Ad fraud activity is highest on certain browsers made by Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to research by ad fraud detection company FraudLogix. Fraudsters can manipulate consumers’ web browser software for their financial gain by infecting browsers with malicious code and forcing them to load certain webpages.
Ireland's cabinet agreed to join Apple in appealing against a multi-billion-euro back tax demand that the European Commission has slapped on the iPhone maker, despite misgivings among independents who back the fragile coalition. A government spokesman said that following the cabinet's decision, it would ask parliament to endorse the legal challenge.
The Romanian hacker who first revealed that Hillary Clinton used a private email address while she was secretary of state was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison by a U.S. district judge in Alexandria, Va. Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, known online as “Guccifer,” was extradited in 2014 to the United States and pleaded guilty in May to one count each of aggravated identity theft and unauthorized access to a protected computer.
A fast-growing breed of global internet crime is revealing a troubling trend: Some fraudsters are easily infiltrating popular dating sites to fleece people out of their savings, law-enforcement officials say. Cyber-swindlers lift photos of real people from the internet, and use the images to create fictitious profiles on dating sites such as Match.com, part of Match Group Inc. and the dominant brand in the U.S.’s $2.5 billion dating-services industry.
Stolen data obtained from music site Last.fm back in 2012 has surfaced, and it looks like hackers made off with accounts belonging to more than 43 million users. That's according to LeakedSource, a repository for data breaches that obtained a copy of the stolen data. Included in the trove are users' names, email addresses and passwords secured with an aging hashing algorithm called MD5, LeakedSource reported in a blog post.
White nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathizers located mostly in the United States use Twitter with “relative impunity” and often have far more followers than militant Islamists, a study found. Eighteen prominent white nationalist accounts examined in the study, including the American Nazi Party, have seen a sharp increase in Twitter followers to a total of more than 25,000, up from about 3,500 in 2012, according to the study by George Washington University’s Program on Extremism that was seen by Reuters.
InterContinental Hotels Group Plc-owned Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants said an investigation had found a malware attack on servers that processed payment cards used at some of its hotels. The news comes nearly three weeks after a data breach was reported at 20 U.S. hotels operated by HEI Hotels & Resorts for InterContinental, Hyatt Hotels Corp, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc and Marriott International Inc.
The U.S. government plans within weeks to end much of its oversight of the California nonprofit that helps run the internet, a move with broad international support. But recent business deals by the nonprofit are threatening to roil those plans. Under the deals, the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as ICANN, is set to give significant new business to its largest contractor, Verisign Inc., under circumstances that some say show favoritism.
The United States accused the European Union of grabbing revenue intended for U.S. coffers when it ordered Apple Inc. to pay up to $14.5 billion in back taxes, a decision that could come up at an international summit in China next week. "I have been concerned that it reflected an attempt to reach in to the U.S. tax base to tax income that ought to be taxed in the United States," U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said at an event to discuss Washington's position ahead of a meeting of the Group of 20 industrial nations.
Some infrequent, or very lazy, Dropbox customers got messages to reset their passwords this week. The push comes because a cache of login information from a 2012 breach turned up on the Internet underground. The discovery of four files containing details about more than 68 million Dropbox account was first reported by the tech site Motherboard.
SWIFT, the global financial messaging system, disclosed new hacking attacks on its member banks as it pressured them to comply with security procedures instituted after February's high-profile $81 million heist at Bangladesh Bank. In a private letter to clients, -said that new cyber-theft attempts - some of them successful -- have surfaced since June, when it last updated customers on a string of attacks discovered after the attack on the Bangladesh central bank.
FBI Director James Comey warned again about the bureau’s inability to access digital devices because of encryption and said investigators were collecting information about the challenge in preparation for an “adult conversation” next year. Widespread encryption built into smartphones is “making more and more of the room that we are charged to investigate dark,” Comey said in a cybersecurity symposium.
European privacy regulators are investigating messaging service WhatsApp’s plan to share user information including phone numbers with its parent, Facebook Inc., adding to pressure on both sides of the Atlantic over the social media firm’s privacy practices. A European Union body representing the bloc’s 28 national data-protection authorities said that its members were following “with great vigilance” changes to WhatsApp’s privacy policy.
Six U.S. senators have urged President Barack Obama to prioritize cyber crime at this weekend's Group of 20 summit in China, in the wake of the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank, according to a letter obtained by Reuters. In the letter sent to the White House ahead of the Sept. 4-5 summit, Sherrod Brown, a senior Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, and five other Democratic senators say they want the U.S. president to press leaders from the world's 20 biggest economies to commit in joint communiques to a "coordinated strategy to combat cyber-crime at critical financial institutions."
Europe’s antitrust enforcer ordered Ireland to claw back billions from Apple over illegal tax breaks, a move that will ramp up trans-Atlantic tensions over how much global companies should pay to countries where they do business. The decision by Margrethe Vestager, the European Union commissioner for competition, is the culmination of a two-year investigation into whether Ireland gave preferential treatment to Apple, part of a broader crackdown on corporate tax avoidance.
A federal appeals court has dismissed a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission against AT&T for throttling, or slowing data speeds, on millions of customers with unlimited smartphone data plans. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in a decision filed Monday, reversed a lower court's denial of AT&T's motion to dismiss the throttling lawsuit.
Germany's interior minister visited Facebook's offices in Berlin and said it should be more proactive in removing forbidden content from its social network platform. "Facebook should take down racist content or calls for violence from its pages on its own initiative even if it hasn't yet received a complaint," Thomas de Maiziere said.
A new Republican proposal to resolve the long-running fight over taxing internet sales across state lines drew praise from Amazon.com Inc. and House Speaker Paul Ryan, but other retailers and conservative groups remain wary. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.), Judiciary Committee chairman and the draft bill’s author, must persuade conservatives he isn’t pushing a tax increase or a sharp expansion of state power.
The FBI is warning state officials to boost their election security in light of evidence that hackers breached related data systems in two states. In a confidential "flash" alert from its cyber division, first reported by Yahoo News and posted online by others, the FBI says it's investigating the pair of incidents and advising states to scan their systems for specific signs of hacking.
A website scheme run by Ian Hawes, a 25-year-old Maryland man who has no affiliation with Donald Trump or his campaign, has preyed on more than 20,000 unsuspecting donors, collecting more than $1 million in the process. At a glance, his website looks virtually indistinguishable from an official Trump website, both seemingly offering a chance for two to win dinner with the Republican presidential nominee.
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