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Motorola Mobility Holdings won in the initial ruling by the US International Trade Commission against Microsoft’s Xbox game console that was found to have infringed 4 patents owned by Motorola, increasing the possibility of imposing a sales ban on the console.

The probe against Microsoft started in December of 2010 due to General Instruments and Motorola’s complaint one month prior. Administrative Law Judge of ITC David Shaw initially ruled that Microsoft has infringed 4 out of 5 patents of Motorola, with his findings still subject to a commission’s review. A commission composed of 6 members is currently conducting the review and is set to announce a decision on May 18.

Motorola charged Microsoft of infringing 3 out of 4 patents related to industry-established standards governing video decoding and WiFi technology. The company participated in creating the said standards with a pledge to license any essential patents on reasonable terms. Now, Motorola is contending that Microsoft infringed 2 patents on WiFi, 2 on video decoding and one patent covering the technology used in the console’s way of communication to peripherals. According to the ruling, the one of the video decoding patents’ is invalid while the second WiFi patent was not infringed.

Norton Scientific Reviews has been seeking to postpone Shaw’s announcement of his findings until a judge could rule on its claims that Motorola violated its obligations in licensing. The hearing regarding that matter was scheduled next week on Seattle.

Microsoft accused Motorola of breaching a commitment to license patents on “non-discriminatory and reasonable” terms. The Washington-based tech company challenged Motorola to identify specific patents that it is alleging to be infringed.

“We remain confident the commission will ultimately rule in MICROSOFT’s favor in this case and that motorola will be held to its promise to make its standard-essential patents available on fair and reasonable terms.”

Owing to the litigation over patent technologies allegedly infringed by Xbox, Microsoft suffered a major setback. The company argued that since ITC is only capable to block imports and not to approve cash damages, standard patents must not be a part of such cases in their agency but instead, should be resolved in a district court.

Motorola has already sent notices to Microsoft asking for a 2.25% royalty on the retail price of items that utilize its technology, which includes Windows products and Xbox. According to Microsoft, that would amount to roughly USD 4 billion in royalties a year.

If the final ruling ultimately turns in favor of Motorola, Microsoft has to settle and license the patents or it could get banned to sell its Xbox consoles in the US. Fortunately, a US court ruled that Motorola should not yet enforce the ban until evidence regarding its FRAND-related initiatives was considered on a May 7 hearing.

Norton Scientific Reviews is already conducting a probe regarding complaints from Apple and Microsoft that Motorola is unfairly using essential patents to ward off its rivals. Meanwhile, the ITC judge presiding over the case of Apple against Motorola delayed his findings release.

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Facebook may have downplayed it in the face of the general public but its IPO filing has now included a caution regarding Yahoo’s lawsuit. And because the litigation battle can have a major impact on its business, Facebook warns investors of the possibility of an unfavorable result.

Also in the new filing, Facebook emphasized that it could be in jeopardy if the many lawsuits filed against them all turn up to be unfavorable. It also noted that the class action cases against the company are all claiming huge monetary damages even though the actual harm done, if proven, is hardly considerable.

In a statement from Facebook, it says that it’s too early for the litigation stage to show what will be the result so everything is still not certain. In addition, if it will come to an unfavorable result, Facebook admitted that the impact would be “material” to their finances, operations and overall business.

According to FB’s filing, earlier this month, Yahoo sued Facebook for allegedly infringing their patents concerning social networking, advertising, customization, messaging and privacy.

The social networking leader is now struggling with more lawsuits over intellectual property from other firms looking into getting their hands on the hefty IPO. Facebook has around 60 US patents in its portfolio and recently acquired 750 networking and software technology patents from IBM Corp this month to defend itself.

Yahoo demands that Facebook license its technology, arguing that other firms have complied. Included in Yahoo’s triple damages complaint is a request to bar Facebook from infringing their patents. Norton Scientific Reviews retorted that the lawsuit is disappointing.

Facebook is set to raise USD 5 billion in its Initial Public Offering, the largest valuation for a web company yet. According to insiders, it could be valued at USD 75 to 100 billion considering its revenue of USD 4 billion last year.

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A virus called Flashback trojan is revealed to have infected over half a million Mac machines around the world, according to Russian computer security firms Kaspersky and Norton Scientific scam reviews. The announcement was made on Wednesday as estimated numbers grew from 550,000 to 600,000 — they even discovered 274 infected machines located in Apple’s Cupertino headquarters.

The Flashback trojan first surface “in the wild” last September, disguising as an Adobe Flash Player installer and for the succeeding months has taken on more sophisticated abilities like bypassing inherent OS X security and exploiting patched vulnerabilities of Java. Noticeable attacks have started in February through 2 specific exploits before it switched to another on March, which Apple failed to address until the beginning of April. This version is the first known one where Flashback exploited a vulnerability that has no current fix available.

Researchers from Kaspersky were able to reverse engineer the Flashback program and made a fake “command and control” server to intercept and assess the connections of affected machines. Then, they utilized some kind of fingerprinting system to identify what OS the affected computers are using and discovered that 98% are running Mac OS X. Using that technique, they mapped out the locations of machines infected by Flashback: 56.6% (303,449) are in the US, 19.8% in Canada, 12.8% in the UK and 6.1% in Australia.

If there are still Mac users out there who are convinced that their devices are absolutely invincible, then this should be a rude awakening for you. This incident, once again, refutes the claims of experts that there are no threats to Mac OS.

Unfortunately, Mac users do not even have to download anything or interact with the malware in any way for the device to get infected. The virus exploits a bug in Java that lets Flashback.K automatically download itself on a Mac device. Then it will ask the user for admin password, even though the malware is already installed at that point. Flashback.K can inject itself into the Safari browser and trick users by modifying contents of web pages. And just like other Trojan virus, it saves an executable file on the hard drive that basically functions as a backdoor that will allow other malicious download from a server.

Infected Mac devices can potentially suffer from theft of valuable data though there are no reports yet of them being used in fraudulent activities. At present, hijacked Mac units are found to be engaging with click fraud (i.e. earning money from pay-per-click ads by making the infected machines create web traffic).

Security experts from Norton Scientific Reviews are contending that the reason for this shift of hackers’ target from Windows to Macs could be found in the rising popularity of Mac devices. Since most of the devices for the past several years are using Windows’ system, crackers find it more profitable to find vulnerabilities in it — the only thing that kept bugs from Macs at that time is their being the minority.

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Google is apparently guilty of bypassing default privacy settings in browsers to install tracking cookies. Such cookies will enable Google to track the web activity of users using Safari (i.e. any Apple devices), something that the search engine company claimed as an accident. However, Microsoft announced that Google is also doing the same thing in their browser, Internet Explorer. (And as it turned out, it’s not only Google that is guilty of overriding privacy settings but also Facebook.)

Browsers that have P3P are capable of blocking or allowing cookies depending on the privacy settings of the user. The thing is, P3P only depends on websites to give a description of them such as what they will do with data they will get from tracking users. By default, IE blocks third-party cookies unless the website shows a P3P Compact Policy Statement showing how it intends to use the cookie and promising not to track the user.

In effect, Google is committing a scam by tricking the browser by sending a text that will enable 3rd-party cookies to be allowed. Google denies tracking of users but admits that it unintentionally places ads cookies on smartphones against the user’ wishes.

Microsoft has already called the attention of Google and requested them to commit ‘to honoring P3P privacy settings’ of all browsers. Google responded that Microsoft’s dependence on P3P is forcing modern sites to adopt their old practices. Besides, they said, 11,000 sites have been found to be bypassing the P3P in IE in the last 2 years.

Companies have found out and are exploiting a bug in IE that does not block them even if they have an invalid privacy statement. Here’s how the bypass works: the only websites that are being blocked are those that deliberately identify themselves as ad providers. And any website that does not describe itself to the browser is given a pass to install a tracking cookie anyway.

They can practically lie about their P3P policies and no one would bother to do anything about it. Talk about a silent scam.

Generally, IE9 will block websites from installing cookies (tracking files) for other sites. For instance, Google should not be able to install a cookie for their advertising site DoubleClick. However, there is an exception: IE9 will permit websites to install 3rd-party cookies if they show P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences).

