Apple Pay saw 1 million activations in first three days

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EFF rates companies on willingness to fight 'copyright and trademark bullies' Retain private data for police use or face $685,000 fine, Swedish authority tells ISP Network World Daily News AM October 28, 2014 Apple Pay saw 1 million activations in first three days Apple's new contactless payment system on the iPhone 6 saw 1 million activations in its first three days of use, pointing to an initially enthusiastic response from Apple users.The number was revealed by Apple CEO Tim Cook during an on-stage interview late Monday at The Wall Street Journal's technology conference in Laguna Beach, California, and was reported by WSJ writers on a live blog.Cook said he uses it himself at his local Whole Foods supermarket.Apple Pay was released on October 20 and allows users to make tap-and-go payments from their smartphones at retailer terminals equipped with wireless NFC (near-field communication) readers, of which there are over 200,000 in the U.S.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 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Learn More EFF rates companies on willingness to fight 'copyright and trademark bullies' Copyright and trademark law are often the weapon of choice when corporate content producers become unhappy with how their works of used, even in cases where such uses are legal.The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday issued a report and scorecard revealing its assessment of how major service providers and social media platforms respond when copyright and trademark holders use those weapons indiscriminately.From an EFF press release. EFF examined 13 companies and issued stars if they met the baseline standards for what a service can do to defend its users' speech against copyright and trademark bullies.  The services could receive a maximum of five stars, based on criteria including publicly documented procedures for responses to DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices, how the services handle trademark disputes, and if the company issued detailed transparency reports.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Retain private data for police use or face $685,000 fine, Swedish authority tells ISP Swedish ISP Bahnhof must resume retaining customer communications metadata for police use by the end of November or pay a fine of 5 million Swedish Kronor (US$685,000), the Swedish telecom authority has ruled.Bahnhof should comply with Swedish law requiring ISPs to retain customers' location and traffic metadata for six months for law enforcement purposes, the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) said Monday.Bahnhof will fight the order, CEO Jon Karlung said Tuesday.The ISP stopped retaining the communications metadata and deleted all records with the permission of the authority after a May ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the EU's Data Retention Directive because it seriously interfered with fundamental privacy rights.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Microsoft opens Office 365 to programmers Extending Office 365 functionality to third-party developers, Microsoft has exposed a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) so other companies can add features and capabilities to the online productivity service.The company announced the new functionality at the TechEd Europe conference, held this week in Barcelona.The APIs are a way for third-party programs to access the information and capabilities of the online office suite, including those for user mail, files, calendar and contacts.Microsoft is "clearly trying to keep Office front and center in the new world of mobile devices," wrote Al Hilwa, program director for software development research at IDC. "The approach of moving to APIs is the right strategy for providing extensibility to services like Office 365 in the era of cloud. I would expect that they will keep building on these APIs over time, but they are handling the most important areas in this wave, which relate to email integration."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Brother International Corp. How Secure are your Web Meetings? OmniJoin offers a full suite of security features to give you the peace of mind that your web meetings are as secure as you need them to be. Learn More>> Apple responds to recent Apple Pay controversy involving Rite Aid and CVS Since going operational last week, Apple Pay has been greeted enthusiastically by iPhone 6 users, participating retailers, and banks. Highlighting this fact, Wells Fargo yesterday began a new promotion offering customers a $20 credit the first time they try out Apple Pay.But not everyone out there is feeling the Apple Pay love. Over the past few days, both Rite Aid and CVS have taken pro-active steps to disable support or Apple Pay at all of their nationwide store locations. The reason is because both nationwide pharmacy chains belong to a consortium of retailers who belong to Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX). MCX in early 2015 will be releasing a competing mobile payment platform called CurrentC. The rub here is that retailers who support CurrentC are not allowed to support any other type of mobile payment platform. In short, this is nothing more than anti-competitive behavior that does nothing to benefit consumers and only serves to benefit retail companies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Clues point to Russia in long-running spying campaign Russia is likely behind a long-running computer spying campaign, although the stealthy attacks leave fewer clues than other state-sponsored attacks, according to a new report from FireEye.FireEye calls the group APT28, which is short for "advanced persistent threat," a nomenclature the company's Mandiant division has used to classify attacks its analysts believe come from a distinct group.APT has been active for at least six years. It tends to focus on targets that would be of interest to Russia, such as the Caucasus region with a focus on Georgia and European governments, militaries and security organizations.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Bing lets you dig behind the smiley face with emoji search Bing now supports searches with emoji, meaning you can insert or paste a range of emoji icons like hearts, smiley faces, food graphics, or any combination thereof, for some interesting, though not always useful, results.It's a novelty feature, yes, but still fun. And one that could help Bing draw at least some attention away from Google. Google at the moment does not give results for emoji searches, though its auto-complete technology does recognize them. 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That demand, in turn, is fueling a rapid expansion of the cyber insurance industry that was little more than a niche offering five years ago. But insurance industry experts and corporate security professionals offer words of caution for companies that think they may want to insure their cyber risks. The cyber insurance market, they say, is still new. Companies that want to buy such a product would do well to understand their needs and the limitations of cyber coverage before they put their money on the table.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Feds set to destroy H-1B records WASHINGTON -- The U.S. has changed its H-1B record retention policy to the concern of people who study the visa's impact on the workforce and economy.In a notice posted last week, the U.S. Department of Labor said that records used for labor certification, whether in paper or electronic, "are temporary records and subject to destruction" after five years, under a new policy.There was no explanation for the change, and it is perplexing to researchers. The records under threat are called Labor Condition Applications (LCA), which identify the H-1B employer, worksite, the prevailing wage, and the wage paid to the worker.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD H-1B whistleblower files new federal lawsuit +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Lowe's ranked the best, Home Depot the worst in SECTF contest The results are out from the fifth annual Social-Engineer Capture the Flag (SECTF) contest, which was held during Def Con 22. This year, social engineers worked in tag teams to trick companies into giving up "flags," or key pieces of information that could be used to penetrate the target company. Unlike bad guys in real life, the contestants did not victimize any companies.The SECTF report (pdf) includes the results of how well the target companies did; higher scores do not mean the company did better as it indicates the targets gave up more flags. Lowe's ranked the best and Home Depot ranked the worst. 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