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Ukraine puts cyber crime losses at $7.75m in Q1
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Cyber criminals had stolen at least 7.75 million U.S. dollars from Ukrainian companies and individuals in the first quarter of 2013, an official said Monday.
"Criminals began to break into a computer network to transfer funds from one account to another, from one country to another," Mikhail ...DETAILS |
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DirectTV mulls purchase of Hulu
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US satellite service DirectTV is considering an investment in digital entertainment site Hulu, a source close to the talks told The Wall Street Journal.
Hulu is owned by Walt Disney Co., News Corp. and Comcast Corp. -- which, due to a regulatory agreement, has investor-only status and does not ...DETAILS |
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Hackers target Saudi government websites
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A series of Saudi governmental websites, including that of the Interior Ministry, have been exposed to several coordinated and simultaneous cyber attacks over the past few days, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
A Saudi Interior Ministry’s source told SPA that the ministry’s ...DETAILS |
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British court hands down sentences for 4 British hackers
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Four British members of the hacking group Lulzsec, which carried out a series of high profile cyber-attacks in 2011, have been sentenced.
Ryan Cleary, Jake Davis, Mustafa al-Bassam and Ryan Ackroyd were part of the Lulzsec group that targeted Sony Pictures, games-maker Electronic Arts, News ...DETAILS |
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Facebook blocks Nakba group page
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A Facebook page promoting Nakba commemoration events in Jaffa was temporarily blocked overnight, Palestinian activists said Monday.
Fatima Huleiwi, an activist with Jaffa Youth, told Ma'an that it was not the first time that Facebook had blocked the group's user page.
"When we ...DETAILS |
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Disclosure delays help fuel online rumors
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Official delays in releasing information on issues people find important is one of the main reasons rumors spread on the Internet, an expert said.
"Nowadays, most government departments prefer to debunk fake news after it's been circulating than to disclose the truth upfront," said Cheng ...DETAILS |
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Singapore measures to restrict access to online gambling sites
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The Singapore government is studying measures to curb online gambling by restricting access to online gambling websites, a government minister said on Friday.
Spreaking at the Casino Regulatory Authority's annual workplan seminar on Friday, Minister at the Prime Minister's Office S Iswaran ...DETAILS |
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Hacker attacks hit Russian media outlets
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Several online news services in Russia said Thursday they came under a serious attack by Internet hackers.
The editorial staff at online newspaper Fontaka.ru told state news agency RIA Novosti from St. Petersburg that its website was the target of a distributed denial-of-service ...DETAILS |
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Facebook may spend $1bn to buy Waze social traffic app
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Facebook may be ready to spend $1 billion to acquire Waze, an Israeli company that offers a socially driven GPS app for drivers, tech-watching sites said.
Israeli business-news site Calcalist said talks between the two companies have been ongoing for six months and the two companies have ...DETAILS |
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US teen's Internet plugin foils Twitter plot-spoilers
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Fed up with Twitter friends ruining the plots of her favorite TV shows, high school senior and budding software engineer Jennie Lamere took matters into her own hands.
She's finalizing an Internet browser plugin called Twivo that uses keywords inserted by the user -- like a show's title or the ...DETAILS |
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