Google has announced an update to its AdWords terms and conditions that will ban advertising for some lending products on Google. The update will go into effect on July 13 this year, at which point the Internet giant will ban payday loans and other predatory financial “services” from its online channels.
Oracle Corp. and Google faced off in a $9 billion copyright retrial, with Oracle accusing Google of stealing programming to become the world's leading smartphone player and Google saying it acted legally as a true innovator. Oracle claims Google's Android smartphone operating system violated its copyright on parts of the Java programming language, while Alphabet Inc.'s Google says it should be able to use Java without paying a fee under the fair-use provision of copyright law.
A bid by the British National Crime Agency to force an alleged cyber hacker to hand over encrypted computer passwords has been thrown out by a judge. The U.S. is attempting to extradite Lauri Love, 31, on charges of hacking into the U.S.British Army, NASA and U.S. Federal Reserve networks.
A top Republican senator demanded answers from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over allegations that the social media giant’s trending news feature omits topics popular with conservatives. “Facebook must answer these serious allegations and hold those responsible to account if there has been political bias in the dissemination of trending news,” said Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) in a statement.
The online marketplace Groupon Inc. has sued IBM Corp., accusing it of infringing a patent related to technology that helps businesses solicit customers based on the customers' locations at a given moment. Groupon filed its lawsuit with the federal court in its hometown of Chicago, two months after IBM accused Groupon of patent infringement in a separate lawsuit.
Federal regulators have begun exploring a question of importance to millions of American consumers: How secure are your smartphones and tablets? The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission asked device makers, the creators of mobile operating systems and the major wireless carriers to provide information about how they address vulnerabilities in smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.
A Chinese court has ruled in favor of Facebook in a trademark dispute centering on the transliteration of the term ‘face book’. The Beijing Higher People’s Court backed the social media website in its dispute with Zhujiang Beverage, based in Zhongshan.
A six-year dispute between Oracle Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google over software copyrights heads back to court for a trial that could lead to billions of dollars in damages and alter the ground rules for modern software. It will be the second trial for Oracle’s complaint that Google used parts of its Java software without permission.
SWIFT rejected allegations by officials in Bangladesh that technicians with the global messaging system made the nation's central bank more vulnerable to hacking before an $81 million cyber heist in February. The comments were in response to a Reuters story that cited Bangladeshi police and a central bank official as saying that SWIFT technicians introduced security holes into the bank's network while connecting SWIFT to Bangladesh's first real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system.
Behind-the-scenes lobbying has become de rigueur in Washington as the battle over encryption shifts to Capitol Hill. It is the next phase of a bitter divide that spilled into public view this year when Apple refused to comply with a court order to help bypass security functions on an encrypted iPhone used by an attacker in the San Bernardino, Calif., mass shooting last year.
Bangladesh's central bank became more vulnerable to hackers when technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new bank transaction system to SWIFT messaging three months before a $81 million cyber heist, Bangladeshi police and a bank official alleged. The technicians introduced the vulnerabilities when they connected SWIFT to Bangladesh's first real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system, said Mohammad Shah Alam, the head of the criminal investigation department of the Bangladesh police who is leading the probe into one of the biggest cyber-heists in the world.
Twitter Inc. cut off U.S. intelligence agencies from access to a service that sifts through the entire output of its social-media postings, the latest example of tension between Silicon Valley and the federal government over terrorism and privacy. The move, which hasn’t been publicly announced, was confirmed by a senior U.S. intelligence official and other people familiar with the matter.
The infamous Romanian hacker known as “Guccifer,” speaking exclusively with Fox News, claimed he easily – and repeatedly – breached former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal email server in early 2013. Marcel Lehel Lazar, who goes by the moniker "Guccifer," claimed he was able to access the server – and provided extensive details about how he did it and what he found – over the course of a half-hour jailhouse interview and a series of recorded phone calls with Fox News.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google and climate control systems maker Honeywell International Inc. have reached an agreement to resolve patents disputes related to Alphabet's Nest Labs, a maker of Internet-connected thermostats.
Los Angeles police investigators obtained a method to open the locked iPhone belonging to the slain wife of "The Shield" actor Michael Jace, according to court papers reviewed by The Los Angeles Times. LAPD detectives found an alternative way to bypass the security features on the white iPhone 5S belonging to April Jace, whom the actor is accused of killing at their South L.A. home in 2014, according to a search warrant filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court
A Brazilian congressional commission recommended a bill that forbids authorities from blocking popular messaging applications, just two days after a judicial order left 100 million Brazilians without Facebook Inc's WhatsApp. A Brazilian judge overturned a 72-hour suspension of the application used by roughly half the population of the South American country, triggering popular outcry over its second judicial suspension in only five months.
Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia's criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters. The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru, Russia's most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft email users, said Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security.
Apple has lost a trademark fight in China, allowing a local company to continue using the term ‘iPhone’ for leather goods that it sells. In a decision handed down by the Beijing Municipal High People’s Court, Xintong Tiandi Technology was told it can continue selling its products using the term.
Two proprietors of a piracy-based Android app store called Applanet have pleaded guilty to copyright-infringement charges, the U.S. justice department has announced. According to the DoJ, Applanet distributed four million copies of apps that would have been worth over $17 million if sold legally.
Facebook's WhatsApp messaging service resumed in Brazil after an appeals court overturned a suspension and many of the application's 100 million users in the country voiced outrage. WhatsApp was cut off in Brazil at 2 p.m. on Monday after a judge in the remote northeastern state of Sergipe ordered Brazil's five main wireless operators to block access to the app for 72 hours.
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