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Police in Russia have arrested a man suspected of masterminding a pair of famous hacking tools -- the Blackhole and Cool exploit kits, favorites among cybercriminals looking to install malware Russian authorities have been mum on the situation, but security firms have reported a decline in the programs' use. Also, Alexander Gostev, the chief securi...
Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, one of the world's most vilified workers-rights violators, confirmed reports that it is manufacturing Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4 on the backs of university interns Chinese media broke the story, asserting that thousands of students from an engineering program at the Xi'an Institute of Technology -- the program is ...
China continues to crack down on online rumors, as 110 people were detained in the northwest China province of Xinjiang Those arrested are accused of creating and spreading rumors, instigating violence and disseminating religious extremism....
Russia's Pirate Party wrote a letter to NASA offering to host the agency's website, which is currently out of commission because of the government shutdown The Pirate Party -- a minority political movement in many European countries predicated on privacy and transparency -- informed NASA that it could use the party's dedicated servers until the U.S
Russia's FSB security service wants to ensure that every ounce of electronic communication is monitored at next February's Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi, according to a team of Russian investigative journalists The journalists reportedly unearthed documents and tenders from Russian communication companies that suggest the FSB will ma...
In France, members of parliament unanimously supported a bill designed to restrict Amazon's ability to discount books In particular, the lawmakers want to prohibit Amazon's practice of packaging a 5 percent discount with free delivery, a deal so tantalizingly awesome that France is worried about the livelihood of independent bookstores....
Employees at the National Security Agency received a memo telling them that they, too, would not work because of the government shutdown taking place as Congress does whatever it is Congress is doing (or not doing) right now In the memo, penned by the NSA's associate director of human resources and sent to thousands of NSA staffers, employees are t...
Japanese NTT Docomo unveiled augmented reality glasses that are able to translate menus and signs in real time The company, which showed off the device at a Japanese gadget fair, says the glasses will be ready when foreigners descend on Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics....
In France, data protection officials announced that they will impose sanctions against Google for the company's failure to stick to a three-month deadline to tweak its privacy policies The fine stems from Google's melding of different privacy policies in Europe into a single policy that applies to all its platforms -- Gmail, YouTube, Google+ and s...
Members of the European Parliament's internal market and consumer protection committee voted unanimously Thursday in favor of a new law mandating universal chargers for mobile devices In addition to convenience -- German parliamentarian Barbara Weiler called the current situation "cable chaos" -- the measure is motivated by a desire to curb electr...
Departing from the normal routine of chiding Google over taxes, British parliament is trying its hand at chiding Google over piracy A select committee accused Google of apathetically failing to curb piracy. The chairman of the committee, John Whittingdale, said that MPs were "unimpressed by Google's continued failure to stop" displaying search resu...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff gave a speech in which she -- well, maybe it's best to just let her say it "What we have before us, Mr. President, is a serious case of violation of human rights and civil liberties," Rousseff said, addressing the UN General Assembly mere moments before President Obama was to speak....
China is lifting its ban on a handful of heretofore banned websites within the Shanghai Free Trade Zone Included among those now considered acceptable are Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times' website....
The Chaos Computing Club, a group of German hackers, claimed to have cracked Apple's new iPhone fingerprint scanner The scanner is one of the distinguishing features of Apple's new iPhone 5S, which is otherwise quite similar to the iPhone 5....
Tencent Holdings' WeChat mobile messaging service, which is akin to WhatsApp, stands to gain more users as China makes it more and more risky to vent opinions online Long a hotbed for censorship, China has been turning up the heat even further on netizens believed to be spreading "rumors." China's Supreme Court recently ruled that jail was in the c...
In a loud declaration of, "Because we can!" plans have been hatched to build a skyscraper in South Korea that will be able to turn invisible The skyscraper's invisibility function will work by having cameras on the tower take pictures of the sky behind it. Those images will then be transmitted to the front of the building, thereby fooling the eyes ...
Syrian rebels have taken to using an iPad app to help guide mortar fire Rebels were photographed using an iPad reportedly equipped with the iHandy Level Free app, deployed as a method for ensuring that the mortar tube is level....
Facebook and Twitter were widely available to Iranian netizens on Monday. Come Tuesday, however, things were back to normal: The sites were blocked Iran's Mehr news agency reports that faulty Internet filters caused the sites to become available -- not some newfound progressive streak in Tehran....
A Google Street View car dinged a pair of public transport buses and a truck in Bogor, Indonesia The Google driver hit one bus and then tried to skedaddle when the driver got angry, police reported.
Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei is taking a PR victory lap following reports suggesting that the National Security Agency spied on the company Earlier this week, Brazilian TV network Globo revealed a raft of documents that purportedly came from Edward Snowden. The files implicate the NSA, along with its British snooping ally, GCHQ, in spying...
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