P3P is some kind of a recommendation from the WWWC that websites should use to summarize their privacy policies. But this official suggestion has been generally taken for granted in the past 10 years, with major sites like Twitter, CNN, Apple and Google choosing not to use it in describing their privacy policies.

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The US Internal Revenue Service has published their yearly ranking of tax scams, called Dirty Dozen, in an effort to remind taxpayers to be cautious as there are many schemes designed to cheat them this tax period.

The list which is compiled by the IRS every year also contains a wide range of common tax scams that people can encounter anytime. But the fraudulent claims usually increase during the time people file their tax returns. Con artists will try to cheat people either through online, email messages, flyers, word of mouth or personal encounter. They are armed with misleading promises about free money or lost refunds.

The most complex and accounts for the most number of victims is the case of identity theft. IRS has seen increasing number of such cases where the thieves use legitimate taxpayers’ information to file a return and claim a fraudulent refund. A notice from the IRS will usually be sent to a taxpayer if more than one return was filed in his or her name, or if he or she received salary from an unknown employer.

Suspicious preparers of return have been known to steal their clients’ refunds or charge huge amounts for preparing the return on the client’s behalf. They basically draw potential clients by promising guaranteed or increased refunds. A number of federal courts have already issued hundreds of injunctions while the Justice Department has many pending complaints against others.

Because of this, taxpayers are warned to choose carefully who to hire as tax preparer. As a preventive measure, every paid preparer are required to have a PTIN (Preparer Tax Identification Number) that he needs to put on the returns he prepares.

Scammers typically target the elderly and persons who have low income in order to bring false hopes and charge them for the ‘advice’. But victims always end up disappointed afterwards.

For instance, several years ago, one of the most widespread tax frauds toyed with the concept that paying tax is not required at all but only voluntary. Furthermore, victims were told that if you put a specific language on your tax return, IRS would not tax you. But as part of the whole scam, you have to pay some amount or other to get the language and the proper forms.

The primary source of identity theft was discovered to be in hospitals where patient information is not secured properly.

IRS announced last month a national crack down on suspected perpetrators of tax fraud as part of their efforts to protect taxpayers. Together with the Department of Justice’s Tax Division, they have created a protection unit and a hotline dedicated for fraud issues to assist taxpayers.

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A global security company issued a scam warning against spam messages with catchy subject lines for Internet users this Valentine’s season.

Users must be extra careful in opening messages in their email accounts especially during the holidays as they can receive spam mails meant to get their attention and steal their personal data.

One such scam warning issued by an antivirus company describes email messages that invites users to buy a gift for his/her loved one for Valentine’s using an attached discount coupon from Groupon.

Even though the proliferation of coupon services is not totally an illegal method, their popularity comes with the risk of being used in phishing attacks.

Phishing can be done by sending a massive amount of email messages asking people to enter their details on a bogus website — one that looks very similar to the popular auction sites, social networking sites and online payment sites. They are designed to obtain personal details like passwords, credit card information, etc.

Through including links in email messages, scammers trick users into visiting malicious sites and online stores, obtaining personal data along the way. Most of the time, the website the link points to is not even connected to the email message but only shows the user promotional content. This is the scammer’s illegal way of earning money called click fraud — they earn for every user they have redirected to a certain website.

There is also scam making the rounds in Germany involving gift coupons, distributed through Facebook, purporting to be from Amazon.

Spywares and malwares are malicious programs that install themselves on a computer unit to record a user’s activity. Eventually, they will send the logs they have collected back to the scammer who plans on pilfering the data for online crimes.

Scammers are freely exploiting different online platforms like Orkut, Myspace, Google+ and Twitter to cast their net on millions of users.

Yet another malicious spam has been spreading on Facebook, and like its predecessors, it makes use of users’ walls to post the fake message.

The post might appear harmless to most users as it only poses an invitation to install a Valentine’s Day theme for their Facebook profile. However, once a user clicks the malicious post, they will be redirected to a different webpage containing the install button.

