Top EU Court to Hear Arguments on 'Right to be Forgotten' Law

The "right to be forgotten" -- or stopping certain web search results from appearing under searches for people's names -- will be debated at the European Union's top court after Alphabet Inc's Google refused requests from four individuals. In May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled that people could ask search engines, such as Google and Microsoft's Bing, to remove inadequate or irrelevant information from web results appearing under searches for people's names - dubbed the "right to be forgotten."

Thailand Pressures Facebook to Remove 131 Pages

Facebook came under increasing pressure from Thailand’s government to remove dozens of pages from its servers, a few weeks after a video that appears to show the country’s new king walking through a shopping mall in a crop top was widely shared on the site. The standoff is the latest sign of a clampdown on online speech by a military junta that seized power in a 2014 coup, and the latest test for Facebook, which has struggled to balance local laws and cultural expectations with its core identity as a network where people are free to share ideas and news.

Law Enforcement Seeks Hackers Behind 'WannaCry' Attack

The global WannaCry "ransomware" cyber attack slowed, with no major infections reported, as global law enforcement agencies shifted their attention to finding the hackers who unleashed it. The attack infected 300,000 machines in 150 countries, said Tom Bossert, U.S. President Donald Trump's homeland security adviser. That would make it one of the fastest-spreading online extortion campaigns in history.

FCC Effort Aims to Stop Fraudulent Tech Support

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking tougher steps to try and stop fraudulent tech support schemes, which are scamming consumers out of millions of dollars.The agency has launched a new effort, dubbed Operation Tech Trap, to end online scams where customers are tricked into believing their computers are infected with a virus and that they must pay a third party to solve the issue.

Governments, Companies Race to Recover from Ransomware Attack

Governments, companies and security experts from China to Britain raced to contain the fallout from an audacious global cyberattack amid fears that if they did not succeed, companies would lose their data unless they met ransom demands. The global efforts came less than a day after malicious software, transmitted via email and stolen from the National Security Agency, targeted vulnerabilities in computer systems in almost 100 countries in one of the largest “ransomware” attacks on record.

Researcher Slows Spread of Ransomware by Registering Domain Name

 A 22-year-old U.K.-based threat-intelligence researcher is credited with stumbling onto a “kill switch” embedded in the code of a virus that created an international cyberattack, which helped slow the computer worm’s spread. As part of his research into stopping viruses like this one, he explained in a blog post, he often snaps up such unregistered malware “control” server domains.

Brooks Brothers Says Payment Card Info Stolen via Malware

U.S. clothing company Brooks Brothers said payment card information of certain customers were compromised at some of its retail locations in the United States and Puerto Rico over 11 months until March. The company said that an unauthorized individual was able to gain access to and install malicious software designed to capture card information on some of its payment processing systems at the locations.

U.K. Hospitals Suffer Ransomware Attack, Divert Emergency Patients

Hospitals across England have been hit by a large-scale cyber-attack, the NHS has confirmed, which has locked staff out of their computers and forced many trusts to divert emergency patients.The IT systems of NHS sites across the country appear to have been simultaneously hit, with a pop-up message demanding a ransom in exchange for access to the PCs.

Sprint, Windstream Sue FCC Over Decision on Business Internet Services

Sprint and Windstream sued the Federal Communications Commission over a decision that will help AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink charge higher prices for certain business Internet services. The FCC last month voted to eliminate price caps for the so-called Business Data Services (BDS) that are offered by incumbent phone companies throughout the country.

Trump Signs Executive Order on Government Cyber Security

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to bolster government's cyber security and protecting the nation's critical infrastructure from cyber attacks, the White House said, marking his first significant action to address what he has called a top priority. The order seeks to improve the network security of U.S. government agencies, from which hackers have pilfered millions of personal records and other forms of sensitive data in recent years.

U.S. Considers Banning Laptops on All Flights from Europe

The Department of Homeland Security plans to ban laptops in the cabins of all flights from Europe to the United States, European security officials told The Daily Beast. Initially a ban on laptops and tablets was applied only to U.S.-bound flights from 10 airports in North Africa and the Middle East, based on U.S. fears that terrorists have found a way to convert laptops into bombs capable of bringing down an airplane. 

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