Neowin News Feed for: Federal

FBI, NSA, and CIA use ad blockers due to fear of targeted ads

Usama Jawad — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 05:34:01 +0000

A document has revealed that most U.S. intelligence agencies, including FBI, NSA, CIA, and DHS use ad blockers due to fear of targeted ads and malvertising, even though they are not mandated to do so. Read more...

Microsoft is driving Zero Trust adoption under recent Presidential Executive Order

Usama Jawad — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 16:50:01 +0000

Microsoft has explained how it is working with the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) to drive the adoption of Zero Trust models under a recent Presidential Executive Order. Read more...

Microsoft reveals details of requests filed by U.S. government to access customer data

Usama Jawad — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 06:26:01 +0000

Microsoft has disclosed details of three cases where it fought secrecy orders issued by the U.S. government accessing customer data. The orders came from federal courts in Maryland and New York. Read more...

Second LulzSec suspect arrested over year-old hacking incident

Paul Ferson — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:50:43 +0000

An attack on Sony Pictures' website, more than a year ago, has not gone unpunished. A second suspect in the attack has been arrested over his crimes, and could face 15 years imprisonment for them. Read more...

German federal agency recommends Google Chrome

Denis Wong — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:49:59 +0000

Google Chrome's sandbox, plus automatic updates of its components and the Flash plugin, earned a recommendation from the German Federal Office for Information Security. Read more...

Lawsuits filed against Facebook for violating federal law

Paul Ferson — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:13:22 +0000

Federal and class-action lawsuits have been filed against Facebook after it emerged that the social network giant is able to track users via cookies even when they are not signed in. Read more...

Man demands 50-50 share of Facebook, has emails to prove it

Denis Wong — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:55:47 +0000

Facebook's legal problems are far from over, following the likely end of their long-going case between Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Winklevoss twins. Following Monday's ruling by a federal judge which struck down the... Read more...

TorrentSpy Ordered by Federal Judge to Become MPAA Spy

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:26:24 +0000

TorrentSpy, one of the largest and most popular torrent dump sites, may soon become another piece of bait in the MPAA's ongoing efforts to track down and prosecute copyright infringers. The site has already been... Read more...

New bill lets colleges use federal funds to fight P2P

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:09:39 +0000

Representative Ric Keller feels that colleges in America are places where students learn to steal "billions of dollars in intellectual property from hardworking people whose jobs hang in the balance" and his new bill (HR... Read more...

Federal Judge: Cablevision's "networked DVR" Illegal

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:46:14 +0000

A year ago, Cablevision envisioned the idea of a remote-storage DVR which would store programming on servers at the cable company rather than on set-top boxes. Cablevision records everything ever aired, then makes available to... Read more...

Federal Judge Rules Against Morpheus

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:24:39 +0000

U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson has ruled that the Morpheus file-sharing software encourages millions of users to pirate music, movies, software and so on. StreamCast Network Inc., the company behind Morpheus, was declared guilty because... Read more...

US Federal Commision Clear MacBook Pro Batteries

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:11:49 +0000

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has reviewed substandard batteries for Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro notebooks and says they don't pose a safety threat. Apple had voluntarily launched an exchange program for batteries saying... Read more...

Federal Judge issues injunction on California Video Game Law

Todd Tanner — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:15:26 +0000

Late last night a Federal Judge issued a decision on the VSDA v. Schwarzenegger lawsuit, stating that the California Video Game Law that was passed several months ago and was about to go into effect... Read more...

Federal Court Stops 'Legal' P2P Claim

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:34:13 +0000

A Los Angeles based website which claimed to offer legal trading of copyrighted material has been temporarily banned from making such claims by a federal court, the US government said yesterday. Cashier Myricks Jr.,... Read more...

Google Countersuit Moves to Federal Court

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:49:42 +0000

In a likely effort to remove local bias in favor of Google, Microsoft is attempting to shift Google's countersuit in the Kai-Fu Lee case from a California court to federal court. ... Read more...

Federal Judge Approves CD Antitrust Deal

Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:19:18 +0000

If you filed a claim, apparently your potentially going to get $13! Cool! A federal judge approved a settlement agreement Friday in a music antitrust lawsuit that will result in more than... Read more...

Attention: Unindicted federal felons at large

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:26:41 +0000

If you've ever used a peer-to-peer network and swapped copyrighted files, chances are pretty good you're guilty of a federal felony. It doesn't matter if you've forsworn Napster, uninstalled Kazaa and now... Read more...