The security firm Cloudflare disclosed that a long-running bug in its security systems may have leaked information, including potentially personal information, from thousands of sites including Uber, Fitbit and OKCupid. The service had been leaking information for months in a way that allowed search engines to pick it up, according to Cloudflare.
Yahoo revealed extensive details about its cybersecurity measures for the first time in a letter sent to senators after the company suffered two massive breaches of user data in recent years. April Boyd, Yahoo's head of Public Policy, wrote the letter and many of the same accounts were affected by both breaches, which occurred in 2013 and 2014.
The newly appointed Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is moving to scale back the implementation of sweeping privacy rules for Internet providers passed last year. Chairman Ajit Pai asked the FCC to hit pause on the rollout of one part of those rules that was scheduled to go into effect next week.
The corruption scandal rocking South Korea has given Qualcomm Inc. another way to challenge a big antitrust fine threatening its most profitable business. Jay Y. Lee, heir to the top job at Samsung Group, was arrested on allegations he was involved in paying billions of won to a friend of South Korean President Park Geun-hye, in exchange for government support of his succession.
Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car business, Waymo, sued Uber Technologies Inc. for stealing trade secrets in the development of autonomous cars, accelerating an already-heated rivalry over the nascent technology. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco federal court, accuses several employees of Otto, a self-driving startup Uber acquired in July, of lifting technical information from Google’s autonomous car project.
Video game publisher ZeniMax Media Inc, which earlier this month won a $500 million verdict against Facebook Inc.'s Oculus virtual reality unit and its founders for unauthorized copying of computer code, has asked a federal judge to block Oculus from using the code in its products.
Online fashion marketplace Poshmark Inc. said hackers targeted its systems and used stolen usernames and passwords to drain funds from some of its user accounts in recent days. The Redwood City, Calif., company, which functions as an online consignment shop, said several hundred active accounts were compromised and the site plans to reimburse anyone who was affected.
A cryptographic technology long central to internet security has been dealt a knockout blow by researchers at Google and a Dutch research institute. In a paper, the researchers demonstrate an attack on an algorithm called SHA-1, which has been widely used over the past 20 years to verify the authenticity of digital documents.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google. and subsidiary Jigsaw launched a new technology to help news organizations and online platforms identify abusive comments on their websites. The technology, called Perspective, will review comments and score them based on how similar they are to comments people said were "toxic" or likely to make them leave a conversation.
Internet providers with fewer than 250,000 subscribers will not be required to disclose information on network performance, fees, and data caps, thanks to a rule change from the newly Republican-controlled FCC. The rule passed in a 2-1 vote, with Republicans saying the reporting requirements unfairly burdened smaller ISPs with additional work.
Amazon is resisting an effort by Arkansas prosecutors to obtain potential recordings from a slaying suspect's Amazon Echo smart speaker, saying authorities haven't established that their investigation is more important than a customer's privacy rights. Amazon said prosecutors hadn't established the need for Amazon to violate its customers' constitutional rights.
Federal regulators said that they will allow certain new wireless devices to use a portion of unlicensed airwaves now used largely for Wi-Fi, a move aimed at ending a long-running dispute between industries. The Federal Communications Commission said it would open up currently-unlicensed airwaves for use by new 4G LTE wireless devices known as LTE-U (for “unlicensed”).
In their open-plan office overlooking a major thoroughfare in Brussels, an 11-person team known as East Stratcom, serves as Europe’s front line against this onslaught of fake news. Created by the European Union to address “Russia’s ongoing disinformation campaigns,” the team — composed of diplomats, bureaucrats and former journalists — tracks down reports to determine whether they are fake.
White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing was among the six staffers who were dismissed from the White House last week after being unable to pass an FBI background check, according to sources. Lansing previously led the digital department for the Republican National Committee.
Technology advocacy groups and trade associations representing companies such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft criticized a suggestion from the head of the Department of Homeland Security that foreign nationals should provide social media passwords to enter the U.S. “This proposal would enable border officials to invade people’s privacy by examining years of private emails, texts, and messages,” the groups wrote in a letter.
It looks like Apple has finally picked up one of the last remaining pieces of internet property linked to one of its key service brands: the iPhone and Mac giant has quietly taken over ownership of iCloud.net, TechCrunch has learned. Subsequent to that, the small-time Asian social network that existed at the site has informed its users that it will be shutting down by the end of this month.
Faced with unknown costs related to two huge data breaches, Yahoo and Verizon Communications announced Tuesday that they had agreed to shave $350 million from the price that Verizon would pay to buy Yahoo’s core internet businesses. The two companies said they would also share liabilities related to the breaches, which occurred in 2013 and 2014 but were only disclosed last year after the deal was announced.
Apple has accused the European Commission of unfair treatment in a high-profile $13.7 billion tax case. The tech giant accused the European Union's competition watchdog of breaching its "right to good administration," according to the Financial Times, which obtained a copy of Apple's complaint.
European Union data protection watchdogs said they were still concerned about the privacy settings of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system despite the U.S. company announcing changes to the installation process. The watchdogs, a group made up of the EU's 28 authorities responsible for enforcing data protection law, wrote to Microsoft last year expressing concerns about the default installation settings of Windows 10 and users' apparent lack of control over the company's processing of their data.
Kim Dotcom, the founder of file-sharing website Megaupload, can be legally extradited to the US, according to New Zealand’s High Court. Importantly, however, the High Court held that copyright infringement via digitally communicating protected works to the public is not a criminal offence in New Zealand.
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