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Revenge porn operator agrees to plea to criminal charges in Los Angeles

February 19, 2015 admin 450-wireless, bbc, dobuzinskis, hunter-moore, islamic-state, microsoft-corp, mobile-phones, post-the-full, posted-explicit, posting-online, practice, several-states, the-attention, their-consent, women-or-men

(Refiles story dated February 18, correcting first name of defendant to Hunter instead of Michael in second paragraph) By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A man who posted explicit photos of women on his so-called revenge porn website, some taken from hacked email accounts, has agreed to plead guilty in Los Angeles to hacking and identity theft charges, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The plea agreement between Hunter Moore, 28, and federal prosecutors comes nearly three years after BBC News called him “The net’s most hated man” and reported that he was known to post the full name and location of people whose naked photos he featured on his site. Revenge porn, which involves posting online photos of women or men without their consent, typically by jilted ex-lovers, has drawn the attention of lawmakers in several states who have approved legislation intended to stop the practice.

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Revenge porn operator agrees to plea to criminal charges in Los Angeles

February 19, 2015 admin bbc, dobuzinskis, government, national, practice, report, state, ukraine, women-or-men

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Europe’s airlines race for Wi-Fi in battle for passengers and new revenues

February 16, 2015 admin bluffdale, data-gathering, figured-out-how, incident-pitted, number, pakistan, revenue-through, sarah-young, such-as-seats, their-planes, victoria-bryan

By Victoria Bryan and Sarah Young BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s airlines are racing to add Wi-Fi to their planes, eager to attract Internet-hungry customers in a cut-throat short-haul market and potentially add millions of dollars of revenue through entertainment, services and advertising.

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BMW-backed car parking app raises half crowdfunding target on debut

February 13, 2015 admin alibaba, app-connects, computer-code, space-at-their, typical, typical-startup, venture-capital, virus, your-average

By Andrew Winterbottom LONDON (Reuters) – JustPark, a London-based start-up that launched the world's first in-car parking app, is nearly half way to achieving a 1 million pound ($1.5 million) equity fundraising target just 12 hours after its debut on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. JustPark's app connects car-park owners, often individuals with a private parking space at their home, to drivers looking for a place to park

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New games help King Digital revenue, profit beat estimates

February 12, 2015 admin average-had, digital, future-revenue, game-developer, gross-bookings, handily-beat, iphone-as-she, mobile, quarter-ended, revenue-through, seattle-based, third-quarter, victoria-bryan, woman-poses

(Reuters) – Mobile game maker King Digital Entertainment Plc's quarterly revenue and profit handily beat market estimates as newer games such as “Candy Crush Soda Saga” more than made up for declining popularity of older titles. King Digital, whose shares jumped 18 percent in extended trading on Thursday, also said it would buy Seattle-based game developer Z2Live Inc. Total gross bookings, an indicator of future revenue, increased 8 percent to $586 million in the fourth quarter ended Dec.

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#WhereIsTheBomb warns Egyptians of violence-related traffic

February 12, 2015 admin expedia, larger-rival, media, media-conference, million-users, mohamed-mursi, says-it-sends, slipped-behind, soldiers-since, travel-services, while-priceline, world

By Shadi Bushra CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's long-suffering drivers, worn down by decades of jams and crashes, are turning to social media to stave off a new, even more pressing threat — the traffic chaos caused by roadside bombs. “We really wish we didn't need to incorporate such a feature,” the app's co-creator Gamal ElDin Sadek told Reuters. “Eventually we categorized it under one hashtag to be better organized in warning people.” Egypt has been battling an Islamist militant insurgency that has killed hundreds of police and soldiers since then army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted president Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in July 2013 after mass protests.

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U.S. creates new agency to lead cyberthreat tracking

February 10, 2015 admin california, cyber, cyber-threat, employees-work, florida, from-various, more-spectrum, national, obama, president, senators-marco, the-information, the-wireless, wilson-center

By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Calling the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures “a game changer,” a top White House official on Tuesday announced a new intelligence unit to coordinate analysis of cyberthreats, modeled on similar U.S. government efforts to fight terrorism. Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, said the new agency will rapidly pool and disseminate data on cyberbreaches, which she said are ballooning in size and sophistication, to U.S

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TurboTax maker Intuit halts state tax filings over fraud concerns

February 6, 2015 admin been-vandalized, early-on-friday, halted-e-filing, intuit, jeremy, she-announced, states, the-situation

(Reuters) – Intuit Inc, the developer of tax-preparation software TurboTax, halted e-filing of state tax returns after it noticed attempts to use stolen identity information to file fraudulent returns and claim refunds. “We’ve identified specific patterns of behavior where fraud is more likely to occur,” Chief Executive Brad Smith said in a statement. “We’re working with the states to share that information and remedy the situation quickly.” Intuit said fraudulent activity was not due to a security breach of its systems and that the information used to file fraudulent returns was obtained from outside sources

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Google panel backs firm on EU limit to ‘right to be forgotten’

February 6, 2015 admin been-vandalized, common, developers, european-court, intuit, julia-fioretti, longer-relevant, moscone, moscone-center, remove-links, ruling-ordering, ruslan-belkin, she-announced, states, surprise

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A panel of experts appointed by Google to advise it on how to implement an EU ruling ordering it to remove links to some personal information from search results has backed the company's view that links be removed only from websites in Europe. Google set up its eight-member panel last year to draw up a report, published on Friday, on how to implement the surprise “right to be forgotten” ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in May

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Defense of Pentagon networks ‘not where it should be’: nominee

February 4, 2015 admin civilian, house, its-networks, military-needed, obama, our-military, own-computer, pentagon, president, senate, senate-armed, strongest-open, their-networks, told-the-senate

The U.S. military’s ability to defend its own computer networks is “not where it should be,” Ashton Carter, President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, said on Wednesday. Carter said the U.S.