02/05/2012 04:15 PM
Hackers Claim Attack on Swedish Government’s Website
A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous said that it had attacked the Swedish government’s website, bringing it down for periods of time by overloading it with traffic. CyberForce used Twitter to claim responsibility, saying, “We have succeeded in the attack against the government.” Read the article: Seattle Times

02/05/2012 04:12 PM
Samsung Optimistic About EU’s Antitrust Probe
Samsung Electronics Co., in its first acknowledgment of the European Commission’s antitrust investigation of its patent licensing practices, said it believed the commission would ultimately conclude the company complies with the rules. The investigation arose out of Samsung’s dispute with Apple Inc. over trademarks and patents that cover smartphones and tablet computers. Read the article: [...]

02/05/2012 04:10 PM
EU Wants Google to Delay Changes to Privacy Policies
European governments, supported by the top justice official in the European Union, are pressing Google to halt coming changes to its privacy policies while they investigate the implications for personal data protection. The move is a shot across the bow for a range of companies, including Facebook, that rely on the European market of 500 [...]

02/05/2012 04:07 PM
Rift Grows as Countries Debate How to Fight Hackers
With worries growing over computer hacking, data theft and the risk of digital attacks destroying essential systems, western states and their allies are co-operating closer than ever on cyber security. But as they do so, the gulf between them and China and Russia — blamed for many recent hacks and with a very different and [...]

02/05/2012 04:06 PM
‘Anonymous’ Publishes Confidential FBI Phone Call
Internet activist group Anonymous published a recording of a confidential call between FBI agents and London detectives in which the law-enforcement agents discuss action they are taking against hacking. British police said they were investigating reports of the illegally recorded call, and the FBI said a criminal investigation was under way into the incident. Read [...]

02/02/2012 10:15 PM
Commerce Dep’t Agency Hit by Computer Virus
A virus has attacked the computer network of a job-development agency in the Commerce Department, forcing it to block employees from the Internet for nine days. The attack, discovered two weeks ago, targeted computers at the Economic Development Administration, which is responsible for making business-development grants to distressed communities to help them create jobs. Read [...]

02/02/2012 10:11 PM
S. Korea Indicts Man for Retweeting N. Korean Posts
South Korean prosecutors indicted a social media and freedom-of-speech activist for reposting messages from the North Korean government’s Twitter account. Park Jung-geun, 23, a photographer who specialized in taking pictures of babies, was detained last month on charges of violating South Korea’s controversial National Security Law, which bans “acts that benefit the enemy” — North [...]

02/02/2012 02:50 PM
Paris Court Fines Google Over Free Map Services
A Paris court ordered Google France and its parent company Google to pay plaintiff Bottin Cartographes 500,000 euros (about $660,000) for providing its free mapping services to businesses across the country. The court also required Google to pay a 15,000 euro fine for its practice. Read the article: CNET News

02/02/2012 02:48 PM
VeriSign Says Hackers Stole Undisclosed Data
VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world’s websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company. The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston, Virginia-based company, which is ultimately responsible for the integrity of Web addresses [...]

02/02/2012 02:44 PM
Prosecutors Seize 16 Illegal Sports Broadcasting Sites
Three days before Super Bowl XLVI, federal prosecutors said they have seized 16 websites that illegally streamed live sports and pay-per-view events over the Internet, and charged a Michigan man with running nine of those websites. According to the government, the 16 websites provided links to give viewers easy access to other sites that hosted [...]