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Ransomware Hack of UK Hospitals Part of Global Cyber Attack

Extortionist hackers who may be using leaked computer exploits from the U.S. National Security Agency infiltrated computers in dozens of countries in a fast-spreading attack that forced British hospitals to turn away patients and breached systems at Spain’s Telefonica SA …

Schinnerer Partners With Cloud Provider on Cyber Security Protection

Victor O. Schinnerer & Company and Spanning, an EMC company and provider of SaaS data protection, have released a new cyber security protection product. The collaboration, with help from Microsoft, is designed to help small and mid-size organizations safeguard their …

Apple Ransomware Attack Thwarted Before Large Number of Computers Infected

The first known ransomware attack on Apple Inc.’s Mac computers, which was discovered over the weekend, was downloaded more than 6,000 times before the threat was contained, according to a developer whose product was tainted with the malicious software. Hackers …

Supply Chains Thwart Climate Risk Management for 75 Major Companies: Report

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Coca-Cola Co. and 73 other companies that together buy more than $2 trillion of goods and services are unprepared for climate shocks because suppliers are ignoring requests for data on their exposure to rising temperatures and …

China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear From Draft Anti-Terror Law

China’s proposed anti-terrorism law will not affect the legitimate interests of technology firms, a top Chinese spokeswoman said Wednesday after U.S. President Barack Obama warned of its impact and demanded amendments. China’s proposals, which would require tech firms to provide …

Oklahoma AG: Company Selling Copyright-Infringed Software to Schools

The owners of a Ninnekah, Okla., computer company have been charged with allegedly selling computers containing copyright-infringed software to school districts and city and county governments in southwestern Oklahoma, according to the office of state Attorney General Scott Pruitt. Craig …

Video Game Teaches Kids About Money, Asset Protection and Life

If your kids are chattering non-stop about things like emeralds, pickaxes and creepers, you may have a unique opportunity to turn a video game addiction into a life lesson about money. Minecraft, a video game phenomenon with over 100 million …

California AG Sues Apparel Makers in China and India over Pirated Software

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris filed lawsuits on Thursday against two international apparel manufacturers for gaining an unfair advantage over American companies by using pirated software in the production of clothing imported and sold in the state. The companies, …

Court Bans Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Windows 7 from German Market

A court in Mannheim, Germany ruled on Wednesday that Microsoft infringed Motorola Mobility’s patents and ordered Microsoft to remove its Xbox 360 gaming consoles and Windows 7 operating system software from the German market. Judge Holger Kircher said Microsoft breached …

Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Tracks Customers Without Consent

Microsoft allegedly tracks the location of its mobile customers even after users request that tracking software be turned off, according to a new lawsuit. The proposed class action, filed in a Seattle federal court Wednesday, says Microsoft intentionally designed camera …