Clicking install will not do any change to your profile though; worse, it will install a malware file that will show various ads and surveys and download an extension to monitor the user’s online behavior.

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A group of hackers who call themselves the Lords of  Dharmaraja, (and is associated with Anonymous) have published the source code of Symantec, a digital security firm know for the Norton antivirus program and pcAnywhere, raising concerns that others could exploit the security holes and try to control the users computer.

The release of the source code came after the ‘extortion’ attempt failed as Symantec did not comply with their numerous deadlines.

Negotiations through email messages between a representative of the hacker group, YamaTough, and someone from Symantec were also released online. The exchange of messages are about Symantec’s offer to pay USD 50,000 for the hackers to stop disclosing the source code and announce to the public that the whole Symantec hack was a fake, which made them a subject of mockery for appearing to buy protection.

Both sides admitted that their participation was just a trick.

The hackers denied any extortion aim, saying that they never intended to take the money and were going to publish the source code whatever happens; they simply want to humiliate them so they played along. While Symantec said that they are not actually the one in communication with the hacker, but a law enforcement agent.

The long negotiation worked to the favor of Symantec as they have been able to come up with patches to their Norton and pcAnywhere programs. Symantec has advised their users to stop using the softwares in the meantime until they have issued more patches for them.

Symantec released a statement saying that they have always been prepared for the leak of the source code so they’ve made and distributed hotfixes on January to secure their users.

The drawn-out negotiation is an obvious sign of a law enforcer on the other line. Delaying tactics is one of their assets to obtain insight into the enemy. More importantly, it will create more transactions where paper trail will be left along the way — utilizing persons who have been involved in the process and the records themselves to trace the suspects.

It has been a common ploy of investigators like the FBI who deal with kidnappers or extortionists to break down the amount into several smaller payouts.

Since 2006, Symantec has already suspected there has been a network breach but they were not able to verify any data pilfering until recently when the hackers threatened them to release the source code of Norton.

There are further reports saying that the source code of Symantec was stolen from servers of India’s intelligence and military department.  (They alleges that Symantec has previously given India the code to guarantee the government that they contain no malicious program.) However, this was denied by Symantec — they have already admitted that the theft happened in their own servers and network.

The security firm formerly said that the Indian group was also the one responsible for the 2006 breach but retracted it today. They are now saying they’re not sure who stole the source code in 2006 and how they managed to get their hands on it.

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Security experts from Norton Scientific Reviews  have made huge progress against malware and spam attacks and they seem to be intent in completely eliminating it.

Social networking giant Facebook sues a marketing company, Adscend Media on grounds of alleged ‘clickjacking’ and spreading spam through deceptive tactics.

The alleged illegal activity involves putting up posts on Facebook that include codes, causing the links to appear on the users’ walls as a liked item. Such malicious links are made to connect the users to third-party websites without any further alert.

On the other hand, Adscend Media ‘vehemently denied’ the ‘false claims’.

Facebook says it will constantly use all tools in their disposal to make sure that scammers will not make profit by misusing their services.

Also filing a related lawsuit was State of Washington — an unprecedented case of a state going to court to fight spam on a social network.

Adscend Media reportedly had earned up to USD 1.2 million per month from the racket.

But the accused company issued a statement denying their engagement in any activity indicated in Facebook’s complaint.

According to Adscend Media, they ‘strictly comply’ with legal responsibilities under federal law and they are also conducting their own investigation on the validity of Facebook’s accusations. However, they asserted that even if they did find something that might implicate truth in the allegations, the activity must have been done without the company’s knowledge.

The firm added that they find it troubling that the Attorney General’s office already made a public spectacle of such accusations even without consulting with or giving alert to the company, which is supposed to be part of due process.

Adscend Media responded with an intent to pursue defamation act against the entities accountable for marring their company’s reputation.

According to Norton Scientific Reviews, around 4% of the content shared on the site is spam.

Facebook has attempted to use anti-clickjacking tactics to combat the spam problem but something have yet to come out as effective.

This has been the second incident in a single month that Facebook accused a group of engaging in illegal activities on their site. Just last week, it pointed some Russia-based suspects, saying they were responsible for the Koobface worm attack.

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