Lawyers

• Legal Challenges In The Age Of Digital Revolution

  Almost every sector of society is feeling the headwinds of the digital revolution, and it definitely includes the challenges and changes the legal sphere is being faced with.

• FBI Paid $1.3 Million To Hack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone

  On Thursday, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey revealed the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and four months he has in his job.

• Porsche, more Audi models pulled into VW emissions scandal

  Volkswagen used devices to cheat air pollution tests in diesel luxury vehicles, U.S. environmental regulators said on Monday, in a new blow to the automaker already reeling from similar allegations regarding millions of smaller diesel engines.

• Volkswagen could face $18 billion penalties from EPA

  Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) faces penalties up to $18 billion after being accused of designing software for diesel cars that deceives regulators measuring toxic emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday.

• Google versus Oracle case exposes differences within Obama administration

  The Obama administration has been locked in internal wrangling over what position to take in high profile litigation between two American technology giants, Google and Oracle, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. It faces an end-of-May deadline to decide whether to take sides in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that will have wide implications for the technology industry.

• U.S. government urges Lenovo customers to remove Superfish software

  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Friday advised Lenovo Group Ltd customers to remove a software program known as "Superfish," which the agency said the world's No. 1 PC maker started installing on machines as early as 2010.

• Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

  The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives.