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U.S. and UK to test financial cyber-security later this month

November 2, 2015 admin attack-on-their, brussels, global-trends, its-regulators, london, minister-david, responses, said-on-monday, sarah-young, take-break, their-financial, their-responses, travel, united-states

The United States and Britain will test later this month how its regulators would respond if their financial sectors suffered a major cyber-attack or broader IT problems, a British official said on Monday. The test, for which no date has yet been set, will focus on how regulators for the world's two biggest financial centers in New York and London communicate in an emergency, a spokesman for British government cyber-security body CERT-UK said.

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Amazon to stop offering daily deals

October 30, 2015 admin amazon, amazon-local, deals-on-its, lehar-maan, make-purchases, man-looking, said-customers, vienna

(Reuters) – Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said it would stop selling daily deals on its Amazon Local website and app, starting Dec. 18. The e-commerce company said customers would be able to make purchases on the website between Oct

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Alphabet’s Google announces deal with Indonesian telecoms on Web access

October 29, 2015 admin beijing, bring-so-called, country, global, global-mobile, global-trends, indonesian, internet, internet-conference, project, the-public, their-responses

By Deborah M. Todd MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif

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South Africa’s Naspers to sell Czech online business for $201 mln

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South African media firm Naspers will sell its holdings in two Czech online businesses for $201 million after failing to merge it with a Romanian internet retailer, the company said on Monday. Naspers, which started as an Afrikaans language newspaper publisher a century ago, said the disposal of online retailer Netretail and price comparison platform Heureka was part of a plan to optimise its group structure. After different strategies prevented Naspers from merging Netretail with Romania’s eMag, both of which it bought in 2012, the company said it decided to focus on eMag as its preferred e-tail platform in the region.

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TalkTalk hires BAE Systems to investigate cyber attack

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By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) – British broadband provider TalkTalk said on Sunday it had hired defense company BAE Systems to investigate a cyber attack that may have led to the theft of personal data from its more than 4 million customers. TalkTalk said on Friday it had received a ransom demand from an unidentified party for the attack, which has led to calls for greater regulation of how companies and public bodies manage personal data. “BAE Systems are supporting us as we investigate this week's cyber attack,” a spokeswoman for TalkTalk said, declining to give further details due to the ongoing investigation

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Trick or Trump: The Donald, Pizza Rat among top Halloween costumes

October 25, 2015 admin caitlyn-jenner, carson, doorbell, dress, employee-kenny, popular-costume, sometimes-less, super-bowl, village-party

When a Donald Trump look-alike and a faux Caitlyn Jenner ring the doorbell on Halloween night, they may solicit a piece of candy but the treat they really seek is recognition. Pop culture experts say these “ripped from the headlines” costumes to celebrate the Oct.

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New deputy of Germany’s IG Metall says good work won her fans

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By Georgina Prodhan and Ilona Wissenbach FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Christiane Benner has to think long and hard about how she became the most powerful woman in German trade unionism. Benner, 47, was picked this week as deputy leader of IG Metall, Germany's biggest trade union, which represents 2.3 million engineering and metal workers at companies including Volkswagen and Siemens

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Venezuela sues black market currency website in United States

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By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Central Bank filed a lawsuit on Friday with allegations of “cyber-terrorism” against a U.S.-based website that tracks the OPEC member’s currency black market. The DolarToday site has enraged President Nicolas Maduro’s government by publishing a rate in Venezuelan bolivars for the greenback far higher than the three official levels under Venezuela’s 12-year-long currency controls. The lawsuit, in the U.S

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Twitter’s Dorsey says to give a third of his stock to employee equity pool

October 23, 2015 admin annual, chief-executive, dorsey, editing, employee, leslie-adler, media, people, rishika-sadam, the-annual, the-employee, twitter, valley

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said he is giving a third of his stock in the company, about 1 percent, to the employee equity pool. This move is to “reinvest directly in our people,” Dorsey, who was named as the company's permanent CEO earlier this month, said in a tweet on Thursday. Twitter could not be reached immediately for a comment outside regular business hours.

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Space age perils: hackers find a new battleground on the final frontier

October 22, 2015 admin bluffdale, brake-on-future, carson, final-frontier, hang-on-display, museum, nonprofit, nsa, popular-costume, security, space, super-bowl, udvar

By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Space, the 'final frontier', is rapidly becoming an extra-terrestrial battleground for corporate espionage and other types of cyber attack as hackers seek to gain commercial advantage from rival networks operating in the $330-billion space economy.