered security problems won't be fixed.
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