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Accused Irish LulzSec hacker worked in security
Thu,8 Mar 2012 08:58 PM PST
Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of the people accused by authorities of being at the core of Lulz Security, perhaps the most feared hacking group on the planet, led a nonprofit group in Galway, Ireland, dedicated to making websites more secure. Darren Martyn, who was named in an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, was a local chapter leader of the Open Web Application Security Project, which develops open-source applications to improve security, according to an official at the international group. ... Full Story | Top |
Hitachi to book $2.4 billion profit on hard drive unit sale
Thu,8 Mar 2012 08:54 PM PST
Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Hitachi Ltd, which is overhauling its sprawling business to improve profitability, said it would book a 191 billion yen ($2.4 billion) special profit on the sale of its U.S. hard disk drive business to Western Digital Corp. The industrial electronics conglomerate, grouping some 900 firms making everything from household appliances to power plants, has been shedding money-losing businesses and shifting its focus to areas such as infrastructure that are expected to generate stable profits. ... Full Story | Top |
Hacker "Sabu" worked full nights online for FBI
Thu,8 Mar 2012 08:50 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - One late-night visit by the FBI was all it took for the notorious hacker known as "Sabu" to switch sides and become a valued snitch. Hector Xavier Monsegur cooperated immediately in June, helping investigators close a net around five other leaders of the international hacking group Anonymous, according to court documents made public on Thursday. Monsegur sometimes stayed up all night, talking with co-conspirators to help the government build its case, Assistant U.S. ...
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Accused Irish LulzSec hacker worked in security
Thu,8 Mar 2012 08:43 PM PST
Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of the people accused by U.S. authorities of being at the core of Lulz Security, perhaps the most feared hacking group on the planet, led a nonprofit group in Galway, Ireland, dedicated to making websites more secure. Darren Martyn, who was named in an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, was a local chapter leader of the Open Web Application Security Project, which develops open-source applications to improve security, according to an official at the international group. ... Full Story | Top |
Why online security is taxing our brains
Thu,8 Mar 2012 08:28 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nathan Acosta is feeling a little overwhelmed. The 24-year-old from Raleigh, North Carolina, who works for a financial services firm, is trying his best to keep up with all the passwords and security questions he has to juggle, just to log onto his personal accounts. But sometimes it feels like a losing battle. It's a battle millions of consumers can identify with. For a while it was just your mother's maiden name, then your first pet, the street you grew up on or the make and model of your first car. ...
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Factbox: Hunted Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony
Thu,8 Mar 2012 07:45 PM PST
Reuters - KAMPALA (Reuters) - A video about Uganda's reclusive rebel leader Joseph Kony and the atrocities his Lord's Resistance Army has committed over more than 20 years has become a top trend on the social media site Twitter. Here are some facts about Kony and his rebel group, which is being hunted in the dense forests of central Africa by Ugandan and U.S. troops. * Self-proclaimed mystic Joseph Kony was indicted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for crimes against humanity in 2005. * In May 2006, the top U.S. diplomat in Africa said the administration of then-President George W. ... Full Story | Top |
Campaign against Ugandan warlord sweeps Internet
Thu,8 Mar 2012 07:39 PM PST
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A video calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's Resistance Army militia group in Uganda, swept across the Internet this week, attracting a wave of support on Twitter and Facebook along with a skeptical backlash against a little-known team of filmmakers based in San Diego. The 30-minute YouTube video was the centerpiece of a campaign that spread on Twitter beginning on Tuesday via hashtags such as #Kony2012 and #stopkony. By Thursday, the YouTube video had been viewed almost 40 million times, while Tweets about Kony had become the No. ...
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Konami joins Zynga's new games service
Thu,8 Mar 2012 07:38 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Japan's Konami Corp and two other game makers have joined Zynga's new gaming network, potentially drawing players to the fledgling service that Zynga hopes will reduce its dependence on Facebook. Konami is the first publicly traded games company to join the service, which was announced last week, in a sign that Zynga is gaining momentum finding publishing partners willing to share revenue with it. The service has now signed on six publishers. The website, Zynga.com, became open to the public on Monday, allowing users to make personal profiles and play games. ... Full Story | Top |
Exclusive: Google leans on developers to use payment service
Thu,8 Mar 2012 05:10 PM PST
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has been pressuring applications and mobile game developers to use its costlier in-house payment service, Google Wallet, as the Internet search giant tries to emulate the financial success of Apple Inc's iOS platform. Google warned several developers in recent months that if they continued to use other payment methods - such as PayPal, Zong and Boku - their apps would be removed from Android Market, now known as Google Play, according to developers, executives and investors in mobile gaming and payment sectors. ...
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Exclusive: Google leans on developers to use payment service
Thu,8 Mar 2012 03:48 PM PST
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has been pressuring applications and mobile game developers to use its costlier in-house payment service, Google Wallet, as the Internet search giant tries to emulate the financial success of Apple Inc's iOS platform. Google warned several developers in recent months that if they continued to use other payment methods - such as PayPal, Zong and Boku - their apps would be removed from Android Market, now known as Google Play, according to developers, executives and investors in mobile gaming and payment sectors. ...
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Proview Shenzhen asks China distributors to halt iPad sales
Thu,8 Mar 2012 03:41 PM PST
Reuters -  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Proview Technology, which is battling Apple over the iPad trademark in China, has asked Chinese distributors to stop selling the popular tablet PC after the U.S. technology giant launched the latest version of its iPad. The move is the latest twist in a long-running lawsuit between the world's most valuable technology company and the Chinese firm, a unit of near-bankrupt Proview International Holdings Ltd, but was expected to have little impact on the case. ...
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Facebook alumni flex muscles, dabble in politics
Thu,8 Mar 2012 03:32 PM PST
Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook's original friends are moving into politics. Small investments in NationBuilder, a political campaign software startup, by a tight-knit group of Facebook alumni suggest how they might spread their wealth around Silicon Valley in coming months, especially after the world's largest Internet social network goes public. NationBuilder said Thursday it has raised $6.25 million in an investment round led by Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm founded by high-tech entrepreneurs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. ... Full Story | Top |
Italian "supercar" designers turn the page
Thu,8 Mar 2012 02:58 PM PST
Reuters -  GENEVA (Reuters) - Pininfarina and Bertone put new "supercar" concepts on display at the Geneva Auto Show, demonstrating that the two design houses are putting their financial troubles behind them, executives said. Both family-held bodymakers have been forced to sell their manufacturing plants and focus on becoming "pure" design firms, penning dream cars for mainly Asian clients on commission. ...
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Apple barred from pursuing Kodak patent claims now
Thu,8 Mar 2012 02:06 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc, the biggest U.S. company by market value, was told it cannot now pursue ongoing patent infringement litigation against bankrupt photography giant Eastman Kodak Co. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper, who oversees Kodak's Chapter 11 case, said at a Thursday hearing it would be an "inappropriate way forward" to allow Apple to continue pursuing claims against Kodak while the company is in bankruptcy. The infringement claims center on a Kodak patent that lets consumers preview digital photographs on LCD screens. ...
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Facebook adds women, minority-owned banks for IPO
Thu,8 Mar 2012 01:45 PM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Facebook Inc added several women- and minority-owned investment banks to the roster of underwriters for its initial public offering, following in the footsteps of General Motors Co and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, which did the same during their own offerings. The No. 1 online social media network, which filed an amended IPO registration statement with the U.S. ...
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