Facebook is confronting complexities with live videos that it may not have anticipated just a few months ago, when the streaming service was dominated by lighter fare such as a Buzzfeed video of an exploding watermelon. Now Facebook must navigate when, if at all, to draw the line if a live video is too graphic, and weigh whether pulling such content is in the company’s best interests if the video is newsworthy.
U.S. President Barack Obama said that the U.S. government has to improve its cyber security practices for the modern age of smart phones and other technology, saying that hackers had targeted the White House. "I am concerned about it, I don't think we have it perfect. We have to do better, we have to learn from mistakes," Obama told a news conference in Madrid.
A revised pact governing EU-U.S. data flows has been approved by European governments. The Privacy Shield agreement replaces the previous accord, called Safe Harbour, that was struck down in October 2015.
PostGhost was a nascent website that archived the tweets of the famous, rich, and important. Twitter emailed the group threatening to shut down their API access for the crime of displaying deleted Tweets. This crime, which could be traced to European data deletion laws and/or a desire to improve the general popularity of the evanescent Tweet, is banned by Twitter’s terms of service.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's own Twitter account broken into. with an attacker (or group) going by the name of "OurMine" posted a tweet that they were "testing your security," followed by a Vine video clip that has since been deleted. In fact, all of the not-Dorsey messages posted to Dorsey's account came from Vine, so it's possible that Vine itself was the attack vector that someone used to gain access to Dorsey's primary Twitter stream.
When the FBI director, James B. Comey, said that his investigators had no “direct evidence” that Hillary Clinton’s email account had been “successfully hacked,” both private experts and federal investigators immediately understood his meaning: It very likely had been breached, but the intruders were far too skilled to leave evidence of their work.
Burger chain Wendy's Co said some customers' payment card data, including card numbers and other crucial information, was stolen in the malware attack that affected about 1,025 of its franchised restaurants in the United States. Hackers stole "cardholder name, credit or debit card number, expiration date, cardholder verification value, and service code," among other data, the company said.
The Senate Commerce Committee will scrutinize the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal for new privacy rules on broadband providers at a hearing. The panel announced that Jon Leibowitz, a former Federal Trade Commission chairman who leads a group pushing back against the proposal, and Peter Swire, a professor who wrote a paper used by opponents to make the case against the plan, will be featured at the hearing.
The European Union approved its first rules on cybersecurity, forcing businesses to strengthen defenses and companies such as Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to report attacks. The European Parliament endorsed legislation that will impose security and reporting obligations on service operators in industries such as banking, energy, transport and health and on digital operators like search engines and online marketplaces.
Even as the FBI said that it would not recommend charging Hillary Clinton for putting her work email on a private server when she was secretary of state, a federal court may have just opened the door to more scrutiny of the Democratic presidential candidate. The D.C. Circuit held in its decision that work email stored privately is still subject to Freedom of Information Act requests.
China-based telecommunications giant Huawei filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in Eastern Texas against T-Mobile US, alleging the wireless provider refused a deal to license Huawei patents and continues to use the technologies. Huawei offered to grant T-Mobile a license to use its 4G patents under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, according to the lawsuit.
A U.S. federal agency issued a security alert over a vulnerability in Symantec’s anti-virus software that allows attackers to remotely control affected computers. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said in an alert issued to the security industry that it was a “very serious event.”
The European Commission proposed stricter rules on the use of virtual currencies and prepaid cards in a bid to reduce anonymous payments and curb the financing of terrorism. Virtual currency exchange platforms will have to increase checks on the identities of people exchanging virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, for real currencies and report suspicious transactions.
The parent company of infidelity dating site Ashley Madison, hit by a devastating hack last year, is now the target of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigation, the new executives seeking to revive its credibility told Reuters. An Ernst & Young report commissioned by Avid Life Media and shared with Reuters confirmed that Avid used computer programs, dubbed fembots, that impersonated real women, striking up conversations with paying male customers.
One of the nation’s largest providers of high-speed internet service wants you pay more to keep them from tracking what you search on the web, a practice that concerns federal officials and privacy experts. AT&T’s plan requires metro Atlanta customers of its high-speed gigabit service to allow the company to track their web searches in exchange for a discounted price.
Facebook is doing its share to remove abusive content from the social network, it said in an apparent rejection of Israeli allegations that it was uncooperative in stemming messages that might spur Palestinian violence. Beset by a 10-month-old surge in Palestinian street attacks, Israel says that Facebook has been used to perpetuate such bloodshed and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightist government is drafting legislation to enable it to order social media sites to remove postings deemed threatening.
An Android-based malware campaign masterminded from China has snared as many as 85 million Android devices and is making the gang behind it an estimated $1m every quarter. Security software and services company Check Point claimed that it has had its eye on the Yingmob gang for five months, describing it as sophisticated, well-staffed and highly profitable.
A hacker has pleaded guilty for his role in the "Celebgate" breach of 2014. Edward Majerczyk faces up to five years in federal prison for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
China’s internet regulator will launch a crackdown on the reporting of news gathered from social media, as part of what the government calls a campaign against fake news and the spreading of rumors. In a statement, the Cyberspace Administration of China said that online media cannot report any news taken from social media sites without approval.
The number of users infected with mobile ransomware is skyrocketing, as hackers try to expand the number of potential victims they can target. Compared with a year ago, almost four times as many users are being attacked by mobile ransomware, security firm Kaspersky Lab said.
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