An 11-year-old boy was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results found there in under 10 minutes during the world’s largest yearly hacking convention, DEFCON 26, organizers of the event said. Thousands of adult hackers attend the convention annually, while this year a group of children attempted to hack 13 imitation websites linked to voting in presidential battleground states.
Vimeo has removed Alex Jones' InfoWars from its platform for violating the company's Terms of Service standards, a Vimeo spokesperson told Business Insider. The videos "violated our Terms of Service prohibitions on discriminatory and hateful content," the spokesperson said, adding that Vimeo had notified the account owner and issued a refund, as "we do not want to profit from content of this nature in any way."
State officials say they have solid plans to guard election systems across the country from potential cyberattacks by foreign adversaries during this year’s midterms. They are less sure how to counter another threat: online disinformation about how to cast a vote.
Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. will settle an antitrust case with Taiwanese regulators for about $93 million, and has also pledged to invest $700 million in Taiwan over the next five years. The settlement replaces a fine of roughly $778 million imposed by Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission in 2017, when it accused the U.S. firm of refusing to sell chips to mobile handset makers that wouldn’t agree to its patent-licensing terms.
Twitter said that the accounts belonging to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his fringe media organization InfoWars would, for now, remain online, one day after a CNN investigation found that Jones' Twitter accounts appeared to have repeatedly violated the company's rules. A Twitter spokesperson said that the company concluded that of the more than a dozen tweets included in CNN's report, seven were found to have violated Twitter's rules.
The Democratic National Committee officially served its lawsuit to WikiLeaks via Twitter, employing a rare method to serve its suit to the elusive group that has thus far been unresponsive. As CBS News first reported last month, the DNC filed a motion with a federal court in Manhattan requesting permission to serve its complaint to WikiLeaks on Twitter, a platform the DNC argued the website uses regularly.
Facebook Inc. is removing content related to instructions on 3D printing of firearms, a company spokesperson said, as debate around access to gun in the United States intensifies. “Sharing instructions on how to print firearms using 3D printers is not allowed under our Community Standards. In line with our policies, we are removing this content from Facebook,” the social media giant said.
A Florida senator raised alarms with his remarks that Russian hackers have penetrated voter registration databases in his state. But now Florida election officials and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security say that, despite what Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson said, they're not aware of any breaches.
In India, the world’s second-biggest smartphone market, Apple Inc’s normally deft management of government relations is being put to a fresh high-stakes test. The company is facing several headaches in India -- a market it calls a top priority but where it has just 1 percent share.
Comcast Xfinity inadvertently exposed the partial home addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 26.5 million customers, according to security researcher Ryan Stevenson, who discovered the security flaws. Two previously unreported vulnerabilities in the high-speed internet service provider’s online customer portal made it easy for even an unsophisticated hacker to access this sensitive information.
On July 27, Washington, D.C.’s Office of Cable Television, Film, Music, and Entertainment proposed a set of rules restricting the city’s Internet service providers from selling customer data and browsing history without their consent. The proposal seems basic, commonsense and broadly supported by the public. And, if recent history is any judge, it’s doomed to failure.
While it may yet face legal challenges, the California Consumer Privacy Act is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2020. Although many small businesses may be exempt, those subject to the law will have to ensure their systems and websites can comply with consumer inquiries and requests.
Customers using devices from four major cell phone carriers could unknowingly be exposing sensitive data to hackers, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Fifth Domain reports that DHS-funded researchers from mobile security firm Kryptowire have found vulnerabilities in phones used by Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint.
Twitter is leaving accounts for Alex Jones and InfoWars live, at least for now, amid bans from fellow tech companies. A Twitter spokesperson told CNBC that the accounts do not violate the company's policies. The company also said it is constantly moderating content on its platform and will take action if it needs to, and that much of the content posted to other platforms doesn't make it to Twitter.
Apple does not eavesdrop on iPhone users, the company said in response to an inquiry by a congressional committee about the company’s privacy practices. Specifically, the company said it does not listen to iPhone users until they say, “Hey Siri.” Apple’s response to that question and others came in a letter by Timothy Powderly, its director of federal government affairs, to Rep. Greg Walden, R-Oregon, who is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Advocates for the First Amendment are asking Facebook to ease restrictions on journalists and scholars gathering user data for research. In a letter, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to change the company's user agreement to allow researchers to use fake accounts and automated data gathering tools that are otherwise banned.
Iranian hackers are developing software attacks that render computer systems inoperable until a digital ransom is paid, a new report says, a threat that comes as the U.S. moves to reimpose tough economic sanctions on the country. Over the past two years, researchers at Accenture PLC’s iDefense cybersecurity-intelligence group have tracked five new types of so-called ransomware they say were built by hackers in Iran.
Users who publish content freely available on the Internet should get consent from the person behind it, Europe’s top court ruled in a boost to the bloc’s creative industries. Regulators say they lose out because illegal uploads of works on big online platforms such as Google’s YouTube and Vivendi’s video-sharing site Dailymotion deny publishers, broadcasters and artists of revenues.
In an area not far from Iowa State University, a racist Wi-Fi network pops up automatically on cellphones and computers. Its name: “Hang that N-----!” When a 24-year-old from Los Angeles visiting friends in Ames saw those words, she called campus police and the Ames Police Department to complain. But Ames police told her they could do nothing about the Wi-Fi address because freedom of expression is protected under the First Amendment.
Singapore’s worst cyber attack in its history, in which personal information of about 1.5 million people including the Prime Minister was stolen, has the hallmarks of a state-linked group, the government’s communications minister said. In late June, hackers started stealing personal details and prescription records of patients who visited Singapore’s outpatient clinics over the previous three years, authorities announced on July 20.
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