In a win for consumers and businesses alike, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that companies can’t use patent laws to prevent secondary uses of their products in a case that, not surprisingly, involved printer cartridges. In the case, Lexmark International Inc. argued that Impression Products Inc., a company that refills and sells used Lexmark ...

The notorious hacking group Shadow Brokers have revealed more details on its new exploit as a service offering, and for both black-hat and white-hat hackers, access to the trove of exploits won’t come cheap. The service, simply called “TheShadowBrokers Monthly Dump Service,” will cost those interested in subscribing 100 ZCash a month, currently worth approximately ...

A new form of malware dubbed “Judy” is believed to have infected up to 36.5 million Android device users, according to research published last week. Discovered by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Judy was found to be bundled with 41 apps in the Google Play Store developed by a Korean company called Kiniwini that uses the name ...

Pacemakers may save lives but they are also highly vulnerable to hacking, at least according to a report from a security firm published last week. Security research firm WhiteScope LLC made the claim after studying “implantable cardiac devices,” physician programmers and home monitoring devices for four major manufacturers, finding that there were over 8,000 software vulnerabilities in ...

Hot on the heels of a court ruling that struck down the Federal Aviation Administration’s ability to force owners of noncommercial drones to register them, a newly proposed law would give state and local governments the ability to create their own drone regulations. The Drone Federalism Act, which has the backing of Democratic and Republican members of Congress including ...

A revision to a controversial proposed bill that would allow victims of hacking to legally hack their hackers back was tabled Friday by Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.). The proposed law, the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act, would allow victims of a cyberattack to access the computer of an attacker to disrupt the attack and gather information to establish attribution. While ...

Microsoft Corp. has filed a lawsuit alleging a Chinese company illegally accessed Xbox accounts to purchase game currencies using the credit card details of the victims. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court Northern District of California and first discovered by Bleeping Computer, alleges that Gameest International Network Sales Co. Ltd., Weiwei Chu and Does 1-20 ...

Marc Newson, the Apple Inc. designer who along with Jony Ive gave the world the Apple Watch, has turned to a new form of timekeeping — in this case, an insanely expensive and ostentatious hourglass. The “Marc Newson Hourglass For HODINKEE” is a limited-edition hourglass that doesn’t feature sand but instead what are described as ...

Users of popular media players such as Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time are being urgently warned to update their software after it was discovered that hackers could embed hidden computer viruses in the subtitles used by the services. Discovered by security firm Check Point Security Technologies Ltd., the new attack vector involves hackers crafting malicious files ...

The judge presiding over the Waymo Inc. lawsuit alleging that Uber Technologies Inc. stole its self-driving car technology has delivered another blow to the ride-hailing giant. The ruling says Uber must hand over an unredacted version of a due-diligence report it prepared prior to its purchase of Otto, the company founded by former Google Inc. engineer Anthony ...