Proposed California law would mandate smartphone kill switch
Kill-switch technology that can render a lost or stolen smartphone useless would become mandatory in California under a new bill that will be proposed to the state legislature in January.
View ArticleSpanish police arrest eight in $45 million global ATM fraud
Spanish police said Sunday eight people have been arrested who allegedly aided a global ring that stole millions from two banks through fraudulent ATM withdrawals.
View ArticleRomanian authorities arrest man suspected of being celebrity hacker Guccifer
A Romanian man was arrested this week under suspicion that he is the hacker known online as Guccifer who hacked into the online accounts of various public figures and politicians, including former U.S....
View ArticleSuspected email hackers for hire charged in four countries
Eleven people were charged in the U.S., India, China and Romania for their suspected involvement with websites offering email hacking services.
View ArticleUber's latest legal challenge, a wrongful death suit, should give passengers...
At 8 p.m. on New Year's Eve, a driver fatally hit 6-year-old Sofia Liu as she walked with her mother and brother in a San Francisco crosswalk. Car accidents happen all the time in major cities, but...
View ArticleLavabit case highlights legal fuzziness around encryption rules
While privacy advocates may see Lavabit as bravely defending U.S. privacy rights in the online world, federal judges hearing its appeal of contempt-of-court charges seem to regard the now defunct...
View ArticleDefendant challenges DOJ's use of NSA surveillance
A man charged with aiding a terrorist organization has asked a U.S. court to throw out information collected by the National Security Agency, saying the NSA's surveillance of his Internet...
View ArticleDOJ's Holder says agency is investigating Target data breach
The US Department of Justice is investigating the data breach at Target stores, which compromised as many as 110 million payment cards and personal records in one of the largest such attacks on record.
View ArticleGerman federal prosecutor considers formal NSA investigation
Germany's federal prosecutor is considering if there is enough evidence to warrant a formal, criminal investigation into the German government's alleged involvement in the U.S. National Security Agency...
View ArticleGCHQ reportedly infiltrated and attacked hacktivist groups
British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has reportedly infiltrated hacktivist groups and used denial-of-service and other techniques to disrupt their online activities.
View ArticleCalifornia bill proposes mandatory kill-switch on phones and tablets
Politicians and law enforcement officials in California will introduce a bill on Friday that requires all smartphones and tablet PCs sold in the state be equipped with a digital "kill-switch" that...
View ArticleFederal smartphone kill-switch legislation proposed
Pressure on the cellphone industry to introduce technology that could disable stolen smartphones has intensified with the introduction of proposed federal legislation that would mandate such a system.
View ArticleUS carriers said to have rejected 'kill switch' technology last year
U.S. cellphone carriers were offered a technology last year that supporters say would dramatically cut incidents of smartphone theft, but the carriers turned it down, according to sources with...
View ArticleCalifornia police criticized for 'stingray' cellphone trackers
Law enforcement agencies in California are using devices that mimic cellular base stations to track mobile users, public records have revealed, triggering charges that the practice may be...
View ArticleDoes Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto have a case against Newsweek?
This week's emphatic denial from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto that he had anything to do with the creation of Bitcoin also hinted at a possible lawsuit against Newsweek, though legal experts say it would be...
View ArticleAT&T hacker Weev released from prison after appeals court overturns conviction
Andrew Auernheimer, known online as "weev," has won an appeal against his conviction for exploiting a vulnerability in AT&T's website to collect the email addresses of Apple iPad users. The 2010...
View ArticleMegaupload seeks return of millions in frozen Hong Kong assets
Megaupload, the defunct file-storage site, is asking a Hong Kong court to release millions of dollars in assets as part of efforts to allow its former users to reclaim their data.
View ArticleLawyers ask US Supreme Court to limit mobile phone searches
Police shouldn't be able to search suspects' mobile phones at the time of arrest because of the huge amounts of private information now stored on those devices, lawyers for two criminal defendants...
View ArticleFormer Subway franchise owner pleads guilty to POS hacking
A former owner of several Subway fast-food restaurants in southern California pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from a gift card scheme that involved tampering with several other Subway...
View ArticleAmazon, AT&T, Snapchat rated among the least trustworthy with data, EFF finds
Amazon, Snapchat and AT&T rank among the least trustworthy technology companies when it comes to how they handle government data requests, according to a report from the Electronic Frontier...
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