Police in Thailand arrested a student pro-democracy activist for sharing a story about the country's new king that was posted on Facebook by the Thai-language service of the BBC. The arrest was apparently the first under the country's tough lese majeste law since King Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun took the throne, succeeding his late father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
In two letters sent to AT&T and Verizon, the FCC writes that sponsored data plans from the telecom giants are a threat to net neutrality. Under the programs, customers can use select services without having them contribute to a data cap — a practice known as zero rating.
A presidential commission made 16 urgent recommendations to improve the nation’s cybersecurity, including creating a nutritional-type label to help consumers shop wisely and appointing a new international ambassador on the subject — weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The release of the 100-page report follows the worst hacking of U.S. government systems in history and accusations by the Obama administration that Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election by hacking Democrats.
Online credit companies and paperless lenders would be able to get federal charters to do their business nationwide under a plan outlined by a U.S. banking regulator. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the main regulator for federal banks, said it hoped offering a charter for "fintech" companies would spur innovation in the banking sector.
Hackers have stolen more than 2 billion roubles ($31.3 million) from banks' correspondent accounts in Russian central bank, the central bank official Artyom Sychyov told a briefing. He added that hackers attempted to stole around 5 billion roubles.
A botnet that has served up phishing attacks and at least 17 different malware families to victims for much of this decade has been taken down in a coordinated effort by an international group of law enforcement agencies and security firms. Law enforcement officials seized command and control servers and took control of more than 800,000 Internet domains used by the botnet, dubbed "Avalanche," which has been in operation in some form since at least late 2009.
Hidden code that tracked visitors to a child sex abuse image website has been discovered by its members. The script in the site targeted visitors using the anonymising web browser Tor and sent information about their computers to a server in France.
Bitcoin exchange Coinbase has been ordered to surrender records on customers' trades in the virtual currency to the IRS as part of a tax-avoidance probe. A federal judge in San Francisco granted the agency's request for a so-called "John Doe" summons to compel Coinbase to identify all users in the U.S. who conducted transactions between 2012 and 2015.
State-sponsored hackers have conducted a series of destructive attacks on Saudi Arabia over the last two weeks, erasing data and wreaking havoc in the computer banks of the agency running the country’s airports and hitting five additional targets, according to two people familiar with an investigation into the breach. Saudi Arabia said after inquiries from Bloomberg News that “several” government agencies were targeted in attacks that came from outside the kingdom, according to state media.
More than a dozen tech groups extended an olive branch to Donald Trump, penning a joint letter to the president-elect congratulating him on his win and offering recommendations for working with the tech sector. “We stand ready to help your Administration tap into 21st century innovation to achieve prosperity for the nation,” read the letter from a coalition of 17 tech trade groups.
A last-ditch effort in the Senate to block or delay rule changes that would expand the U.S. government's hacking powers failed, despite concerns the changes would jeopardize the privacy rights of innocent Americans and risk possible abuse by the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden attempted three times to delay the changes, which will allow U.S. judges to be able to issue search warrants that give the FBI the authority to remotely access computers in any jurisdiction, potentially even overseas.
Malicious software disguised as legitimate apps for Android smartphones and tablets has seized control of more than one million Google accounts since August, according to research from security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. The apps had innocent-sounding names, such as StopWatch, Perfect Cleaner and Wi-Fi Enhancer, but they exploited known flaws in older versions of the Android operating system to take control of devices and install other apps and ad-spewing software without permission.
The Internet address system gatekeeper, independent after a split from the U.S. government, is now in a phase where "the grassroots are in charge," its top executive said. Goran Marby, president and chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, said in an interview that nothing has changed for people using the internet after the expiration of its contract with the U.S. Commerce Department.
The Internet Archive, a nonprofit that saves copies of old web pages, is creating a backup of its database in Canada, in response to the election of Donald Trump. During his campaign, Trump sparked fear among free speech advocates with threats to close up “certain areas” of the internet in an effort to prevent terrorists from communicating or recruiting online.
Germany's spy chief has warned that Russian hackers are pelting his country with disinformation that could undermine the democratic process, echoing concerns already voiced by his domestic intelligence counterpart. Bruno Kahl, the new head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence service, compared the campaign in an interview to misleading reports on social media before Donald Trump's election as United States president.
Uber asserted that it was helping to bolster Europe’s digital economy as part of its defense in a long-awaited hearing to decide how the popular ride-hailing service should be able to operate across the region. The case at the European Court of Justice comes as the American company continues to push aggressively into overseas markets, often butting heads with local lawmakers and taxi associations that say the company flouts transportation and competition rules.
The “snooper’s charter” bill extending the reach of state surveillance in Britain was given royal assent and became law as signatures on a petition calling for it to be repealed passed the 130,000 mark. The home secretary, Amber Rudd, hailed the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 as “world-leading legislation” that provided “unprecedented transparency and substantial privacy protection.”
President-elect Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated tweet that millions of people voted illegally for Democratic rival Hillary Clinton is fueling renewed calls that Twitter delete his account. Trump alleged in a tweet that he “won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally” even though there isn’t any evidence that widespread voter fraud occurred during the election.
Germany has become an important test case globally for how Facebook polices what may be published online, and how it should respond to inappropriate and illegal content. Such steps in Germany are part of a growing push around the world to regulate what users are allowed to post online.
Dozens of California cities looking to shore up revenues are flirting with a new idea -- taxing video streaming services like Netflix, a step that could make up for lost tax revenue from growing numbers of cord-cutters. The move in Pasadena, with a population of about 140,000, has drawn consternation from technology companies and consumers who worry that it could be copied across the state.
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