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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.,...
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. ...
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...
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...
