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Exclusive: Obama set to announce executive order on cybersecurity threat data

February 12, 2015 publisher agenda-as-much, conference, congress, game-developer, government, handily-beat, mobile, president, victoria-bryan, white, white-house

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is expected to announce an executive order directing the government and companies to share more information about cybersecurity threats in response to attacks like that on Sony Entertainment. As in other policy areas where Obama has been unable to get legislation through the now Republican-controlled Congress, the White House is turning to more limited administrative actions to advance its agenda as much as it can. The announcement could be tonight or tomorrow, when the U.S.

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Turkish court orders Facebook to block pages insulting Mohammad: media

January 26, 2015 admin facebook, festival, government, mobile-devices, picture, president, silicon-valley, Technology

A Turkish court has ordered Facebook to block a number of pages deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad, threatening to stop access to the whole social networking site if it does not comply, state broadcaster TRT reported.

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Stop threats to Canada’s online pirates, rights holders told

January 10, 2015 publisher companies-must, demand-money, download-movies, government, holders-within, industry, internet, media, practice, providers, said-on-friday, the-government, the-practice

TORONTO (Reuters) – Media companies must back off from threatening Canadians who illegally download movies, music and books with penalties that do not exist in Canadian law, the government said on Friday.

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Google’s Gmail blocked in China

December 29, 2014 admin addresses-were, after-months, china-based, china-on-friday, down-on-monday, government, market-overseas, picture, zenica

By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – Google Inc's Gmail was blocked in China after months of disruptions to the world's biggest email service, with an anti-censorship advocate suggesting the Great Firewall was to blame. Large numbers of Gmail Web addresses were cut off in China on Friday, said GreatFire.org, a China-based freedom of speech advocacy group. Users said the service was still down on Monday

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AdvisorHUB site tried to sell broker data to major wirehouses

December 29, 2014 publisher addresses-were, china-based, daily-reading, down-on-monday, elizabeth, government, lacked-the-word, market-overseas, million-unique, picture, the-brokerage, york, zenica

By Elizabeth Dilts NEW YORK (Reuters) – (This is a correction to Dec. 19 story, which originally lacked the word ‘temporarily’ in 11th paragraph.) AdvisorHUB, a year-old gossip and news website for the brokerage industry, has become such a part of brokers’ daily reading routine that some call it the “New York Post of financial news.” The website’s founder, Andrew Parish, says the site has 200,000 registered users and gets half a million unique hits a month. …

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Obama mocks absurd plot twist of cyber attack on Sony

December 20, 2014 creative cyber-attack, daily-reading, did-not, elizabeth, faced, government, million-unique, most-destructive, obama, picture, president-barack, the-brokerage, zenica

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Faced with the most destructive cyber attack of a company on U.S. soil, President Barack Obama resorted to humor to explain an absurd plot that even Hollywood did not see coming.

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Risk modelers look to clarify cyber risk costs

December 19, 2014 publisher buy-insurance, calculate-how, cyber-attack, did-not, elizabeth, faced, file-picture, government, million-unique, obama, picture, president-barack, the-brokerage, warsaw

By Luciana Lopez NEW YORK (Reuters) – Even as the Sony Corp cyber attack laid bare the kinds of vulnerabilities that typically drive companies to buy insurance policies, the lack of a risk model for insurers means such protection is not always easy to get.

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Facebook says government requests for user data rises 24 percent

November 4, 2014 creative data-protection, expects-revenue, government, julia-fioretti, meetings, over-the-second, said-requests, series, zenica

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said requests by governments for user information rose by about a quarter in the first half of 2014 over the second half of last year.