A coalition of 28 organizations including the ACLU and the Center for Democracy and Technology signed a letter expressing opposition to the Department of Homeland Security’s proposal to include social media in its review of visa-waiver applicants. The groups argued that such a proposal would not be effective, would cost too much and would impinge on privacy.
A California federal judge knocked down a proposed $100 million settlement in a class-action suit over whether Uber's drivers should be classified as contractors or employees. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen's order rejecting Uber's offer noted that the settlement amount was only 10 percent of what lawyers for the drivers estimate that Uber could owe them and provided only $1 million toward state penalties that could add up to more than $1 billion.
Ransomware dates to the late 1980s, but attacks spiked this year amid the growing use of bitcoin and improved encryption software. Once considered a consumer problem, ransomware has morphed to target entire networks of computers at hospitals, universities and businesses.
Even as a $65 million hacking incident on Bitfinex has triggered calls for audits in certain parts of the bitcoin industry, experts don’t anticipate the investigations will unearth new ways of radically strengthening protection. What’s more telling, they say, is that the community’s willingness to vilify targets while shrugging off the need for industry-wide solutions is a sign it’s doomed to happen again.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has accused T-Mobile USA of violating net neutrality principles with a new "unlimited" data plan that throttles video. The group is weighing whether to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, and the EFF is evaluating a similar offering from Sprint.
Australia's anti-trust regulator said it would not grant the country's three biggest banks interim approval to collectively negotiate with Apple Inc to install their own electronic payments applications on iPhones. Australia's three biggest banks, including the number one lender National Australia Bank (NAB), last month lodged a joint application seeking permission to negotiate as a bloc from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Retailer Eddie Bauer LLC said customers' payment card information used at its stores may have been accessed by unauthorized parties. A malware was used to access the data at its retail stores on various dates between Jan. 2 and July 17, the company said.
Twitter suspended 235,000 accounts that promoted terrorism over the last six months, as part of a continuing effort to keep people from using the social network for extremist causes, the company said. Twitter also said it has expanded its teams that review reported violations, and it now moves faster to suspend accounts and make it harder for suspended users to return to the platform.
The Washington Post reached out to cybersecurity policy experts, including academics, think-tankers and officials from previous Republican and Democratic administrations and asked them evaluate both presidential candidates' cybersecurity policy strategies and whether they were more concerned about Hillary Clinton's private email server or Donald Trump's hacking comments.
A Russian court turned down an appeal from Google in an anti-monopoly case over pre-installed applications on mobile devices running the Android operating system, Interfax news agency reported.
The Obama administration said it will formally shift authority for much of the internet’s governance to a nonprofit multi-stakeholder entity on Oct. 1, a move likely to spark a backlash from parts of Congress. The administration -- as well as many in the high-tech community -- regard the long-planned move as necessary to maintain international support for the internet and prevent a fracturing of its governance.
American firewall providers Cisco and Fortinet have issued warnings and fixes for bugs exposed by the Shadow Brokers, who claimed to have breached the Equation Group, believed to be an NSA operation. Cisco and Fortinet had initially determined there was little of concern in the leak, but after researchers showed how the respective technologies could be exploited, the tech firms have taken action to protect customers.
Russia's state anti-monopoly watchdog FAS said it and Alphabet Inc's Google had failed to reach an out-of-court settlement in a case over Google's Android operating system, Interfax news agency reported. The watchdog last week imposed a 438 million ruble ($6.85 million) fine on Google after ruling last year that the firm was abusing its dominance by requiring the pre-installation of certain applications on mobile devices using Android, following a complaint by Russia's Yandex.
U.S. companies have been slow to sign on to a new international data-transfer agreement with the European Union for reasons that include uncertainty that the terms will survive legal tests in the EU, experts said. The agreement, called Privacy Shield, allows businesses to transfer personal data on European citizens to the U.S. About 40 companies have been certified under the new rules since Aug. 1, when the U.S. Department of Commerce began accepting applications, the agency said.
The government is offering to help states protect the Nov. 8 U.S. election from hacking or other tampering, in the face of allegations by Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump that the system is open to fraud. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told state officials in a phone call that federal cyber security experts could scan for vulnerabilities in voting systems and provide other resources to help protect against infiltration, his office said in a statement.
A data breach at 20 U.S. hotels operated by HEI Hotels & Resorts for Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt and Intercontinental may have divulged payment card data from tens of thousands of food, drink and other transactions, HEI said. The breach follows similar attacks at Hyatt Hotels and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in recent months.
A previously unknown hacking group claims to have broken into a cyberespionage organization linked to the National Security Agency and is offering to sell what it says are U.S. government hacking tools. The group, calling itself the “Shadow Brokers,” said in an internet post that it had access to a “full state sponsor tool set” of cyberweapons.
The European Union is planning to extend telecom rules covering security and confidentiality of communications to web services such as Microsoft's Skype and Facebook's WhatsApp which could restrict how they use encryption. The rules currently only apply to telecoms providers such as Vodafone and Orange.
Australian law enforcement caught 30 Americans in a child pornography investigation using controversial techniques some liken to hacking. The sting is raising controversial questions about jurisdiction in online investigations and the techniques used to catch the Americans involved.
German tech entrepreneur and alleged internet pirate Kim Dotcom will seek a review of a Federal Court decision which rejected his bid to keep hold of millions of dollars in assets held in Hong Kong and New Zealand, his lawyer said. A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled two to one that Dotcom could not recover his assets because by remaining outside the U.S., he was a fugitive, which disentitled him from using the resources to fight his case.
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