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Australian web provider iiNet in possible database hacking

June 9, 2015 admin australia, australian, been-attempting, included-client, matthew-toohey, password, password-change, passwords, potential, the-potential, unnamed-hacker

By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Internet provider iiNet Ltd has urged more than 30,000 customers to change their passwords after claims emerged online that hackers had been attempting to sell personal information stolen from one of the firm’s databases. News of the potential data breach at Australia’s third-largest web provider first emerged on Twitter, where it was alleged an unnamed hacker was offering to sell a database that included client passwords, home addresses and telephone numbers. As a precaution, however, iiNet CIO Matthew Toohey said the company had contacted almost 31,000 customers and asked for the password change to prevent unauthorized access to accounts.

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Zambian police arrest musician for mocking president

June 8, 2015 admin 24th, charity, crime, government, london-based, lyrics, president-edgar, probably-gold, simon-jessop, sued-the-school, thomson-reuters

A popular Zambian singer was arrested on Monday after being accused by supporters of President Edgar Lungu of mocking the leader in a song that police said could provoke public clashes. Singing in a local language, musician Fumba Chama, also known as Pilato, mocks a man named Lungu who the lyrics say has no ideas but carries a suitcase full of bottles of whisky.

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Disney character performers in Florida object to media restrictions

June 5, 2015 admin board-on-friday, characters, checks-dating, disney-world, divulge-which, lynne-dalton, national-labor, officials-said, performers, push-requiring

By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – A union for Walt Disney World Resort character performers said it filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board on Friday objecting to a push requiring them not to divulge which characters they portray in any media, including social media

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Foreign entity or government believed behind U.S. data breach: law enforcement official

June 4, 2015 admin began-on-june, confirm, editing, exams, foreign-entity, government, high-school, massive-cyber, million-current, peter-cooney, sandra-maler, students-rioted

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A foreign entity or government is believed to be behind a massive cyber breach that compromised the data of about 4 million current and former U.S. government employees, a law enforcement official said on Thursday.

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June 4, 2015 admin

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Yahoo to live-stream October 25 NFL game

June 3, 2015 admin 30-day-mourning, charge-on-yahoo, digital-economy, football-game, jacksonville, nfl, officer-sheryl, seattle, speaks-during, stadium, stadium-during, super, super-bowl, yahoo-sports

Yahoo Inc will broadcast the Oct. 25 National Football League game between the Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars in London in the first live-stream of an NFL game. The International Series game will be streamed exclusively free of charge on Yahoo sites including Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Screen and Tumblr, Yahoo and the NFL said on Wednesday.

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China’s ‘Internet police’ open a window on Web censorship

June 1, 2015 admin beijing, campaign, facebook, homework, internet, known-as-finra, northwestern, passengers, public, shows-icons, street, subject, weibo, well-as-google

The branch of China's police in charge of censoring “illegal and harmful” online information will make its efforts more visible to the public from Monday with the launch of their own social media accounts, the Ministry of Public Security said. The Chinese government aggressively censors the Internet, blocking many sites it deems could challenge the rule of the Communist Party or threaten stability, including popular Western sites like YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, as well as Google Inc's main search engine and Gmail service

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Obama says ‘handful of senators’ blocking surveillance reforms

May 30, 2015 admin arlington, certain-period, leader-mitch, memorial, prevent-attacks, reform-the-bulk, representatives, senate-majority, senators

By Patricia Zengerle and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama warned on Friday that surveillance powers used to prevent attacks on Americans could lapse at midnight on Sunday unless “a handful of senators” stop standing in the way of reform legislation.

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Silk Road website creator gets life in prison for drug plot

May 29, 2015 admin 200-million, arlington, commit-drug, digital, district-judge, federal-jury, house, manhattan, reform-the-bulk, representatives, roberta-rampton, three-months, york

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused mastermind behind the underground website Silk Road was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using the digital currency bitcoin.

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Creator of Silk Road website faces sentencing for drug scheme

May 29, 2015 admin digital, enabled-more, photo-shows, roberta-rampton, said-on-friday, three-months, underground, virtual-reality, york

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused mastermind behind the underground website Silk Road will be sentenced on Friday for orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using the digital currency bitcoin.