Facebook has reinstated use of a famous, Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a young girl crying as she runs from napalm during the Vietnam War, after accusations of censorship. The editor-in-chief of Aftenposten, Norway’s largest newspaper, penned an open letter on Friday criticizing Facebook for deleting a post from their page with the iconic image.
One of the more popular cyberattack peddlers just came crashing down. Israeli law enforcement has arrested Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri as part of an FBI investigation into their alleged control of vDOS, one of the most popular paid attack platforms.
Two North Carolina men were arrested for allegedly hacking several senior U.S. government officials as part of a group called "Crackas With Attitude," according to documents filed in federal court. Reuters and other media outlets have reported that hackers who broke into CIA Director John Brennan's personal account in 2015 called themselves by that name.
The White House announced that Greg Touhill, a top cybersecurity official at the Homeland Security Department, will serve as the first federal chief information security officer. "In his new role as Federal CISO, Greg will leverage his considerable experience in managing a range of complex and diverse technical solutions at scale with his strong knowledge of both civilian and military best practices, capabilities, and human capital training, development and retention strategies," White House cyber czar Michael Daniel and federal chief information officer Tony Scott wrote in a blog post about the new appointment, which will be housed in the Office of Management and Budget.
The European Union is set to extend some security rules currently only applicable to telecom operators to web services such as WhatsApp, Skype and Apple's FaceTime, according to a draft proposal seen by Reuters. The European Commission, the EU executive, will unveil a proposed reform of its 15-year-old telecom rules next week in which it will extend some provisions to web companies offering calls and messages over the Internet, so-called "over the top players."
Hyperlinking to unauthorized content may not be an infringement of copyright, according to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), but conditions do apply. The CJEU ruled that it is not an infringement of copyright to hyperlink to work published online without the copyright owner’s consent, as long as the link was not posted for profit and the linker did not have knowledge that the work was originally published illegally.
Ireland's government won strong backing from parliament for its appeal against a 13-billion-euro back tax bill the European Commission ordered it to collect from Apple, following 12 hours of debate. Ireland's fragile coalition overcame initial misgivings from independent members of cabinet to join Apple in fighting the ruling that Ireland granted state aid to the company through undue and selective tax benefit.
Email and password data for more than 68 million Dropbox users is for sale in the darknet marketplace. The data set, which is from a 2012 breach, includes users' email addresses as well as obscured passwords.
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.
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