A widely reported Russian cyber-spying campaign against diplomatic targets in the United States and elsewhere has been using two previously unknown flaws in software to penetrate target machines, a security company investigating the matter said. FireEye Inc., a prominent U.S. security company, said the espionage effort took advantage of holes in Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash software for viewing active content and Microsoft Corp.’s ubiquitous Windows operating system.
· Read the article: Reuters
Germany to Limit Online Investment Opportunities
Germany is preparing a law limiting startups’ abilities to raise investment money via online platforms in a bid to protect savers and support innovation. The ruling coalition has agreed on rules for crowdinvesting, according to Frank Steffel, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats who worked on the planned law.
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Monitor Says Apple Cooperating Less in Antitrust Compliance
Apple Inc’s cooperation with a court-appointed monitor has “sharply declined” as he reviews the iPad maker’s antitrust compliance policies, the monitor wrote in a report to a judge. Michael Bromwich, who became Apple’s monitor after it was found liable for conspiring to raise e-book prices, said in a report on Thursday that Apple objected to providing information and “inappropriately” attempted to limit his activities.
· Read the article: Reuters
Microsoft Pushing European Probe of Google
Microsoft has links, to varying degrees, with the three initial complainants that sparked the European antitrust investigation into Google. And Microsoft’s activity gained momentum as a new European government re-energized the investigation.
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