U.S. tech giants Google and Facebook are among multinationals spending more in Brussels as the European Commission eyes new business regulation after last week handing Apple a 13-billion-euro tax demand. A new annual filing by Google to the EU's Transparency Register showed it spent roughly 15-20 percent more on lobbying European Union officials and lawmakers last year than in 2014, itself some three times as much as in the year before that.
The names of almost 800,000 registered users of porn site Brazzers have been exposed in a data breach. The account details were taken from forums associated with the site on which porn fans discuss favourite scenes and performers.
The classified advertising website Backpage.com is asking the Supreme Court to block a congressional subpoena for documents into the website’s process of screening for sex trafficking ads. Backpage.com claims the court order violates CEO Carl Ferrer’s First Amendment rights.
A survey shows multinational companies remain wary of a new international data-transfer agreement between the U.S. and the European Union, and many are relying on contract provisions that could be invalidated by Europe’s highest court. The survey of 600 privacy professionals, conducted in June and July, found only 34% say they plan to use the agreement, known as Privacy Shield, which allows businesses to transfer personal data on European citizens to the U.S.
Data breach monitoring service LeakedSource has obtained almost 100 million user logins for users of Rambler.ru (a Russian web portal similar to Yahoo), that were apparently obtained in hack of the site in February 2012. Worryingly, users' passwords were not encrypted in any way -- leaving users extremely vulnerable to hackers.
The creator of the McAfee antivirus computer software, John McAfee, has brought a trademark non-infringement lawsuit against technology company Intel. Filed on September 2 at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, McAfee sued Intel over the right to use his name, claiming that it doesn’t infringe Intel’s trademark rights in the McAfee name.
Film studio Warner Brothers has asked Google to remove its own website from search results, saying it violates copyright laws. It also asked the search giant to remove links to legitimate movie streaming websites run by Amazon and Sky, as well as the film database IMDB.
Technology, media, pharmaceutical and other companies, along with major corporate lobbying groups, filed legal briefs in support of a Microsoft Corp. lawsuit that aims to strike down a law preventing companies from telling customers the government is seeking their data. The filings show broad support for Microsoft and the technology industry in its latest high-profile clash with the U.S. Justice Department over digital privacy and surveillance.
In August 2011, multiple servers used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel were infected with malware that gave an unknown intruder almost unfettered access. Now, the five-year-old breach investigation got its first big break when federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing a South Florida computer programmer of carrying out the attack.
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.
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