A Missouri lawmaker is under mounting pressure to resign after she said on social media she hopes President Trump is assassinated, following his response to violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal went on her personal Facebook page to vent two days after the president blamed “both sides” for the brutality.
The Ukrainian central bank said it had warned state-owned and private lenders of the appearance of new malware as security services said Ukraine faced cyber attacks like those that knocked out global systems in June. The June 27 attack, dubbed NotPetya, took down many Ukrainian government agencies and businesses, before spreading rapidly through corporate networks of multinationals with operations or suppliers in eastern Europe.
President Trump announced he is boosting U.S. Cyber Command to a full combatant command, triggering a review of whether it should separate from the National Security Agency. Speculation has swirled for months that Trump could elevate the command, a move that was also considered by the Obama administration.
China has launched a digital "cyber-court" to help deal with a rise in the number of internet-related claims, according to state media. The Hangzhou Internet Court heard its first case -- a copyright infringement dispute between an online writer and a web company in a trial that lasted 20 minutes.
A digital rights group based in San Francisco criticized several internet companies for removing neo-Nazi groups from servers and services, saying the actions were "dangerous" and threatened free expression online. "We strongly believe that what GoDaddy, Google, and Cloudflare did here was dangerous," Cindy Cohn, executive director of Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote in a blog post along with two other staffers.
A federal court ruled that the often lengthy online agreements customers face when registering for sites and apps are binding, even if customers don’t fully understand or take the time to read them, giving a boost to companies seeking to avoid class-action lawsuits. The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals found that Uber Technologies Inc. customers sign over their rights to sue in court when they click to agree to the ride-hailing company’s terms of service, which include a provision requiring arbitration.
Music-streaming service Spotify announced it would remove "hate music," music by white supremacists, from its vast streaming library. The move comes after a music news blog, Digital Music News, published a story identifying 37 white supremacist bands that could still be found on Spotify.
China’s top cyberspace regulators have warned Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and other online services against carrying illicit content, substances and tools to help users circumvent the nation’s internet content barriers. The Cyberspace Administration of China singled out five services, including Alibaba’s Taobao internet bazaar, for criticism and ordered them to rectify their problems immediately.
Twitter Inc. suspended accounts linked to the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, keeping up pressure from Silicon Valley on white supremacists after weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Twitter said it would not discuss individual accounts, but at least three accounts affiliated with the Daily Stormer led to pages saying "account suspended."
PayPal, the popular online payment platform, announced that it would bar users from accepting donations to promote hate, violence and intolerance after revelations that the company played a key role in raising money for a white supremacist rally that turned deadly. The company, in a lengthy blog post, outlined its long-standing policy of not allowing its services to be used to accept payments or donations to organizations that advocate racist views. PayPal singled out the Ku Klux Klan, white supremacist groups or Nazi groups — all three of whom were involved in last weekend’s Charlottesville rally.
For the first time, an actual witness has emerged in the hack of the Democratic National Committee, and he has been interviewed by the FBI. The hacker, known only by his online alias “Profexer,” turned himself in early this year, and has now become a witness for the FBI.
Facebook removed a number of pages for racist groups following the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that turned violent. The company confirmed to The Hill that it had removed eight pages since the weekend rally, first noted by BuzzFeed reporter Alex Kantrowitz.
More than a dozen high technology companies and the biggest wireless operator in the United States, Verizon Communications Inc., have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to make it harder for government officials to access individuals' sensitive cellphone data. The companies filed a 44-page brief with the court in a high-profile dispute over whether police should have to get a warrant before obtaining data that could reveal a cellphone user's whereabouts.
Hackers attempt to hook tens of thousands of people through job scams each year, according to U.S. Federal Trade Commission data, aiming to trick them into handing over personal or sensitive information, or to gain access to their corporate networks. Employment fraud is nothing new, but as more companies shift to entirely-digital job application processes, Better Business Bureau director of communications Katherine Hutt said scams targeting job seekers pose a growing threat.
Ride-hailing service Uber has agreed to protect data and audit use of rider information to settle a complaint from the federal government that it deceived customers. The Federal Trade Commission, in a complaint settled, alleged that Uber failed to secure data about rider trips and neglected to monitor employee access to the information.
Online fund-raising sites are turning their backs on activists looking to offer financial support for James Fields, the man accused of driving his car into counter-protesters at a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. GoFundMe, Kickstarter and other mainstream crowdfunding firms have policies that prohibit hate speech or abuse, the latest example of technology firms making it harder for far-right groups to organize online.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google yanked its web domain support for the Daily Stormer three hours after the neo-Nazi website moved to the search engine’s registry system following its rejection from another. “We are canceling Daily Stormer’s registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service," a Google spokesman said.
A Twitter Inc. account called @YesYoureRacist sparked controversy after exhorting its 300,000 followers to identify white nationalist and supremacist protesters from last weekend’s march and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. So far, at least two people who attended the protest have been revealed and one lost his job, according to the Twitter feed.
A U.S. federal judge ruled that Microsoft Corp.'s LinkedIn unit cannot prevent a startup from accessing public profile data, in a test of how much control a social media site can wield over information its users have deemed to be public. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction request brought by hiQ Labs, and ordered LinkedIn to remove within 24 hours any technology preventing hiQ from accessing public profiles.
The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post. Dreamhost, a web hosting provider, said that it has been working with the Department of Justice for several months on the request, which believes goes too far under the Constitution.
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