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NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years - 12 avril 2014
The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said.
The agency’s reported decision to keep the bug secret (...)
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Facebook Sued Over Alleged Scanning of Private Messages - 4 janvier 2014
Facebook Inc. (FB) was sued over allegations it systematically intercepts its users private messages on the social network and profits by sharing the data with advertisers and marketers.
When users compose messages that include links to a third-party website, Facebook scans the content of the message, follows the (...)
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U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms - 17 juin 2013
Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said.
These programs, whose participants are (...)
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Apple, Google Not Interested in Settlement, Judge Says - 13 avril 2013
Apple Inc. and Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Motorola Mobility unit are more interested in using litigation as a business strategy than in resolving disputes over the use of patented technology, a federal judge in Florida said.
"The parties have no interest in efficiently and expeditiously resolving this dispute ; they (...)
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How Useful Is a Location Tracking App ? - 8 février 2013
Marc Prioleau, managing director at Prioleau Advisors, talks with Bloomberg’s Jon Erlichman about Facebook’s development of a location tracking app. They speak on Bloomberg Television’s "Bloomberg West."
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Rights Groups File OECD Complaint Against Surveillance Firms - 8 février 2013
A group of human rights organizations has filed complaints with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development against two European surveillance- technology companies, seeking investigations into whether the firms are complicit in the abuse of dissidents in the Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain.
The (...)
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Bionic Mannequins Spy on Shoppers to Boost Luxury Sales - 26 novembre 2012
Store mannequins are meant to catch your eye. Soon you may catch theirs.
Fashion brands are deploying mannequins equipped with technology used to identify criminals at airports to watch over shoppers in their stores. Retailers are introducing the EyeSee, sold by Italian mannequin maker Almax SpA, to glean data on (...)
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Coke Hacked And Doesn’t Tell - 5 novembre 2012
FBI officials quietly approached executives at Coca-Cola Co. (KO) on March 15, 2009, with some startling news.
Hackers had broken into the company’s computer systems and were pilfering sensitive files about its attempted $2.4 billion acquisition of China Huiyuan Juice Group (1886), according to three people (...)
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Spyware Matching FinFisher Can Take Over IPhones - 3 septembre 2012
FinFisher spyware made by U.K.-based Gamma Group can take control of a range of mobile devices, including Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone and Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM)’s BlackBerry, an analysis of presumed samples of the software shows.
Enlarge image Spyware Matching FinFisher Can Take Over IPhone and BlackBerry (...)
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Google’s Motorola Files New Patent Case Against Apple - 20 août 2012
Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Motorola Mobility unit said it filed a new patent-infringement case against Apple Inc. (AAPL) claiming that features on some Apple devices, including the Siri voice-recognition program, infringe its patents.
The complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission claims infringement of seven (...)
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Samsung China Assembler Employs Child Workers, Group Says - 8 août 2012
A Chinese company that assembles devices for Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) hired children at its production facilities and forced employees to work excessive hours, violating labor laws, China Labor Watch said in a report.
Seven children younger than 16 were working in the factory of HEG Electronics (Huizhou) (...)
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Facebook Faces Norway Probe Over Facial-Recognition Tags - 6 août 2012
Facebook Inc. (FB) is being probed by Norway’s data-protection regulator over concerns a facial- recognition program that automatically suggests people’s names to tag in pictures breaches privacy rights.
"It’s a very powerful tool Facebook has and it’s not yet clear how it all really works," Bjorn Erik Thon, (...)
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Facebook Is Said to Work With HTC on Mobile Phone for Mid-2013 - 27 juillet 2012
Facebook Inc. (FB), owner of the largest social network, is working with HTC Corp. to build its own smartphone for release as soon as mid-2013, people with knowledge of the matter said.
The companies had intended to release the device as early as the end of this year, and pushed back the timetable to give HTC (...)
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Cyber Attacks on Activists Traced to FinFisher Spyware of Gamma - 25 juillet 2012
It’s one of the world’s best-known and elusive cyber weapons : FinFisher, a spyware sold by U.K.- based Gamma Group, which can secretly take remote control of a computer, copying files, intercepting Skype calls and logging every keystroke.
For the past year, human rights advocates and virus hunters have scrutinized (...)
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Microsoft Said to Hold Talks on Buying Yammer Social Site - 15 juin 2012
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is in discussions to acquire Yammer Inc., operator of a social network for businesses, said two people familiar with the matter.
Microsoft may pay more than $1 billion, and a deal may be reached as soon as tomorrow, said one person, who declined to be identified because the negotiations are (...)
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Facebook Suit Over Subscriber Tracking Seeks $15 Billion - 20 mai 2012
Facebook Inc. (FB), the social network operator whose shares began trading yesterday, was sued for $15 billion in an amended complaint by subscribers who claim the company invaded their privacy by tracking their Internet use.
In the complaint filed May 17 in federal court in San Jose, California, the plaintiffs (...)
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IRS Auditing How Google Shifted Profits - 1er mai 2012
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is auditing how Google Inc. (GOOG) avoided federal income taxes by shifting profit into offshore subsidiaries, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The agency is bringing more than typical scrutiny to how the company valued software rights and other intellectual (...)
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Syria Crackdown Gets Italy Firm’s Aid With U.S.-Europe Spy Gear - 25 février 2012
As Syria’s crackdown on protests has claimed more than 3,000 lives since March, Italian technicians in telecom offices from Damascus to Aleppo have been busy equipping President Bashar al-Assad’s regime with the power to intercept, scan and catalog virtually every e-mail that flows through the country.
Employees of (...)
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D.R. Horton Says Mortgage Applicants’ Personal Information Was Compromised - 17 février 2012
D.R. Horton Inc. (DHI), the largest U.S. homebuilder by volume, said it’s notifying mortgage applicants that their personal data may have been compromised by a software security infringement.
The breach was caused by "unknown external sources," the Fort Worth, Texas-based company said in a statement yesterday. It (...)
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Android Phone Users Sue Google Over Alleged Tracking of Their Movements - 29 avril 2011
Two Android phone users sued Google Inc. (GOOG) over claims their phones secretly recorded and stored data about their movements.
The two residents of Oakland County in Michigan said in a complaint filed April 27 in federal court in Detroit that their HTC Inspire 4G phones, which use Google’s Android Operating (...)
