Mozilla says hackers stole information from Bugzilla

(Reuters) – Mozilla, creator of the popular Firefox web browser, said hackers had stolen security-sensitive information from Bugzilla, its bug tracker, and used it to “attack” Firefox users. The account that the hackers broke into was shut down shortly after the company discovered it had been compromised, the company said in a blog post. (http://mzl.la/1N7L9fC) (Reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)

Read more

Exclusive: U.S. weighs sanctioning Russia as well as China in cyber attacks

By Arshad Mohammed, Matt Spetalnick and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is considering sanctions against both Russian and Chinese individuals and companies for cyber attacks against U.S.

Read more

Ashley Madison owner says website still adding users after data hack

Hundreds of thousands of people signed up for infidelity website Ashley Madison in the last week, parent company Avid Life Media said on Monday, even after hackers leaked data about millions of its clients. “Recent media reports predicting the imminent demise of Ashley Madison are greatly exaggerated,” the company said in a statement

Read more

Out of the shadows, China hackers turn cyber gatekeepers

By Paul Carsten and Gerry Shih BEIJING (Reuters) – China, long accused by the United States of rampant cyber aggression, may be synonymous with hacking exploits these days, but that doesn't mean every Chinese hacker is out to pilfer and destroy. As Chinese companies grapple with a sharp increase in the number of cyber attacks, many hackers are finding it increasingly lucrative to go above board and join the country's nascent cyber security industry

Read more

U.S. intelligence chief: China top suspect in hack of U.S. agency: WSJ

The United States' intelligence chief said on Thursday that China was the top suspect in a hack of a U.S. agency that compromised the personnel records of millions of Americans, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The comments from Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper marked a departure of sorts for the Obama administration, which has avoided publicly pointing to Beijing, even as officials said privately China likely was behind the attack

Read more

Flightradar24 finds not just planespotters flocking to its website

By Victoria Bryan and Peter Maushagen BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Within 40 minutes of Germanwings flight 4U9525 crashing in the Alps in March French accident investigators from the BEA authority were on the phone to plane tracking website Flightradar24. “BEA called us and we of course passed the information over to them right away,” the website operator's chief executive Fredrik Lindahl said

Read more

Amazon revenue beats, cloud computing more profitable than expected

The e-commerce company for the first time broke out financial details of its secretive cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services, on Thursday, saying revenue jumped almost 50 percent to $1.57 billion, or about 7 percent of total revenue. The unit's operating income grew 8 percent to $265 million.

Read more