Facebook has agreed to make several changes to its services to improve transparency and better protect the personal data of its millions of users outside of the US, following an audit of its international headquarters.
The social media company, which i…
Facebook agrees to security upgrade
FBI contacted phone monitoring firm about software
A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cellphones said Thursday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was rebuffed. The disclosure came one day after FBI …
Full text: Open letter from Silicon Valley execs opposing SOPA
Open letter on SOPA from Google co-founder Sergey Brin; Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey; PayPal co-founder Elon Musk; Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, among others will run as a newspaper ad.
Silicon Valley execs blast SOPA in open letter
Letter opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act, which will run as a newspaper ad, is signed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, among others.
Yahoo! may! never! see! a! penny! of! $610m! anti-spam! win!
Court rules against lotto scammers, whoever they are
Yahoo! has been awarded a $610 million default judgment against spammers who abusing its brand to run a lottery scam.…
Yahoo wins $610m lottery scam case
Spammers sent mails to people falsely informing them that they were winners in a lottery of Yahoo
A New York federal district court judge awarded Yahoo $610m in a lawsuit against spammers who sent mails to people falsely informing them that they were w…
Mamaroneck Woman’s E-mail Hacked
A Town of Mamaroneck woman told police someone hacked into her Yahoo e-mail account and sent messages to friends and family asking for money from Nov.
Yahoo awarded $610 million from lottery spammers
Spammers sent e-mails telling people they had won lottery prizes from Yahoo in order to defraud them, Yahoo claims.
McAfee cuts 3 percent of workforce
Security software maker McAfee laid off about 250 workers, equivalent to 3 percent of its workforce, in a bid to focus on core businesses and improve efficiency in a market led by rival Symantec.
“In order to better prepare the company for growth in 20…
