2012-02-06T17:58:09Z

Hacked lawyers who defended Marine over Iraqi deaths

Anonymous has leaked a trove of emails relating to the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha after hacking into a law firm's systems.…

2012-02-06T16:23:05Z

Wartime codebreaker's 'absurd' conviction must stand

The UK government has turned down a call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing.…

2012-02-06T15:36:05Z

'At no stage did any DPA suggest pause was necessary'

Google has rejected calls from the European Union's watchdog to delay imminent changes to the Chocolate Factory's privacy policy.…

2012-02-06T14:18:02Z

Just wait for that nice Brussels man to agree

Updated  BT will be forced to cut the prices of the access charges it applies to the company's broadband and telephone lines when leasing them out to other providers, Ofcom said today.…

2012-02-06T13:03:03Z

Nabbed and jailed after Secret Service sting

A job-seeking Hungarian hacker who tried to land work with Marriott by hacking into the hotel chain's network before "offering" to sort out the resulting mess has been found guilty of hacking and attempted extortion and jailed for 30 months.…

2012-02-06T12:47:03Z

Internet firms comply with court order

Facebook and Google have removed content from Indian domain websites in response to a court order to get rid of "objectionable content".…

2012-02-06T12:13:09Z

ISPs once again asked to police interwebs

Update  Internet service providers must do better at removing violent material from websites, a group of MPs thundered today.…

2012-02-06T09:39:09Z

Claimants who do not comply will be 'nudged' by 'back office' workers

Universal credit – the government's "new and improved" benefits system – will be the first major government service to be digital by default.…

2012-02-06T08:58:08Z

Welcome to the internet, doc

A leading GP has declared that the general public are too rude about doctors on the internet in a complaint that may amuse those of us more familiar with the culture of "Internet feedback".…

2012-02-06T03:00:04Z

Don't nick the source code kids

Computer Associates has won a protracted legal battle against Sydney based software company Independent Systems Integrators ( ISI).…

2012-02-05T21:49:37Z

Whip? Check. Dead horse? Check.

Movies studios are moving on the defunct Limewire, filing a complaint in a US Federal Court to take their cut from the company’s copyright infringments.…

2012-02-03T21:58:24Z

Rival small-business boosters, Obama foes disagree

One advocacy group has published a survey it says proves that US small-business owners aren't unduly concerned with government regulations. Another group says that the first group's opinion poll is tainted by bogosity.…

2012-02-03T19:11:06Z

Poles stall, Slovenian ambassador calls for protests

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty, signed by most European countries last week, may not be a done deal after all, as governments across the continent face a storm of protest.…

2012-02-03T17:11:07Z

Were you talking about us?

Members of Anonymous have released an intercept of a conference call between investigators at the FBI and Scotland Yard during which operations against hacktivist group were discussed.…

2012-02-03T12:37:06Z

Take a pause while French DP officers frisk you, Larry

A European Union watchdog has written to Google boss Larry Page asking him to explain how personal data will be safeguarded when the search giant puts its revised privacy policy into effect on 1 March.…

2012-02-03T05:33:51Z

Supreme Court is final shot for WikiLeaker-in-chief

The UK Supreme Court judges have retired to consider their verdict in Julian Assange’s last shot at escaping extradition to Sweden, with a final verdict possible within weeks.…

2012-02-02T22:15:12Z

Get your better mousetrap here

KiwiNet has launched a database of New Zealand university IP with a aim to attract companies interested in developing and commercialising NZ-led research.…

2012-02-02T17:23:04Z

Feds to consult on the issue

Sprint has given LightSquared another six weeks to get FCC approval for its controversial LTE network, otherwise the wannabe operator will have to build its own network rather than piggybacking on Sprint's.…

2012-02-02T13:29:05Z

Fined for unfair competition in online cartography

A French court has found Google Maps guilty of unfair competition and ordered the Chocolate Factory to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping firm.…

2012-02-02T13:03:04Z

MPs want new standard plus web security schooling

The government and industry ought to do more to promote online safety, according to an influential panel of MPs.…

2012-02-02T11:44:09Z

IPO filing: Spamvalanche could kill us

Facebook has been the first internet company to baldly state the risks it faces from hacking and spam to the markets since the SEC issued guidance on the issue.…

2012-02-02T11:32:07Z

Scotland Yard keeps mum

Scotland Yard officers investigating allegations of computer hacking by News International staff have declined to "give a running commentary" on their probe, batting away MP Tom Watson's narration of the saga.…

2012-02-02T10:44:11Z

More of a shunt than a glide

Average broadband speeds in Blighty are on the up, communications watchdog Ofcom concluded in a report published this morning.…

2012-02-02T10:19:08Z

We'll do that as you report it, says Choc Factory lawyer

Former Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw said Google could stop links to the material appearing in results but decides not to. He made the comments during a question-and-answer session conducted by the Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions.…

2012-02-02T00:17:12Z

Poor wording breaks petition’s T&Cs

The White House has said it won’t be responding to a petition calling for an investigation into whether comments by MPAA head Chris Dodd about paying for political support constituted an admission of bribery.…

2012-02-01T23:30:10Z

Freetards mourn Ex.ua with the usual DDOS attacks

Microsoft Ukraine has disclaimed responsibility for the shut-down of Ukranian file-sharing site Ex.ua, which that country’s government has shuttered for copyright infringement.…

2012-02-01T22:21:12Z

Football codes' case crashes, burns

Optus has vanquished Telstra and its claims on a multi million dollar rights deal for the online broadcasting of National Rugby League (NRL) and Australian Football League (AFL) footage.…

