President Donald Trump took aim at information-technology outsourcing companies, as he ordered a review of H-1B visa programs to favor more skilled and highly paid applicants. Trump blasted “widespread abuse” of the visas for skilled foreign workers before signing an executive order directing federal agencies to find ways of reorienting the program.
Uber Technologies sees opportunities to expand in the Europe Union, despite withdrawing its ride-hailing service from Denmark and facing the possibility of an EU court ruling that could mean tougher rules for the firm, an Uber executive said. Danes hailed their last rides on the UberPOP app before enforcement of a new law making taxi meters mandatory for drivers and imposing other requirements that meant Uber could no longer operate there.
Gamers beware: Hackers offering free virtual trinkets don’t care about your passwords or personal data, but your employer’s most closely guarded secrets. An employee at a Japanese high-tech company learned this the hard way, duped by a fake giveaway for 300 magic stones for the smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons. Cyber criminals are stepping up these kind of schemes to break into corporate networks in Japan, according to FireEye Inc., a security software provider.
Google has reached a settlement with Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) agency in the antitrust case the Russian search rival Yandex had originally filed, claiming Google had violated local competition rules. The case revolved around how Google had required handset makers to pre-load their devices with Google apps and services in order to also gain access the Google Play Store application.
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is warning guests that hackers may have accessed their payment card information at locations throughout the country. The company hired a cyber security company to look into payment card processing systems.
The search for a suspect who police believe randomly shot a man walking along a Cleveland-area sidewalk before posting a video of the fatal shooting on Facebook broadened nationwide as officials acknowledged that they did not know where the man was and announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. In the minute-long shooting video, a driver pulls up to an older man on a sidewalk. The driver asks the man to say a person’s name, then pulls out a gun and shoots him.
Microsoft has confirmed that most of the NSA's hacking tools designed to target Windows have been patched. A spokesperson said in an email in the middle of the night that the company has "investigated and confirmed that the exploits disclosed by the Shadow Brokers have already been addressed by previous updates to our supported products."
Facebook is ramping up efforts to kill off sham accounts used to spread fake news, pass along malware and falsely boost page rankings, activity that can distort its advertisers' views of user interest. The company is in the process of rolling out changes to its technical systems to make it harder to create fake accounts, its security team said in in a blog post.
For eight months, the hacker group known as Shadow Brokers has trickled out an intermittent drip of highly classified NSA data. Now, just when it seemed like that trove of secrets might be exhausted, the group has spilled a new batch. The latest dump appears to show that the NSA has penetrated deep into the finance infrastructure of the Middle East — a revelation that could create new scandals for the world’s most well-resourced spy agency.
Microsoft Corp. said it had received at least a thousand surveillance requests from the U.S. government that sought user content for foreign intelligence purposes during the first half of 2016. The amount, shared in Microsoft's biannual transparency report, was more than double what the company said it received under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the preceding six-month interval, and was the highest the company has listed since 2011, when it began tracking such government surveillance orders.
Facebook is at risk of a criminal prosecution in Britain for refusing to remove potentially illegal terrorist and child pornography content despite being told it was on the site, The Times can reveal. The social media company failed to take down dozens of images and videos that were “flagged” to its moderators, including one showing an Islamic State beheading, several violent paedophilic cartoons, a video of an apparent sexual assault on a child and propaganda posters glorifying recent terrorist attacks in London and Egypt.
Facebook said it is taking action against tens of thousands of fake accounts in France as the social network giant seeks to demonstrate it is doing more to halt the spread of spam as well as fake news, hoaxes and misinformation. The Silicon Valley-based company is under intense pressure as governments across Europe threaten new laws unless Facebook moves quickly to remove extremist propaganda or other content illegal under existing regulation.
A judge denied bail to a Canadian man accused in a massive hack of Yahoo emails. Karim Baratov, 22, has alleged ties to Russian agents and access to significant amounts of cash, making him a serious flight risk if freed on bail, a prosecutor said.
The U.S. International Trade Commission said it has launched a patent infringement investigation of television set-top boxes and other components that Arris International supplies to Comcast Corp. and DirecTV for their Xfinity and Genie customers.
Cyber security breaches erode companies' share prices permanently, with financials the worst hit, a study issued by IT consultant CGI and Oxford Economics has found. Severe cyber security breaches, such as those having legal or regulatory consequences, involve the loss of hundreds of thousands of records and hurt the firm's brand, caused share prices to fall on average 1.8 percent on a permanent basis, the analysis of 65 companies affected since 2013 globally has found.
BlackBerry said it has been awarded a preliminary $814.9 million in royalty overpayments made to Qualcomm. Last April, BlackBerry and Qualcomm entered discussions to settle the dispute and analyze an existing "agreement to cap certain royalties applied to payments made by BlackBerry under a license agreement between the two parties."
Yahoo! Inc. failed to keep financial and humanitarian commitments made a decade ago after it admitted helping the Chinese government find dissidents who were later jailed, according to a lawsuit against the web company. The suit brought by seven previously imprisoned Chinese dissidents and the wife of an eighth seeks to enforce promises made when the Sunnyvale, California-based company settled a 2007 lawsuit in San Francisco federal court.
The Federal Trade Commission announced that it has successfully obtained a preliminary injunction that forbids a Florida man from telling unsuspecting consumers that the FTC hired him to conduct tech support. Daniel Croft made up a bogus FTC press release in hopes of convincing people that another company had been shut down by the agency for installing malicious software on PCs, and that his own nonsense companies — PC Guru Tech Support and Elite Tech Support — had been hired to help fix the situation.
A federal regulator’s plan to roll back Obama-era net-neutrality rules is sparking another battle that is expected to rival or exceed the epic political clashes over internet regulation in recent years. The dispute intensified when Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai held a closed-door meeting with telecommunications groups to sketch out his ideas for rolling back the 2015 net-neutrality rules, one of the Obama administration’s signature regulatory changes.
Facebook's European regulator said it hoped to reach a deal in the coming months with the U.S. company to allow it to use data gleaned from the WhatsApp messaging service it acquired in 2014. The European Union's 28 data protection authorities last year requested that WhatsApp stop sharing users' data with Facebook due to questions over the validity of users' consent.
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