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Latvian man charged by U.S. over Gozi computer virus pleads guilty

September 4, 2015 creative gozi, hungary, latvia, lead-at-uber, office, raffi-krikorian, tech-recruiters, the-computer, virus

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Latvian man pleaded guilty on Friday to engaging in a scheme to transmit a computer virus that infected more than a million computers worldwide and caused tens of millions of dollars in losses. Deniss Calovskis, 30, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to conspiring to commit computer intrusion, admitting that he had been hired to write some of the computer code that made the so-called Gozi virus so effective. The plea followed Calovskis' extradition in February from Latvia, where he was arrested in November 2012 and held for 10 months in jail.

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Restless nights? Smart devices may help ease you through the twilight hours

September 4, 2015 creative changi, changi-airport, gozi, latvia, lead-at-uber, man-takes, raffi-krikorian, virus

Samsung's Sleep Sense can be placed underneath the mattress at night where it can monitor heartbeat, breathing and movements.

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Mozilla says hackers stole information from Bugzilla

September 4, 2015 creative berlin, bugzilla, computer-screen, devika-krishna, down-shortly, editing, firefox, gozi, latvia, man-takes, popular, said-hackers, the-hackers, web-browser

(Reuters) – Mozilla, creator of the popular Firefox web browser, said hackers had stolen security-sensitive information from Bugzilla, its bug tracker, and used it to “attack” Firefox users. The account that the hackers broke into was shut down shortly after the company discovered it had been compromised, the company said in a blog post. (http://mzl.la/1N7L9fC) (Reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)

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Young and quirky YouTube stars lift traditional book publishers

September 2, 2015 creative collections, connor, connor-franta, divided-cities, franta, growing, invented, merged, million-books, the-costume, videos, young-readers

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Videos like “Walking Around Naked” and “Apps That Need to Be Invented” made Connor Franta a star on YouTube. With that kind of appeal to young readers, Franta is part of a generation of YouTube stars giving a boost to the book publishing industry

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Texas teen fatally shoots himself while taking selfie

September 2, 2015 creative 153-09-million, coroner, houston, julie-gordon, online-fashion, police-said, selfie-photo, shot-himself, social-media, the-completion, the-issues

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A 19-year-old Texas man who was posing with a gun for a social media selfie photo accidentally shot himself and died from the wounds, Houston police said on Wednesday. “A witness told police he was taking a selfie with a gun and the gun accidentally discharged,” Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said. The identity of the man killed in the Tuesday incident in Houston has been withheld pending an investigation by the coroner.

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Twitter announces global expansion of self-service ads platform

September 2, 2015 creative 153-09-million, 200-countries, francisco, houston, its-corporate, police-said, said-it-had, selfie-photo, shot-himself, the-issues

(Reuters) – Microblogging website operator Twitter Inc said it had expanded its self-service ads platform to more than 200 countries and territories from 33 countries. Small and medium-sized businesses can now reach their target audiences on Twitter in 15 languages, Twitter said in a blog post on Wednesday

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Ashley Madison owner says website still adding users after data hack

August 31, 2015 creative are-greatly, arshad-mohammed, ashley, ashley-madison, business, chinese, computer-screen, final-decision, imminent-demise, media, said-on-monday, showing-binary, united-states

Hundreds of thousands of people signed up for infidelity website Ashley Madison in the last week, parent company Avid Life Media said on Monday, even after hackers leaked data about millions of its clients. “Recent media reports predicting the imminent demise of Ashley Madison are greatly exaggerated,” the company said in a statement

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Man linked to JPMorgan hacking in talks to resolve U.S. case: filing

August 28, 2015 creative criminal, europe, federal-court, friday-since, julia-fioretti, morgan-chase, paris, reserved-lane, smartphone-over

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Florida man accused of running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange and who is among five defendants linked to last summer's massive data breach at JPMorgan Chase & Co is in talks to resolve his criminal case, according to court papers filed Friday. In a court filing in federal court in Manhattan, a prosecutor said Yuri Lebedev, one of two men charged with operating the bitcoin exchange service, was in discussions “regarding a possible disposition of this case.” The filing used language that is usually indicative of plea talks, though cases in some instances can be resolved with deferred prosecution agreements or with charges being dropped. Eun Young Choi, a prosecutor under Manhattan U.S

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Angry Birds maker’s float seen less likely despite mobile games growth

August 28, 2015 creative entertainment, games, liisa-tuhkanen, management-team, massive-cyber, mobile, paris, poster-during, president-holm, research-firm, said-on-friday

By Liisa Tuhkanen LONDON (Reuters) – The often touted but regularly delayed stock-market listing of Rovio, creator of the hugely popular “Angry Birds” mobile game, could be even more distant after this week's warning of lower earnings and a planned cull of more than a third of its staff. While the mobile games market as a whole is thriving and looks set to grow to more than $35 billion in 2017, according to research firm Newzoo, Rovio's woes typify the difficulty established players have in changing with the times

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Investors still in the dark as cyber threat grows

August 28, 2015 creative aptop-computer, broader-picture, code-on-man, global, global-mobile, internet-conference, leaked-details, malcolm-harkins, million-clients, said-on-friday, security-chief, simon-jessop, the-businesses

By Simon Jessop and Ross Kerber LONDON/BOSTON (Reuters) – Investors are being poorly served by a haphazard approach from fund managers to the growing threat of cyber crime damaging the companies in which they invest, with a lack of clarity from the businesses themselves compounding the problem.