The Chinese phonemaker was found by the Commerce Department to be doing business with companies in Iran and North Korea, a sanctions no-no.
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ZTE plea deal with US could be “sign of progress”
ZTE could come out from under the boulder of sanctions it has been facing for a year. But it will depend on concise government action.
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AT&T and Time Warner effectively cleared for deal by FCC’s Pai
Chairman Ajit Pai does not foresee his agency scrutinizing the $85.4 billion deal between a telco conglomerate and a media giant.
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Associated Press, Gannett, Vice sue FBI for San Bernardino iPhone hack details
The highest-profile battle over privacy and technology has not ended. In fact, it may have only just begun with a lawsuit filed by three news organizations against the FBI.You may recall that the agency wanted Apple to decrypt an iPhone 5c in the possession of Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the perpetrators of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people and wounded 24 others. Farook and co-perpetrator, wife Tashfeen Malik, were killed shortly after their attack. The FBI claimed it ...
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John Chen: Apple “should have a basic civil responsibility”
BlackBerry CEO John Chen took the time at his company’s Security Summit this week to once again rip Apple, “the other fruit company” to shreds for defending its encryption against the FBI regarding an iPhone used by a suspect in a mass shooting.“I found that disturbing as a citizen. I think BlackBerry, like any company, should have a basic civil responsibility,” Chen said. “If the world is in ...
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Disbursements out for Apple iBooks settlement
The Justice Department went after Apple in 2012, alleging that it worked with publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster to fix the prices of many of their e-books sold at the iBooks store. In 2014, Apple settled for $400 million and agreed to credit applicable customers some ...
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Justice Department on Apple v. Samsung sides with chaebol
The same Justice Department that was able to snare through a couple of iPhones’ encryption is siding with Samsung on a years-long patent suit that’s about to be taken up by the Supreme Court.The department has penned an amicus brief on behalf of the chaebol and against Apple, calling for a new trial.“We welcome the ...
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Brooklyn iPhone cracked by Justice Department, obviates case with Apple
The iPhone belonging to a confessed drug dealer in Brooklyn has been cracked into. But it wasn’t opened with the zero-day exploit that the FBI purchased supposedly from a gray hat hacker. Someone else just knew the passcode for the iPhone. Prosecutors in the case ...
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ACLU: at least 76 All Writs Act Orders taken on iPhones, Android phones since 2008
The FBI may be done asking Apple to crack into an iPhone 5c from San Bernardino for it. Apple wants the agency to give up getting its engineers to decrypt an iPhone in Brooklyn.But it’s not just the FBI that has asked help with accessing data from case-critical iPhones. And ...
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Apple: FBI crack method in San Bernardino iPhone may help in Brooklyn
We’re at a crossroads in Apple’s fight to overturn an order issued by the FBI to assist in decrypting an alleged mass shooter’s iPhone. The FBI is currently testing a hacking method it has learned from “an outside ...
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Apple ID password on San Bernardino iPhone changed in FBI custody
Apple believes it is fighting a fight that should not have had to surface in the first place. As Cupertino is in the midst of digging up facts and arguments to counter a law enforcement order and the US government’s subsequent force de frappe in enforcing it, it has found a key fact that could subvert the basis of that order.The company was ...
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