2012-02-01T15:19:03Z

No offence to refuse in Blighty

Vid  So-called 'smart meters' will not be mandatory, the energy minister has confirmed. The pledge was made by Charles Hendry last Thursday, and confirmed to us by the Department of Energy and Climate Change today.…

2012-02-01T15:02:11Z

Space probe apparently not built to fly in space

Russian space boffins have come up with a new reason to explain why duff Martian probe Phobos-Grunt fell out of the sky - cosmic rays.…

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2012-02-01T14:43:10Z

Card cloner's 'bizarre initiation tests' to weed out undercover Feds

A US card cloner forced would-be gang members to take part in group sex sessions as part of an initiation ceremony designed to weed out undercover cops, according to a detective.…

2012-02-01T14:19:11Z

Test drive new Gov.uk beta build today

A beta build of the Cabinet Office's single domain website project has now been opened up for public scrutiny.…

2012-02-01T13:56:10Z

Freedom fighters's MegaRetrieval to snatch back family snaps

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a self-proclaimed people's champion in the battlefield of digital rights, has waded into the controversy around the MegaUpload site, hoping to help legit users of the site to recover their 'lawful' content.…

2012-02-01T13:52:09Z

Legal ship sails, slammer time for four MIA founders

The four founders behind The Pirate Bay saw their final attempt to appeal against an earlier ruling rejected in Sweden's Supreme Court today.…

2012-02-01T13:41:07Z

Alleged Royal Navy, Pentagon invader gets keelhauled

Romanian police have arrested a man suspected of breaking into the websites of NASA and the Pentagon in a series of high-profile hack attacks.…

2012-02-01T11:00:11Z

Just how workable is the Euro commissioner's proposal?

Analysis  It's been a busy few days for the future of data protection at a European level. However, the celebrations and commiserations are well and truly over for policy wonks, internet businesses and watchdogs who have all been eagerly poring over the Justice Commissioner's freshly-tabled draft Data Protection (DP) bill. Now the real work begins.…

2012-02-01T10:41:03Z

That's a lot of bandwidth - how do we handle it?

Ofcom has launched a public consultation on the management of 37GHz of radio spectrum, looking for better ways to manage licensing of fixed wireless links.…

2012-02-01T10:18:10Z

Probe into airline staff forum 'will not breach privacy rights'

A trade union has been ordered to let an independent expert examine its computer database to try to identify anonymous users of a forum it operated who allegedly defamed and harassed an airline pilot.…

2012-02-01T09:24:04Z

Report: Public sector may struggle to support Cabinet plan

The Cabinet Office has revealed "concern" over whether the public sector's IT is up to the job of supporting more transparency, from responses to last year's open data consultation.…

2012-02-01T09:04:09Z

Malware backdoors government-targeted kit 'using Adobe 0-days'

Security watchers have uncovered a new highly targeted email-borne attack that uses a supposed conference invitation as a lure - and disguises extracted data as Microsoft Update traffic.…

2012-02-01T08:02:07Z

HMRC man eyes NHS and local government

The government expects to cut at least £100m off its annual personal computing bill under an HMRC led standardisation program.…

2012-01-31T19:33:55Z

Not my fault, blame the DOJ

President Obama has said he has nothing to do with the decision by US authorities to extradite British student Richard O’Dwyer on copyright charges for linking to pirated content.…

2012-01-31T16:54:01Z

Chocolate Factory promises it's not locking your privates in a vice

Google has responded to US politicos who demanded answers after the advertising giant announced it was "simplifying" its privacy policies across its huge online estate.…

2012-01-31T16:01:02Z

Do GCHQ and the NSA have some catching up to do?

Analysis  Israel, Finland and Sweden are more prepared than larger nations to fight a conflict in cyberspace, according to a McAfee-backed cyber-defence study.…

2012-01-31T14:43:09Z

Korean firm may be abusing 3G standards with Apple lawsuits

The European Union has formally started an antitrust investigation of Samsung over its use of standards-related 3G patents in its patent battles around the world.…

2012-01-31T14:37:07Z

That whole Itanium death thing rumbles on through the courts

A US judge has dismissed an Oracle fraud claim against HP in the companies' ongoing legal battle over the Itanium platform.…

2012-01-31T13:19:10Z

Philippe Starck designs last Navigo card

The Paris Metro will be getting new payment cards next year, cards which pave the way to board-by-bonk phones by being compatible with the NFC standard.…

2012-01-31T12:13:07Z

Barth trio invalidated, multimillion income stream dries up

Legal attack dog Rambus has suffered another blow to its memory technology licensing business after a US patent office appeals board declared three Barth patents invalid.…

2012-01-31T11:43:04Z

UK.gov also talks up new national cybercrime fighting force

UK citizens can now gawp at the amount of crime committed around nightclubs, railway stations, parks and other hotspots on a revamped website launched by the Home Office. The same site will also eventually track arrests and charges brought against wrongdoers.…

2012-01-31T10:39:11Z

Droid lovers will have to source their own love gloves

Kent's NHS Trust is hoping that youngsters' love of iPhones, coupled with a new app, will lead to a fall in teen pregnancies in the county.…

2012-01-31T09:43:10Z

Fined for not 'fessing up and for Twitter outburst

A barrister has been struck off and fined after failing to disclose that he was the owner of a copyright-infringing website that he represented during trial - and for posting abusive Twitter messages.…