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Cyber security measure blocked in Senate

June 11, 2015 publisher against-cyber, binary-code, cyber-security, defense-policy, district, friday-some, internet, national, party-lines, warsaw

The Senate failed on Thursday to advance legislation to strengthen protections against cyber attacks, as Democrats banded together to oppose the measure's inclusion in a defense policy bill President Barack Obama has threatened to veto. By a 56-40 vote, lawmakers decided largely along party lines not to move ahead with the measure as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. It was the third time in three years that the Senate has failed to advance bipartisan cyber security legislation.

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Judge casts doubt on Twitter lawsuit over surveillance

June 11, 2015 publisher binary-code, california, cyber-security, defense-policy, district-judge, francisco, gonzalez-rogers, internet, national, shown-at-its, twitter, usa, warsaw

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc's lawsuit against the U.S.

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Facebook shareholders shoot down ‘one share, one vote’ proposal

June 11, 2015 publisher class, common-shares, european-engineering, gaming, investors-own, jpg, news, said-on-friday, single-space, zurich

(Reuters) – A proposal to give Facebook Inc's stockholders one vote per share was rejected at the company's annual meeting, according to preliminary results. The stockholder proposal was filed to change Facebook's voting practices. Ordinary investors own Class A common shares, which provide one vote per share, but Facebook's Class B shares are worth 10 votes each.

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Swiss investigating Iran nuclear talks spying search house, seize computer

June 11, 2015 publisher city, common-shares, dataminr, few-months, geneva, investors-own, its-chief, kaspersky, lauren-tara, possible-cyber, took-place, york, zurich

Swiss authorities have searched a house in Geneva and seized computer material in connection with a possible cyber attack on nuclear negotiations between Iran and major powers in the city, Switzerland’s attorney-general said on Thursday. A computer virus was used to hack into locations including three luxury hotels that have hosted negotiations between Iran and six world powers, the Russian computer security company Kaspersky Lab said on Wednesday

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U.S. senators say OPM data breach appears state-sponsored

June 10, 2015 publisher attack-appeared, computer-virus, data, negotiations, obama, people, personnel, senator, senator-angus, software-called, virus

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Members of the U.S.

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India’s Modi draws flak for ‘despite being a woman’ comment about Bangladeshi PM

June 8, 2015 publisher australia, australian, bangladeshi, famous-female, included-client, passwords, potential, sheikh, sheikh-hasina, south-asian, the-potential, thomson-reuters

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sparked outrage after he praised his Bangladeshi counterpart for her courage to fight terrorism “despite being a woman”, triggering an avalanche of criticism on social media site Twitter. #DespiteBeingAWoman was one of the top trends on the micro blogging site on Monday, with users expressing anger at what they said was a bigoted and sexist remark and posting pictures of famous female scientists, politicians and athletes. Modi, who was on a two-day official visit to neighboring Bangladesh, on Sunday told an audience at Dhaka University that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina showed that she was committed to ending terrorism which has plagued both South Asian nations

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Pledge sues Penn State, fraternity caught in nude photo scandal

June 8, 2015 publisher australia, being-burned, court-documents, group-featuring, monday-james, passwords, sheikh, south-asian, sued-the-school, the-potential, thomson-reuters, while-pledging

(Reuters) – The whistleblower in a Penn State University fraternity scandal tied to a private Facebook group featuring photographs of nude and apparently unconscious female students has sued the school and fraternity, according to court documents released on Monday. James Vivenzio says he was subjected to life-threatening hazing, which included being burned by cigarettes and forced to drink bucketfuls of alcohol mixed with vomit and urine while pledging for Kappa Delta Rho, according to the complaint filed in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia

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Students riot after Congo cancels leaked baccalaureate exams

June 6, 2015 publisher began-on-june, biggest-cities, congo-republic, country, exams, government, high-school, mark-the-end, questions, students-rioted

Thousands of Congo Republic high school students rioted on Friday in three of the country’s biggest cities following a decision by the government to cancel baccalaureate exams after the questions were leaked online. Education Minister Hellot Matson Mampouya said questions for the exams, which began on June 2 and mark the end of high school education, had been leaked and were being shared on social media.

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Chinese Embassy says accusations over U.S. data breach ‘not responsible’

June 5, 2015 publisher across-borders, chinese, chinese-embassy, cyber-threat, embassy, linked-the-opm, officials-said, premera-blue, usa

The Chinese Embassy in Washington, responding to reports that China was behind a massive cyberattack on U.S. government computers, said on Thursday that jumping to conclusions was “not responsible, and counterproductive.” Embassy spokesman Zhu Haiquan said China had made great efforts to combat cyberattacks and that tracking such events conducted across borders was difficult. “Jumping to conclusions and making hypothetical accusation is not responsible, and counterproductive,” Zhu said in emailed comments to Reuters.

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Facebook rolls out new Android app for emerging markets

June 4, 2015 publisher africa, app-suite, facebook, facebook-lite, limit-data, media-service, menlo-park, press-event, product-manager

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc rolled out a new Android app for its social media service on Thursday that uses less data and runs faster in regions with spotty connections.