Bathrooms in Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn campaign headquarters feature some unusual decor: Reminders about good password hygiene. One sign hung above a urinal reads “You wouldn’t share your toothbrush, don’t share your password,” Politico reported earlier this week, citing an unnamed source “familiar with the men’s room.”
The Federal Trade Commission is worried that it may no longer be able to regulate companies such as Comcast, Google, and Verizon unless a recent court ruling is overturned. The FTC petitioned the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals for a rehearing in a case involving AT&T’s throttling of unlimited data plans.
Several porn websites have a new tactic to alert their electorate living in California: Blocking them. On the ballot next month is proposition 60, which would require adult performers to use condoms for all videos made in the state.
A top advocacy group for U.S. banks unveiled guidelines to help institutions embrace emerging financial technology. The American Bankers Association (ABA) released its FinTech playbook, standards for banks to follow as they adopt new technologies to expand their services.
Medical-device maker St. Jude Medical Inc said that it planned to set up a medical advisory board focused on cyber-security issues affecting patient care and safety. St. Jude said in a statement that the group, known as the Cyber Security Medical Advisory Board, would provide advice on cyber security standards for medical devices.
A new transparency report Google released disclosed a previously secret FBI inquiry for user data. Google wrote in its biannual report that an FBI gag restriction on the subpoena or national security letter issued in the second half of 2015 had been lifted.
After resisting months of calls from Bernie Sanders and others to release the transcripts of her speeches to Wall Street banks, some of Hillary Clinton's full remarks are apparently now available for all to see, with just weeks until Election Day. We say "apparently" because the transcripts were published by WikiLeaks as part of its ongoing release of emails hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's personal Gmail account.
Vladimir Putin accused the United States of sacrificing good relations with Russia in order to distract voters from domestic problems -- but said he was hopeful ties could be restored after the presidential election. The Russian president made a string of combative comments to reporters, but at the same time assured "American friends and partners" that he had "no intention" of influencing the outcome of the race for the White House.
A year after millions of U.S. merchants began installing equipment at the check-out line to accept credit and debit cards with security chips, the automated teller machine is getting similar technology. The move comes as thieves increasingly target ATMs.
The White House announced millions of dollars in commitments to tech and science-related initiatives. The announcement comes on the same day as a tech conference being hosted by the White House in Pittsburgh. In total, the administration said the value of the funds — from public and private sources — amounted to more than $300 million.
Alphabet unit Google has been given about three more weeks to counter EU antitrust charges that it unfairly demotes rival shopping services in internet search results, a move which could further delay regulators' decision on the six-year-old case. The U.S. technology giant was due to respond to the accusations on Thursday but requested more time to prepare its defense.
Verizon signaled that Yahoo's massive data breach disclosed three weeks ago was a significant event that could halt the telecom giant's $4.8 billion purchase of the tech firm's core business. "I think we have a reasonable basis to believe right now that the impact is material," Verizon General Counsel Craig Silliman said of the breach, speaking to a small group of reporters at a roundtable.
After facing an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks against private and public organizations during his presidency, President Obama thinks about digital threats like a public health crisis, he said in a Wired Magazine interview. Instead of approaching cybersecurity as a traditional battle, he thinks about defending systems as if preparing for a pandemic.
Attackers are hijacking DVRs, satellite antennas and networking devices to conduct mass tests of stolen login credentials, according to research from Akamai Technologies Inc., the latest sign that common household gadgets are being remotely marshaled for malicious activity. The network security provider said it has new evidence that hackers spent several months or more manipulating as many as two million “smart” devices in homes and businesses to test whether stolen usernames and passwords were able to access others’ websites, known as “credential stuffing campaigns.”
Cybersecurity threats are growing quickly for the payment networks of the U.S. financial system, Kansas City Federal Reserve President Esther George said in remarks that did not address the outlook for the U.S. economy. Speaking at a conference in Chicago on the payments system, George warned that the growing threats were undermining public confidence in the system.
U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned whether Apple Inc. should be allowed to keep all of a $399 million patent award it won in a suit that accused rival Samsung Electronics Co. of copying the design of the iPhone. Listening to arguments in Washington, the justices suggested they may return the case to a lower court for more hearings.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest promised that the U.S. would deliver a “proportional” response to Russia’s alleged hacking of American computer systems. In addition to pledging that the U.S. “will ensure that our response is proportional,” Earnest told reporters flying on Air Force One that “it is unlikely that our response would be announced in advance.”
Cyber-security firm Symantec Corp said that a second hacking group has sought to rob banks using fraudulent SWIFT messages, the same approach that yielded $81 million in the high-profile February attack on Bangladesh's central bank. Symantec said that a group dubbed Odinaff has infected 10 to 20 Symantec customers with malware that can be used to hide fraudulent transfer requests made over SWIFT, the messaging system that is a lynchpin of the global financial system.
Head of South Korea's antitrust regulator said the agency will closely examine whether Google's agreements with handset manufacturers on the U.S. firm's Android mobile operating system limits market competition. Jeong Jae-chan, chairman of the Korea Fair Trade Commission, said the agency will re-examine anti-competition issues over Google's policies on the Android platform but did not elaborate on specifics.
ix years after Apple Inc. filed its first lawsuit alleging unauthorized copying of the iPhone, the company will square off at the U.S. Supreme Court against rival Samsung Electronics Co. They will argue over how much of a $399 million patent infringement award Samsung must pay. The fight will be one of the last showdowns between two antagonists that have filed four dozen lawsuits against each other and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on legal fees.
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