http://www.mail.com/subjects/12280-technology-issues.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/12280-technology-issues.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2159678-stuntwoman-sues-news-corp-alleged-phone-hack.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie sued Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in Los Angeles on Tuesday, claiming she's a victim of a phone hacking scheme to obtain information about the actress. Eunice Huthart, of Liverpool, England, is the first person to sue the media company in the U.S. Her New York attorney, Norman Siege... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:56:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2159678-stuntwoman-sues-news-corp-alleged-phone-hack.html 2013-06-18T19:56:20Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2157310-google-settles-suit-clears-way-stock-split.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year. The settlement announced Monday came on the eve of a scheduled Delaware chancery court trial that threatened to cast an unflattering light on Google c... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:56:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2157310-google-settles-suit-clears-way-stock-split.html 2013-06-17T20:56:36Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2156508-report-uk-hacking-diplomats-angers-nations.html LONDON (AP) — A newspaper report that British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails has prompted an angry response from traditional rival Russia and provoked demands for an investigation from Turkey and South Africa. Although spying on diplomats is as old as diplomacy itself, the Guardian's report laid out i... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:12:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2156508-report-uk-hacking-diplomats-angers-nations.html 2013-06-17T17:12:29Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2156698-apple-details-government-requests-data.html NEW YORK (AP) — Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May. The company, like some other businesses, had asked the U.S government to be able to share how many requests it received related to national security and how it handled them. Those requests were made as part o... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:51:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2156698-apple-details-government-requests-data.html 2013-06-17T13:51:26Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2155844-us-judge-microsoft-antitrust-case-dies-76.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of former Mayor Marion Barry, has died. Jackson died at his home in Compton, Md., his wife Patricia told The Associated Press on Sunday. He was 76 and had cancer. Jackson, who retired from the benc... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:17:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2155844-us-judge-microsoft-antitrust-case-dies-76.html 2013-06-17T02:17:22Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2153598-google-launching-internet-beaming-balloons.html CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online. Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was announced Saturday in New Zealand, where up to 50 volunteer households are already beginning to receiv... Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:24:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2153598-google-launching-internet-beaming-balloons.html 2013-06-15T16:24:15Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2153480-beyonce-video-game-company-settle-nyc-lawsuit.html NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce has settled a New York City lawsuit that said she didn't play fair in a deal for a video game structured around her. Court records show the case was closed Friday after the Grammy Award-winning singer and Gate Five LLC agreed to drop it. A lawyer for Gate Five says the terms are confidential. A lawyer for Beyonce hasn't returned a ... Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:21:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2153480-beyonce-video-game-company-settle-nyc-lawsuit.html 2013-06-15T00:21:20Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2148532-privacy-online-generation-wants.html CHICAGO (AP) — The generation that's grown up posting their lives online wants a little privacy. That's not what we might expect as we debate just how much access the government should have to our mobile and online lives. But as it turns out, young people are much more complex than some may think when determining what personal information they want to sha... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:10:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2148532-privacy-online-generation-wants.html 2013-06-13T20:10:06Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2148494-lawmaker-accuses-google-dodging-taxes.html LONDON (AP) — An influential committee of British lawmakers accused search company Google of dodging its taxes on Thursday in a scathing report that said the U.S. Internet company took on highly contrived arrangements serving no purpose other than to avoid paying its fair share. The report came after testimony by Google Inc. Vice President Matt Brittin, w... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:36:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2148494-lawmaker-accuses-google-dodging-taxes.html 2013-06-13T18:36:45Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2148898-leaker-snowden-alleges-nsa-hacking-china-world.html HONG KONG (AP) — For months, China has tried to turn the tables on the U.S. to counter accusations that it hacks America's computers and networks. Now, former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden may have handed Beijing a weapon in its cyber war of words with Washington. In an interview with the South China Morning Post newspaper, Snowden claims the U.S... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:25:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2148898-leaker-snowden-alleges-nsa-hacking-china-world.html 2013-06-13T11:25:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2148360-google-finds-hack-attempts-eve-iran-election.html MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google said Wednesday that it has discovered and stopped a series of attempts to hack the accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users in what the company believes is an attempt to influence the country's upcoming election. "For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns," Eri... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:22:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2148360-google-finds-hack-attempts-eve-iran-election.html 2013-06-13T03:22:12Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2147622-us-payroll-financial-firms-hacked-8-charged.html NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — U.S. prosecutors announced fraud and other charges Wednesday against eight alleged members of an international cybercrime ring that the government said hacked into the computers of more than a dozen leading financial institutions and the U.S. military's payroll service. Prosecutors said the scheme to steal millions from customer accoun... Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:51:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2147622-us-payroll-financial-firms-hacked-8-charged.html 2013-06-12T21:51:41Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2147578-challenges-to-phone-records-face-legal-obstacles.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's massive collection of Americans' phone records is drawing protests and lawsuits from civil liberties groups, but major legal obstacles stand in the way. Among them are government claims that national security secrets will be revealed if the cases are allowed to proceed, and Supreme Court rulings that telephone records, as opposed to convers... Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:01:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2147578-challenges-to-phone-records-face-legal-obstacles.html 2013-06-12T20:01:16Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2145090-google-asks-to-publish-us-govt.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is asking the Obama administration for permission to disclose more details about the U.S. government's demands for email and other personal information transmitted online in an effort to distance itself from an Internet dragnet. In a show of unity, Google rivals Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. also supported the attempt to pr... Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:54:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2145090-google-asks-to-publish-us-govt.html 2013-06-11T21:54:25Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2137148-globally-people-resigned-to-privacy-online.html CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — U.S. government snooping does not surprise global Internet users, who say they already have few expectations of online privacy as governments increasingly monitor people's digital lives and Internet companies often acquiesce. Privacy activists concerned over the U.S. National Security Agency's selective monitoring of Internet tra... Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:31:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2137148-globally-people-resigned-to-privacy-online.html 2013-06-08T10:31:50Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2137624-denials-surveillance-program-require-decoding.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet's most influential companies as willing participants in a secret government program that gives the National Security Agency unfettered access to email and other personal information transmitted on various online services. ... Sat, 08 Jun 2013 02:30:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2137624-denials-surveillance-program-require-decoding.html 2013-06-08T02:30:49Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2134968-nsa-whistleblowers-agency-casts-wide-net.html NEW YORK (AP) — Former employees of the National Security Agency say the publishing of a court order asking Verizon to hand over all its phone calling records for a three-month period opens a new window on an operation that has been in place for years and involves all major U.S. phone companies. "You can bet it's all the other carriers, not just Verizon,"... Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:39:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2134968-nsa-whistleblowers-agency-casts-wide-net.html 2013-06-06T21:39:28Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2133620-2-suspected-danish-police-data-hacking.html COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Swedish founder of the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is suspected along with a Dane of hacking into a company handling sensitive information for the Danish police, officials said Thursday. Denmark's justice minister said hackers accessed "some information" from the Schengen Information System, a large European database on... Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:45:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2133620-2-suspected-danish-police-data-hacking.html 2013-06-06T14:45:18Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2133418-uk-pms-spin-doctor-denies-phone-hacking.html LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron's former spin doctor has formally denied charges of phone hacking and bribery. Andy Coulson entered pleas of not guilty Thursday at London's Southwark Crown Court to conspiring to intercept voice mail messages and conspiring to make illegal payments to public officials. Britain's phone hacking scandal eru... Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:16:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2133418-uk-pms-spin-doctor-denies-phone-hacking.html 2013-06-06T10:16:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2131982-allegations-sex-drugs-roil-baltimore-jail.html BALTIMORE (AP) — Inmates often complain of idleness, but Tavon White apparently had no trouble keeping busy behind bars. Investigators say the man nicknamed "Bulldog" impregnated four female corrections officers at the Baltimore jail while running a sophisticated criminal organization that smuggled in drugs and cell phones and employed guards as gang asso... Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:20:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2131982-allegations-sex-drugs-roil-baltimore-jail.html 2013-06-05T21:20:54Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2130598-rebekah-brooks-denies-phone-hacking-charges.html LONDON (AP) — Rebekah Brooks — a friend of Prime Minister David Cameron and once one of the most powerful people in the British media — on Wednesday formally denied charges of phone hacking, bribing public officials and trying to thwart a police investigation into tabloid wrongdoing. Brooks, the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's News Internationa... Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:05:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2130598-rebekah-brooks-denies-phone-hacking-charges.html 2013-06-05T15:05:25Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2129272-official-describes-rampant-computer-hacking-va.html WASHINGTON (AP) — At least eight foreign-sponsored organizations, mostly connected to the Chinese military, have hacked into computer networks at the Veterans Affairs Department in recent years or were actively trying to do so, a former VA computer security chief told Congress on Tuesday. Jerry Davis, who served as the VA's chief information security offi... Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:27:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2129272-official-describes-rampant-computer-hacking-va.html 2013-06-04T22:27:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2127896-hacker-who-turned-manning-takes-witness-stand.html FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A one-time computer hacker who told authorities Pfc. Bradley Manning was giving information to WikiLeaks testified Tuesday the soldier never said he wanted to help the enemy during their online chats. Manning is on trial for giving hundreds of thousands of documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks. He pleaded guilty to char... Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:05:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2127896-hacker-who-turned-manning-takes-witness-stand.html 2013-06-04T20:05:10Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2127798-silicon-valley-front-global-cyber-war.html SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state's Silicon Valley and its signature high-tech firms should provide the front lines in the increasingly aggressive fight against overseas hackers. With China seeking to grow its economy and ex... Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:13:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2127798-silicon-valley-front-global-cyber-war.html 2013-06-04T14:13:50Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2118142-qatar-government-backs-tighter-online-media-codes.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar's government has backed new Internet codes that widen controls over news websites and online commentary after similar clampdowns by other Gulf Arab states. Western-backed Gulf nations have sharply increased arrests over social media posts on charges that include insulting rulers. Stronger media laws also have been placed in many G... Thu, 30 May 2013 09:08:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2118142-qatar-government-backs-tighter-online-media-codes.html 2013-05-30T09:08:05Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2117252-united-technologies-merger-settlement-approved.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has approved a settlement in which United Technologies Corp. will sell some of its assets as part of its $18.4 billion purchase of aerospace-parts maker Goodrich Corp., the largest merger in aircraft industry history. The settlement between Hartford, Conn., -based United Technologies and the Justice Department was approve... Wed, 29 May 2013 20:47:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2117252-united-technologies-merger-settlement-approved.html 2013-05-29T20:47:45Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2114118-chicago-man-pleads-guilty-ny-hacking-case.html NEW YORK (AP) — A self-described anarchist and "hacktivist" from Chicago pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges he illegally accessed computer systems of law enforcement agencies and government contractors. "As part of each of these hacks, I took and decimated confidential information stored on computer systems websites used by each of the entities," Jeremy Ha... Wed, 29 May 2013 01:21:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2114118-chicago-man-pleads-guilty-ny-hacking-case.html 2013-05-29T01:21:06Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2109688-israeli-expert-syria-cyberattack-foiled.html JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli security expert says Syrian hackers tried to break into the computers of the water system of the city of Haifa. Speaking at a lecture on Saturday in the southern city of Beersheba, Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, Israel's former cyber security adviser, said that a group calling itself "The Syrian Electronic Army" had launched the failed a... Sat, 25 May 2013 14:53:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2109688-israeli-expert-syria-cyberattack-foiled.html 2013-05-25T14:53:54Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2092966-syrian-hackers-compromise-ft-blog-twitter-feeds.html LONDON (AP) — A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which has regularly targeted media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country's rebels. A few of the FT's dozens of Twitter feeds and blogs... Fri, 17 May 2013 18:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2092966-syrian-hackers-compromise-ft-blog-twitter-feeds.html 2013-05-17T18:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2093356-bloomberg-appoints-ex-ibm-ceo-privacy-adviser.html NEW YORK (AP) — Bloomberg LP, the financial news and information service, on Friday said it has appointed Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, as an independent adviser on its privacy and data standards. The move comes a week after revelations that Bloomberg journalists had access to some information on customers' use of Bloomberg's data terminals, in... Fri, 17 May 2013 17:05:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2093356-bloomberg-appoints-ex-ibm-ceo-privacy-adviser.html 2013-05-17T17:05:43Z