Apple claimed that Samsung's Galaxy phones infringe a patent it holds
Samsung has been banned from selling three models of its Galaxy smartphones in a number of European countries. The preliminary injunction was handed down by a court in the Netherlands after Apple filed a claim for patent infringement. Read More
Anonymous defaced the myBART.org website before publishing thousands of personal details. The site has since been taken offline
Hackers have targeted the website of a San Francisco transport company that turned off mobile masts to prevent protests outside its stations. Public anger towards the Bay Area Rapid Transport (BART) had been fermenting since July when transit police shot dead a man who was carrying a knife. Read More
Apple
Apple Inc’s increasingly effective patent war against rivals like Samsung Electronics may mask its real target: arch-foe Google Inc. The maker of the iPad and iPhone has sued three of the largest manufacturers of Google’s Android-based devices — Samsung, Motorola and HTC — for multiple patent infringements across multiple countries, pointing out “slavish copying” of design and “look and feel.” Read More
Fake iPhones are displayed at a mobile phone stall in Shanghai August 11, 2011.
Authorities in China’s southwestern city of Kunming have identified another 22 unauthorized Apple retailers weeks after a fake of the company’s store in the city sparked an international storm. Read More
Oracle
A weekend contest at the world’s largest hacking convention in Las Vegas showed one reason why big corporations seem to be such easy prey for cyber criminals: their workers are poorly trained in security. Read More
Sanford Wallace, pictured in 1997, has a long history of sending junk mail
A US man charged with sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users has turned himself in. Sanford Wallace, who is known as the “Spam King”, surrendered to FBI agents in California. Read More
Facebook? Hang-outs could predict new online friends
A method of predicting which individuals may become friends on social networking sites based on the places they visit out in the real world has been developed by researchers at Cambridge University in Britain. Read More
Sarah Willis, a friend of one of the judges, was the Vanna White of the Black Hat conference's Pwnie Awards.
Las Vegas – It’s the Oscars for hard-core computer hackers, except that the trophies at the Pwnie Awards are cutesy little toy horses with pink and purple manes. Read More
By Sam Ward, USA TODAY
LAS VEGAS — Fresh evidence that the Internet has become saturated with hacking groups relentlessly striving to crack into company networks grabbed attention as the Black Hat cybersecurity conference got underway here Wednesday.
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Police are investigating hacking attacks on the Serious and Organised Crime Agency's website.
A man from the Shetland Islands has been charged with computer offences by police investigating hacking attacks. Jake Davis, 18, was charged with unauthorised computer access and conspiracy to carry out a distributed denial of service attack on the Serious Organised Crime Agency’s website. Read More
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