A Chinese businessman who pleaded guilty in March to conspiring to hack into the computer networks of Boeing and other major U.S. defense contractors was sentenced to nearly four years in prison, prosecutors said. Su Bin, 51, was charged with taking part in a years-long scheme by Chinese military officers to obtain sensitive military information.
The growing threat of hacking and a duty to protect data more stringently will accelerate demand for cyber insurance in Europe, insurer Allianz said, as it launched its first product aimed at Germany's small-to-medium-sized manufacturers. Cyber insurance has been slow to take off in Europe with fewer than one in 10 firms having taken out a policy, said Christopher Lohmann, head of the region Central and Eastern Europe at Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality.
China's spies hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2010 until 2013 -- and American government officials tried to cover it up, according to a Congressional report. According to congressional investigators, the Chinese government hacked into 12 computers and 10 backroom servers at the FDIC, including the incredibly sensitive personal computers of the agency's top officials: the FDIC chairman, his chief of staff, and the general counsel.
A Democratic U.S. senator asked the software developer behind Nintendo Co Ltd's Pokemon GO to clarify the mobile game's data privacy protections, amid concerns the augmented reality hit was unnecessarily collecting vast swaths of sensitive user data. Senator Al Franken of Minnesota sent a letter to Niantic Chief Executive John Hanke asking what user data Pokemon GO collects, how the data is used and with what third party service providers that data may be shared.
Authorities in Stillwater, Minn., have rescued five sex-trafficking victims aged 13 through 17 in recent months by combing through classified ads for “escorts” on Backpage.com. With more than 20,000 escort ads appearing on Backpage this year for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area alone, officials figure they miss many trafficked children.
Alphabet Inc's Google has been given an extra 6 weeks to early September to respond to EU charges that it uses its dominant Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals, EU antitrust regulators said. The U.S. technology giant found itself under fire in April as the European Commission said its requirement that mobile phone manufacturers pre-install Google Search and the Google Chrome browser in order to get access to other Google apps may harm consumers and competition.
A $1 billion lawsuit alleges that Facebook is liable for Hamas attacks in Israel and the West Bank that were allegedly facilitated in part by the group’s use of the social network. “For years, Hamas, its leaders, spokesmen, and members have openly maintained and used official Facebook accounts with little or no interference,” the lawsuit says.
The Federal Trade Commission said Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. Home Entertainment didn’t require users of YouTube, including the very popular channel PewDiePie, to properly highlight they were paid to promote a Warner Bros. videogame. The FTC said Warner Bros. paid an advertising agency to create a so-called “YouTube influencer campaign” for its 2014 game “Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor.”
Flamboyant German tech entrepreneur Kim Dotcom is planning to relaunch file-sharing website Megaupload in January 2017, five years after the U.S. government took down the site accusing it of piracy. Megaupload, founded in 2005, had boasted of having more than 150 million registered users and 50 million daily visitors.
A senior executive of Alphabet's Google unit said that the company was notifying customers of 4,000 state-sponsored cyber attacks per month. Speaking at a Fortune magazine tech conference in Aspen, Colorado, Google senior vice president and Alphabet board member Diane Greene mentioned the figure while touting Google's security prowess.
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.
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