A U.S. jury handed Arista Networks a major win in a wide-ranging legal battle against Cisco Systems, ruling that Arista owed no damages over Cisco's claims of copyright infringement. The jury in a San Jose, California federal court also found that Arista did not infringe a Cisco patent, a Cisco spokesperson said.
Ringed by tech's elite, President-elect Donald Trump promised to do "anything we can do" to help the industry he often baited during the presidential campaign. About a dozen tech A-listers — Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty and Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, among them — sat down for the two hour meeting with the president-elect to discuss jobs, immigration policy, free trade, cybersecurity and taxes.
The owner of hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison will pay $1.66 million to settle an investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several U.S. states into lax data security and deceptive practices, the company and authorities said. The remainder of a $17.5 million settlement was suspended based on privately-held Ruby Corp.'s inability to pay, the office of New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said in a statement.
Google published a series of eight National Security Letters, in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation secretly requested subscriber information on specific accounts. The letters range from 2010 to 2015, but follow a nearly identical format, identifying a number of accounts and sometimes a specific time frame but providing no evidence or suspicion to justify the request.
Edward Snowden says he's not worried about his future under President-elect Donald Trump. "I'm not worried," Snowden said in an interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who asked if he is worried a Trump presidency could lead to his imprisonment.
One in 25 Americans has been threatened with or faced a vicious form of digital harassment in which explicit images are shared online without the subject's consent, according to a report released by think tank Data & Society and the Center for Innovative Public Health Research. The survey found that young women and people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual are the most affected by this form of cyberharassment.
An examination by The New York Times of the Russian operation to hack the computer network of the Democratic National Committee — based on interviews with dozens of players targeted in the attack, intelligence officials who investigated it and Obama administration officials who deliberated over the best response — reveals a series of missed signals, slow responses and a continuing underestimation of the seriousness of the cyberattack. The DNC's fumbling encounter with the FBI in September 2015 meant the best chance to halt the Russian intrusion was lost, and the failure to grasp the scope of the attacks undercut efforts to minimize their impact.
Cyber attacks targeting the global bank transfer system have succeeded in stealing funds since February’s heist of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank as hackers have become more sophisticated in their tactics, according to a SWIFT official and a previously undisclosed letter the organization sent to banks worldwide. The messaging network in a Nov. 2 letter seen by Reuters warned banks of the escalating threat to their systems, according to the SWIFT letter.
Twitter has reinstated the account of prominent white nationalist Richard B. Spencer after suspending it on Nov. 15. Twitter initially suspended Spencer, who leads the National Policy Institute, amid its larger crackdown against hate speech on the platform.
Messaging services such as Microsoft's Skype and Facebook's WhatsApp face stricter rules on how they handle customer data under new security laws due to be proposed by the European Union, according to a draft document seen by Reuters. The EU executive wants to extend some rules that now only apply to telecom operators to web companies offering calls and messages using the internet, known as "Over-The-Top" services, according to the draft.
Several models of Netgear routers are affected by a publicly disclosed vulnerability that could allow hackers to take them over. An exploit for the vulnerability was published by a researcher who claims that he reported the flaw to Netgear in August, but didn’t hear back.
Arista Networks Inc. used rival Cisco Systems Inc.'s network device technology in its ethernet switches without permission, a U.S. trade judge ruled, handing Cisco yet another win in a sprawling legal battle over patents between the two companies. The judge, MaryJoan McNamara of the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, said that Arista had infringed two patents owned by Cisco.
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter. Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials.
A California judge rejected pimping charges against the operators of a major international website advertising escort services that the state attorney general has called the "world's top online brothel," citing federal free speech laws. California Attorney General Kamala Harris had charged Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer and former owners Michael Lacey and James Larkin, but Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman sided with attorneys for the men and the website in ruling that the speech was allowed under the federal Communications Decency Act.
With public attention focused on the scourge of online ticket scalping, Congress has passed a bill outlawing bots, or computer programs that let users scoop up the best tickets and resell them at inflated prices. The House of Representatives passed the Better Online Ticket Sales Act, or BOTS Act, with bipartisan support, following the bill’s passage a week ago in the Senate. It will now go to the White House for President Obama’s signature.
President Barack Obama has ordered a "deep dive" into the cyberattacks that plagued this year's election, the White House said. Obama has asked the intelligence community to deliver its final report before he leaves office.
The White House said that it raised concerns about China's new cyber security law during a meeting with a Chinese official after the latest round of talks between the two countries on cyber crime. U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice met with Chinese State Councilor Guo Shengkun to discuss the importance "of fully adhering" to an anti-hacking accord signed last year between the China and the United States, National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said.
Technical trade secrets were stolen from the steel production and manufacturing plant design divisions of ThyssenKrupp AG in cyber attacks earlier this year, the German company said. ThyssenKrupp, one of the world's largest steel makers, said it had been targeted by attackers located in southeast Asia engaged in what it said were "organized, highly professional hacker activities."
Berlin is now concerned that Germany will become the next focus of Moscow’s campaign to destabilize Western democracies as national elections approach next year. Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, warned in an interview of “growing evidence for attempts to influence the federal election next year.”
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) said he would lead a charge to investigate Russia's interference in the U.S. election and hacks on the Democratic Party. "I think [Donald] Trump should take a real tough tone with Russia, because if he doesn't, you're going to allow Russia to begin to break apart alliances," Graham told CNN's Manu Raju.
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