South Korea's antitrust regulator said it is looking into whether Google has violated the country's anticompetition laws, acknowledging formal scrutiny of the global internet search company for the first time. The Korea Fair Trade Commission disclosed the investigation in a brief statement, without commenting on the nature of the probe nor any potential antitrust violations.
The hacker who goes by "Guccifer 2.0" is claiming credit for the release of personal cell phone numbers and private email addresses of Democratic House members. The data -- posted to their WordPress blog on Friday night -- also contains the contact information for staff members and campaign aides.
An Ontario Court of Appeals has ruled that your SMS messages are not private and once "sent to the ether" are no longer under your control. Vice has a full write up about the decision that interested parties should read, but the short version is this: SMS messages are like email and not subject to the same protection that voice calls have.
Russia’s national regulator fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 438 million rubles ($6.75 million) for violating antitrust rules on tablets and mobile phones, after reviewing a complaint filed by local search engine Yandex NV last year. The fine was determined as a share of Google Play’s domestic sales, a Federal Anti-Monopoly Service representative said.
Messaging encryption, widely used by Islamist extremists to plan attacks, needs to be fought at international level, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said, and he wants Germany to help him promote a global initiative. He meets his German counterpart, Thomas de Maiziere, on Aug. 23 in Paris and they will discuss a European initiative with a view to launching an international action plan, Cazeneuve said.
Twitter isn’t legally liable for pro-ISIS propaganda tweets that a lawsuit claimed contributed to the death of two Americans, a federal judge ruled. The lawsuit was brought by a plaintiffs’ class-action law firm on behalf of the widows of two U.S. government defense contractors from Florida, Lloyd “Carl” Fields Jr. and James Damon Creach, who were killed in a shooting spree attack in Jordan last November.
In a big win for copyright holders, a federal judge won't change the outcome of a $25 million verdict in favor of BMG Rights Management against Cox Communications. As U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady notes at the beginning of an opinion, "This case presents the question of whether a conduit internet service provider may be held liable for the infringing activity of its subscribers based on the uploading and downloading of copyrighted musical works using BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing network."
Cambodia banned the game Pokemon Go from a former Khmer Rouge torture center and prison after players showed up at the site, now a genocide museum, hunting for the virtual cartoon characters. It is the latest effort to rein in enthusiasts of the game, which has been blamed for a rash of accidents and has prompted safety warnings after players glued to their phones stumbled, were robbed or wandered into dangerous places.
A federal appeals court said the U.S. Federal Communications Commission could not block two states from setting limits on municipal broadband expansion. The decision is a win for private-sector providers of broadband internet.
Judges can’t rely on common sense alone when analyzing the validity of a patent, an appeals court ruled in a loss for Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office review board was wrong to use only “common knowledge and common sense” -- without more to back it up -- to invalidate a patent closely held Arendi S.A.R.L. had asserted against the tech companies, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled.
Eight of the largest U.S. banks are forming a group that seeks to tackle the growing cyberthreat. It includes J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., among others.
Charged with five counts of armed robbery and one count of “brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence,” Lavunte Collins was sentenced in federal court to 13 1/2 years in prison for using Craigslist to lure his victims with the promise of cheap iPhones. The robberies in an outer suburb of Atlanta — and other violent Craigslist-related crimes across the United States, including multiple slayings — have sparked wariness among some Internet bargain hunters and given police department parking lots a second life as a place to buy stuff from strangers.
Apple Inc rejected allegations from Russia's state competition watchdog it may have been involved in fixing prices for iPhones, saying resellers set their own prices. Apple reacted a day after Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) said it had opened a case into the allegations after a consumer had pointed out that identical prices had been set for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus models, which appeared in Russia in October 2015, at 16 major resellers.
Thailand will make places such as the Royal Palace grounds, Buddhist temples and hospitals off limits to players of Nintendo Co Ltd's wildly popular augmented reality game Pokemon Go, the Thai telecoms regulator said. The measures come after the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) met with five telecoms operators to discuss safety measures and the preservation of landmarks, Takorn Tantasith, secretary general of the NBTC, told a news conference.
A hacking group that stole $1 billion from banks in 2015 appears to have hacked Oracle, including a customer service website for Oracles large Micros brand of point-of-sale products. Brian Krebs says “sources close to the investigation” tell him that the hack was as large as 700 other computers.
Iran has banned the Pokémon Go mobile gaming sensation, becoming the first country to do so over security concerns. “Any game that wants to operate nationwide in Iran needs to obtain permission from the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance, and the Pokémon Go app has not yet requested such a permission,” Abolhasan Firouzabadi, the head of Iran’s supreme council of virtual space, told the ISNA news agency.
Facebook rejected claims made by Germany’s state authorities that it was reluctant to co-operate with them on criminal investigations, saying many of the requests it received for user data were incorrectly formulated. Several regional interior ministers have complained that the social media group is hesitant to respond to requests for data and have called on the Federal Justice Ministry to introduce new laws.
A previously undetected, secretive group of hackers has been targeting organizations in Russia, China, and Europe since at least 2011. Antivirus software maker Symantec in a blog post said the group, which it nicknamed "Strider," has developed advanced spyware programs to target "organizations and individuals that would be of interest to a nation state's intelligence services."
U.S. antitrust enforcers filed a complaint against 1-800 Contacts, alleging that the online contact lens seller reached agreements with 14 rivals which would hamper consumers seeking to compare prices. The Federal Trade Commission alleged in an administrative complaint that 1-800 Contacts had reached agreements with 14 other online contact lens retailers that they would not advertise to customers who had searched online for 1-800 Contacts.
The U.S. government said it plans to auction over 2,700 bitcoins that were forfeited during several cases, several of which stemmed from investigations of the online black market known as Silk Road. The bitcoin are worth about $1.6 million, according to the Bitstamp exchange.
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