In what may be a first, patients with heart conditions that are using particular pacemaker brands will have to visit their doctors for firmware updates to keep their embedded devices safe from tampering. In particular, Abbott's pacemakers, formerly of St. Jude Medical, have been "recalled" by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a voluntary basis.
Instagram said at least one hacker was able to steal personal information from high-profile user accounts, blaming the breach on a bug in its system that has now been fixed. “We recently discovered that one or more individuals obtained unlawful access to a number of high-profile Instagram users’ contact information -- specifically email address and phone number -- by exploiting a bug in an Instagram API,” a rep said in a statement.
Banks are increasingly turning to insurance to protect their capital from “operational risks” like cyber attacks and rogue traders, and insurers say they can help safeguard lenders by providing an extra layer of expertise. After a spate of expensive court cases and IT outages, banks including Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Lloyds are looking for ways to mitigate the costs of such episodes by taking out insurance.
There have been numerous stories out of Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey that will restore your faith in humanity, as ordinary people have sent money and scores of supplies to help those who lost everything. But along with the outpouring of donations and on-the-ground assistance, there are always the scams. The National Guard had to tweet out a warning that a phone number shared on Facebook claiming to connect callers to their offices was actually for an insurance company, Foremost Insurance Group.
A huge spambot ensnaring 711 million email accounts has been uncovered. A Paris-based security researcher, who goes by the pseudonymous handle Benkow, discovered an open and accessible web server hosted in the Netherlands, which stores dozens of text files containing a huge batch of email addresses, passwords, and email servers used to send spam.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it will notify EU regulators how it plans to ensure its search engine does not favor its own shopping service over rivals’. Google was hit with a record 2.4 billion euro ($2.9 billion) fine from the EU over the practice in June and has to come up with proposals to end the anti-competitive behavior.
The U.N. migration agency hammered Facebook for allowing what it said was a “horrifying” video showing gangs in Libya threatening to harm a group of terrified migrants, many from Somalia and Ethiopia. One migrant in the video is lying on his chest with a concrete block on his back, and that the video shows the faces of some migrants without their consent in a way that they can be identified.
China’s top Internet censor announced a new set of regulations meant to eliminate posts by anonymous users on Internet forums and other platforms. According to the new regulations, Internet companies and service providers are responsible for requesting and verifying real names from users when they register and must immediately report illegal content to the authorities.
Symantec Corp, a digital security company, says it has identified a sustained cyber spying campaign, likely state-sponsored, against Indian and Pakistani entities involved in regional security issues.In a threat intelligence report that was sent to clients in July, Symantec said the online espionage effort dated back to October 2016.
Apple is moving aggressively to shut down Iranian apps. In a message to Iranian developers whose apps were affected by the ban, Apple said, “Under the U.S. sanctions regulations, the App Store cannot host, distribute or do business with apps or developers connected to certain U.S. embargoed countries.”
The White House announced that President Trump intends to nominate Andrei Iancu to be the director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Iancu is currently the managing partner of Irell & Manella LLP, a Los Angeles-based law firm that focuses on intellectual property law.
Big Internet firms are seeking to get liability protections they enjoy in the U.S. inserted into a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement, adding fuel to a fight over the legal shield that some lawmakers say has facilitated online sex trafficking. The proposed change to NAFTA would mean online platforms in all three countries would be protected from liability for activities of their users, such as harmful or illegal posts.
An increase to a record level of Russians arrested or indicted on U.S. cyber crime charges this year shows that although President Donald Trump is trying to improve relations with Moscow, the United States has not shied away from pursuing Russians suspected of cyber crime. The prosecutions coincide with intensified scrutiny of Russian hackers since U.S. intelligence officials determined that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election using cyber warfare methods to help Trump.
The FBI has filed charges against a Chinese malware broker named Yu Pingan, alleging that he provided hackers with malware, including the Sakula trojan, to breach multiple computer networks belonging to companies in the U.S. The FBI's criminal complaint alleges that Yu, also known as "GoldSun," conspired with two unnamed hackers from around April 2011 through around January 2014 to maliciously target a group of US companies' computer networks.
The Silicon Valley companies that make money off social media and online services have started to enact strong measures against extremism, barring white nationalists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and others who follow creeds they deem racist and hateful.Most remarkably, perhaps, the efforts have even spread to the free-wheeling world of dating apps, where users have for years been welcome to screen potential lovers based on everything from height to religious beliefs.
YouTube is implementing a new feature it says will help curb hate speech on its platform.The company is targeting videos that contain “controversial religious or supremacist content,” but which do not violate its terms of service.
A group of Democrat and Republican voters in Georgia is suing the state to overturn its fiercely fought June special election, saying evidence the state's voter database was exposed to potential hackers for at least eight months invalidates the results. The lawsuit, which went to pre-trial conferences this week, could be a sign of disputes to come as revelations mount about the vulnerability of the U.S. election system and Russian attempts to infiltrate it.
U.S. prosecutors prevailed in their request to seek information about subscribers to an anti-Trump website allegedly linked to rioting during the presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. A judge in District of Columbia Superior Court ordered DreamHost LLC, the host of the website disruptj20.org, to comply with a government warrant seeking information about the site’s subscribers.
Was a hack attack behind two separate instances of Navy ships colliding with commercial vessels in the past two months? Experts say it’s highly unlikely, but not impossible — and the Navy is investigating.
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The U.K. government is set to reveal plans that show it will adhere to European data-sharing rules, to minimize disruption for U.K.-based companies conducting business with the bloc. The paper will outline how data will be protected and exchanged with the EU, and which “reflects the unprecedented alignment between British and European law,” according to the Department for Exiting the European Union.
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