Theresa May has called on internet companies to do more to tackle the spread of extremist material in the wake of the London Bridge terror attack as a former cabinet minister said online giants must “face up to their responsibilities.” The Prime Minister said said that there must now be greater regulation of the internet and that existing online “safe spaces” that allow terrorism to “breed” must be eradicated.
Essential hasn’t yet shipped its first smartphone, but Andy Rubin’s new company has already come upon its first trademark dispute. Spigen, a fairly well-known smartphone case and accessory maker, has sent Essential a cease and desist letter demanding that Rubin’s latest business stop using the “Essential” mark.
Password manager and single sign-on provider OneLogin has been hacked. In a brief blog post, the company's chief security officer Alvaro Hoyos said that it was aware of "unauthorized access to OneLogin data in our US data region," and that it had reached out to customers.
The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years. The new questions, part of an effort to tighten vetting of would-be visitors to the United States, was approved on May 23 by the Office of Management and Budget despite criticism from a range of education officials and academic groups during a public comment period.
Twitter has failed to meet European standards for removing hate speech online, figures show, as pressure mounts, particularly on the Continent, for tech companies to do more to tackle such harmful material. The battle between European policy makers and tech companies over what should be permitted online has pitted freedom of speech campaigners against those who say hate speech — in whatever form — has no place on the internet.
EU antitrust regulators aim to slap a hefty fine on Alphabet unit Google over its shopping service before the summer break in August, two people familiar with the matter said, setting the stage for two other cases involving the U.S. company. The European Commission's decision will come after a seven-year investigation into the world's most popular internet search engine triggered by scores of complaints from both U.S. and European rivals.
Shifting from his previous blanket denials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year to help the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump. While Mr. Putin continued to deny any state role, his comments to reporters in St. Petersburg were a departure from the Kremlin’s previous position: that Russia had played no role whatsoever in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and that, after Mr. Trump’s victory, the country had become the victim of anti-Russia hysteria among crestfallen Democrats.
Silk Road darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht has lost his appeal of the life-behind-bars sentence he received for founding and running an online marketplace that made illegal drug purchases virtually a mouse click away. A federal appeals court rejected arguments by defense lawyers that Ulbricht was deprived of his constitutional right to a fair trial and subjected to a "demonstrably unreasonable" punishment.
A court in Germany denied a mother’s request for Facebook to give her access to her deceased daughter’s account. A Berlin appeals court ruled that private electronic communications were meant to be seen only by certain people.
China's top cyber authority said it is not targeting foreign firms with a controversial national cyber law. More than 50 overseas companies and business groups have lobbied against the law, which includes stringent data storage and surveillance requirements.
Military officials and private security researchers are examining the dangers of jumping to conclusions in the murky world of cyber attack and defense, as tools once only available to government intelligence services find their way into the computer criminal underground. Security experts refer to this as "the attribution problem", using technical evidence to assign blame for cyber attacks in order to take appropriate legal and political responses.
The U.S. administration has held another round of high-level talks with European Union counterparts on possibly banning laptop computers from cabins on all international flights. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly called European transport commissioner Violeta Bulc and home affairs commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos as part of ongoing talks with the EU about security concerns that would merit such a measure, said representatives for both sides.
North Korea’s hacking capabilities are improving quickly, according to cybersecurity experts in South Korea. The country’s cyber-attacking operation, South Korean officials believe, comprises six groups and 1,300 hackers, with a dozen supporting organizations of 5,000 more hackers.
A group that published hacking tools that security experts believe were stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency said it plans to sell a new batch of stolen code in July to customers willing to pay more than $22,000 for it. The Shadow Brokers group said in an announcement on the internet that it has not yet determined what files will be in the collection.
The U.S. Supreme Court said companies give up their patent rights when they sell an item, in a ruling that puts new limits on businesses’ ability to prevent their products from being resold at a discount. The ruling is a defeat for Lexmark International Inc., which was trying to stop refurbished versions of its printer cartridges from undercutting its U.S. sales.
While corporations and government agencies around the world are training their staff to think twice before opening anything sent by email, hackers have already moved on to a new kind of attack, targeting social media accounts, where people are more likely to be trusting.Pentagon officials are increasingly worried that state-backed hackers are using social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook to break into Defense Department computer networks.
The United States might ban laptops from aircraft cabins on all flights into and out of the country as part of a ramped-up effort to protect against potential security threats, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said. In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Kelly said the United States planned to "raise the bar" on airline security, including tightening screening of carry-on items.
Spotify has reached a settlement with a group of songwriters who had sued for copyright infringement, eliminating an potential complication to the public offering that the streaming service is planning later this year. Under the agreement which will need to be approved by the court, the streaming company will set up a fund worth $43.4 million to compensate songwriters and publishers whose compositions the service used without paying mechanical royalties.
Chipotle Mexican Grill announced that it has identified the malware that was responsible for the credit card hack earlier this year. When pressed by The Verge, Chipotle did not disclose the exact numbers of restaurants affected, but said “most” locations nationwide may have been involved.
A Canadian suspected of involvement in a massive 2014 breach of Yahoo email accounts linked to Russia is appealing a decision to hold him in custody pending an extradition hearing, the man's lawyer said. A bail appeal hearing for Karim Baratov is scheduled for June 5, attorney Amedeo DiCarlo said. Authorities will meet on June 16 to set a date for his hearing to determine if Baratov will be extradited to the United States.
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