The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency accused Russian rivals of gathering large amounts of political data in cyber attacks and said it was up to the Kremlin to decide whether it wanted to put it to use ahead of Germany's September elections. Moscow denies it has in any way been involved in cyber attacks on the German political establishment.
Hardly anyone was pleased by the rollback of the broadband privacy rule last month, opening up the possibility of ISPs collecting and selling your browsing data — including, as it turns out, cities whose citizens were left out in the cold. Seattle wasted no time taking matters into their own hands, and the result is a local rule that provides a few of the repealed one’s critical protections.
On the eve of the most consequential French election in decades, the staff of the presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said on that the campaign had been targeted by a “massive and coordinated” hacking operation, one with the potential to destabilize the nation’s democracy before voters go to the polls. The hacking, which involved a dump of campaign documents, including emails and accounting records, emerged hours before a legal prohibition on campaign communications went into effect — a prohibition that makes it extremely difficult for Mr. Macron to mitigate any damaging fallout before the runoff election, in which he faces the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
Attempts at cyber wire fraud globally, via emails purporting to be from trusted business associates, have surged in the last seven months of 2016, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a warning to businesses as it bid to curb such crimes. Fraudsters sought to steal some $5.3 billion through schemes known as business email compromise, the FBI said in a report released by its Internet Crime Complaint Center.
The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into Uber Technologies Inc's use of a software tool that helped its drivers evade local transportation regulators, two sources familiar with the situation said. Uber has acknowledged the software, known as "Greyball," helped it identify and circumvent government officials who were trying to clamp down on Uber in areas where its service had not yet been approved, such as Portland, Oregon.
A small, British Apple Inc . supplier said that it had entered into a formal dispute-resolution process with the Silicon Valley giant and intends to sell a large part of its business amid a patent fight with Apple. The disclosure comes a month after chip-designer Imagination Technologies Group PLC said Apple, its biggest customer, intended to stop using its technology in its devices.
One day after folks found a suspicious e-mail in their inboxes inviting them to view a Google Doc that was in fact phony, Google introduced safer tools for its Android Gmail app. Should a phony link show up in an e-mail, Google will now warn you, saying, "The site you are trying to visit has been identified as a forgery intended to trick you into disclosing financial, personal or other sensitive information."
Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to pay 306 million euros ($334 million) to settle a tax dispute with Italy, the company and the country's tax authority said. Last year Italian tax police alleged that Google had not paid tax on about 1 billion euros of Italian revenue between 2009 and 2013.
The European Commission said on it had accepted commitments by U.S. online retailer Amazon to alter its e-book contracts with publishers to end an EU antitrust investigation. Amazon, the biggest e-book distributor in Europe, proposed to drop some clauses in its contracts so publishers would not be forced to give it terms as good as those for rivals.
Incensed over Apple Inc.’s decision to stop paying it billions of dollars in licensing fees for smartphone chips, Qualcomm Inc. plans to retaliate by asking a U.S. trade agency to ban the imports of iPhones, according to a person familiar with the company’s strategy. Qualcomm is preparing to ask the International Trade Commission to stop the iPhone, which is built in Asia, from entering the country, threatening to block Apple’s iconic product from the American market in advance of its anticipated new model this fall, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.
If someone invites you to edit a file in Google Docs today, don’t open it — it may be spam from a phishing scheme that’s been spreading quickly this afternoon. As detailed on Reddit, the attack sends targets an emailed invitation from someone they may know, takes them to a real Google sign-in screen, then asks them to “continue to Google Docs.”
Peter Sunde, the controversial co-founder of the world's most famous online torrent website Pirate Bay, has launched an anonymous domain registration service in order to help website owners keep their geographic locations and identities away from prying eyes. The Njalla service aims to protect website owners, but in a slightly different way to Whois masking services.
China issued tighter rules for online news portals and network providers, the latest step in President Xi Jinping's push to secure the internet and maintain strict party control over content. Xi has made China's "cyber sovereignty" a top priority in his sweeping campaign to bolster security.
Facebook is planning to hire thousands of people to help review user content following multiple high-profile incidents of people sharing videos of suicide and murder. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and cofounder, said the company will add 3,000 people to its global community operations team to help "review the millions of reports we get every week."
It has only been a bit over 100 days, but the Trump administration is already known for making previously available data harder to find. To make it harder for this administration and future ones to hide data and pull info that's already out there, Senators Gary Peters and Cory Gardner have introduced a bipartisan bill aptly called Preserving Government Data Act of 2017.
Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) are urging Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai not to go forward with his plan to repeal his agency’s net neutrality rules. The two Democrats in a letter to Pai said that taking away net neutrality would spark a public uproar similar to the one last month after Republicans dismantled internet privacy rules.
A privacy group sued the New York Police Department to demand the release of documents related to its use of facial-recognition technology, which rights groups have criticized as discriminatory and lacking in proper oversight. The lawsuit is the latest attempt to compel U.S. law enforcement agencies to disclose more about how they rely on searchable facial-recognition databases in criminal investigations.
Facebook shared research with at least one advertiser that outlined how the tech firm can target teens who feel “worthless” or “insecure,” raising privacy concerns about the data it’s gathering on young users. A 23-page document leaked to The Australian states that Facebook can figure out through posts, photos and online activity when teens feel stressed, anxious or other “moments when young people need a confidence boost.”
A federal court declined to reconsider telecommunications companies’ challenge to Obama-era net neutrality rules, setting the stage for a likely appeal to the Supreme Court. The widely anticipated rejection came just days after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai laid out his proposal for rolling back the net neutrality rules, giving the industry a big win.
U.S. President Donald Trump intends to huddle with top technology executives in early June to discuss ways to modernize the federal government, a White House official confirmed. The gathering is part of a new effort, called the American Technology Council, commissioned by Trump in an executive order.
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