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Trump Tower website has outage after Anonymous’ anti-Trump rant

December 11, 2015May 15, 2017 creative angela-moon, anonymous, cities-the-tech, hour-on-friday, people-affected, social, the-companies, usa

By Angela Moon and Eleanor Whalley NEW YORK (Reuters) – The website for Trump Towers, Donald Trump's glitzy signature skyscraper in Manhattan, went offline for at least an hour on Friday after activist hacking group Anonymous denounced the real-estate mogul and Republican presidential front-runner for his anti-Muslim comments. The website for the 68-story Trump Towers (trumptowerny.com), often used for his presidential campaign, was down after a tweet from an account associated with the anonymous hacking collective that said: “Trump Towers NY site taken down as statement against racism and hatred.www.trumptowerny.com/(what you see is cloudflare offline backup)” Earlier this week, a handle claiming to be “Anonymous Operations” posted a video on YouTube with the message: “The more the United States appears to be targeting Muslims, not just radical Muslims, you can be sure that ISIS will be putting that on their social media campaign.” The post added, “Donald Trump think twice before you speak anything.

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EU can suspend new data transfer pact with U.S. if worried about privacy: Official

December 10, 2015 creative data-transfer, edward-snowden, european-union, facebook, julia-fioretti, leaked-details, security, united, usa

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A new data transfer pact between the European Union and Washington will give the EU the right to pull the plug on the deal if it fears the United States is not safeguarding privacy enough, the EU Justice Commissioner said on Thursday. A previous transatlantic data transfer framework, Safe Harbour, was struck down on Oct. 6 by the European Union's top court because of worries about mass U.S.

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Snapchat’s daily video views triple to 6 billion: report

November 8, 2015 admin billion-figure, closes-the-gap, country, julia-fioretti, logo, page-on-monday, report, snapchat, usa

The number of videos viewed each day on Snapchat has tripled since May to 6 billion as the messaging app closes the gap with social media giant Facebook Inc, according to a report in the Financial Times that cites people close to the company. The Financial Times said that Snapchat confirmed the 6 billion figure but had declined to comment further.

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Toyota plans U.S. artificial intelligence research with focus on self-driving cars

November 6, 2015 admin 24-hour-car, automated-drive, closes-the-gap, country, its-cautious, next-five, page-on-monday, report, silicon, usa

Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday it will set up a research and development company with a focus on artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley, as competition to develop self-driving cars intensifies.

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India’s Modi set to woo tech companies in Silicon Valley

September 26, 2015September 29, 2015 publisher apple, commission, felony-charge, florida, india, mayor-michael, prime-minister, silicon-valley, stephanie-moore, united, united-states, usa, wildlife

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has documented his push to bring U.S. investments and jobs back to India on his Facebook and Twitter pages since landing in the United States this week, posting photos with the likes of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and group shots with Fortune 500 CEOs.

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U.S. considering sanctions over Chinese cyber theft: Washington Post

August 31, 2015 admin career-market, data-breaches, match-com, media-on-monday, octogenarian, other-sites, showing-binary, united, usa, years-ago

The White House is considering applying sanctions against companies and individuals in China it believes have benefited from Chinese hacking of U.S. trade secrets, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The newspaper, citing several unidentified Obama administration officials, said a final determination on whether to issue the sanctions was expected soon, possibly as early as the next two weeks.

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Video gamers win millions of dollars in Seattle championship

August 9, 2015 publisher geniuses, grand-finals, over-the-past, past, seattle, tech, usa, virtual-punches

By Curtis Skinner SEATTLE (Reuters) – Teams of video gamers playing characters ranging from wizards to monsters exchanged virtual punches, fireballs and lightning strikes over the past six days, battling at the main event of the Dota 2 International 2015 tournament in Seattle. Now in its fifth year and playing to a sold-out crowd in the 17,000-seat Key Arena, the International has grown every year in size, popularity and possible winnings for players. Video games have long been a moneymaker for the tech sector, forecast to generate some $111 billion in revenue this year by consultants Gartner Inc.

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As Amazon, eBay remove Confederate flags, Nazi items on sale

June 25, 2015 creative amazon, analysts-said, ask-questions, bans-the-sale, difficulty, late-afternoon, over-the-media, peace, press, prime-minister, trafficking, united-states, usa

By Mari Saito SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc sharply cut the number of Confederate flag products on their sites a day after vowing to remove them, but in a sign of the difficulty of removing controversial content, Nazi-era memorabilia are listed on both sites. EBay specifically bans their sale while Amazon bans the sale of “products that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views.” It is difficult to enforce a complete ban on controversial products, analysts said, because of technological hurdles in flagging and pulling down banned items. Amazon, which on Tuesday had listed nearly 30,000 items in a search for “Confederate flag”, had almost nothing for sale with the flag late afternoon Wednesday

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Hunt for Deep Panda intensifies in trenches of U.S.-China cyberwar

June 21, 2015 publisher arabia, chinese, friday, jared-myers, million-current, saudi, saudi-arabia, urged-its, usa, were-under

By Jeremy Wagstaff SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Security researchers have many names for the hacking group that is one of the suspects for the cyberattack on the U.S.

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U.S. employee data breach tied to Chinese intelligence

June 19, 2015 creative building, chinese, chinese-people, hacking, lunch, san, their-building, typically-goes, usa

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Chinese hacking group suspected of stealing sensitive information about millions of current and former U.S. government employees has a different mission and organizational structure than the military hackers who have been accused of other U.S. data breaches, according to people familiar with the matter

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