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Cyber security measure blocked in Senate

June 11, 2015 publisher against-cyber, binary-code, cyber-security, defense-policy, district, friday-some, internet, national, party-lines, warsaw

The Senate failed on Thursday to advance legislation to strengthen protections against cyber attacks, as Democrats banded together to oppose the measure's inclusion in a defense policy bill President Barack Obama has threatened to veto. By a 56-40 vote, lawmakers decided largely along party lines not to move ahead with the measure as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. It was the third time in three years that the Senate has failed to advance bipartisan cyber security legislation.

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Judge casts doubt on Twitter lawsuit over surveillance

June 11, 2015 publisher binary-code, california, cyber-security, defense-policy, district-judge, francisco, gonzalez-rogers, internet, national, shown-at-its, twitter, usa, warsaw

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc's lawsuit against the U.S.

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Oculus debuts consumer version of VR headset, partners with Xbox

June 11, 2015 creative california, francisco, gonzalez-rogers, internet, national, oculus, oculus-chief, oculus-rift, san, speaks-during, start-shipping, thursday, unveiling, warsaw

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Oculus, the virtual reality company owned by Facebook Inc, debuted the much anticipated consumer version of its headset on Thursday and announced a partnership with Microsoft Corp's Xbox One gaming console. A prototype of the Oculus Rift has been available to developers since 2013, but Thursday marked the first time anyone had seen the consumer version, which will be available for pre-order later this year and will start shipping in early 2016

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CIA to make sweeping changes, focus more on cyber ops: agency chief

March 6, 2015 creative 70-year-history, agency, biggest, cia, creating-new, cutting, director-said, focus-on-cyber, mission-centers, national, sharpening-its, the-cutting, units-within, virginia

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Central Intelligence Agency will make one of the biggest overhauls in its nearly 70-year history, aimed in part at sharpening its focus on cyber operations and incorporating digital innovations, CIA director John Brennan said. Brennan said he is creating new units within the CIA, called “mission centers,” intended to concentrate the agency's focus on specific challenges or geographic areas, such as weapons proliferation or Africa

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U.S. charges three in ring that stole one billion email addresses

March 6, 2015 creative 70-year-history, biggest, breaches, cia, creating-new, cutting, hacking, hacking-spree, internet, mission-centers, national, sharpening-its, the-cutting, victims

By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Jim Finkle WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) – Two Vietnamese citizens and a Canadian have been charged with running a massive cyberfraud ring that stole 1 billion email addresses, then sent spam offering knockoff software products, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday. The Justice Department described the hacking spree as “one of the largest” data breaches uncovered in U.S.

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Microsoft warns Windows PCs also vulnerable to ‘Freak’ attacks

March 6, 2015 creative 70-year-history, annual, apple, bellevue, breaches, creating-new, cutting, microsoft, mission-centers, mobile-devices, national, only-threaten, sharpening-its, start, windows

By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of Windows PC users are vulnerable to attacks exploiting the recently uncovered “Freak” security vulnerability, which was initially believed to only threaten mobile devices and Mac computers, Microsoft Corp warned. News of the vulnerability surfaced on Tuesday when a group of nine security experts disclosed that ubiquitous Internet encryption technology could make devices running Apple Inc's iOS and Mac operating systems, along with Google Inc's Android browser vulnerable to cyber attacks

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U.S. says inaction on online piracy risks public safety

March 5, 2015 publisher against-sellers, alibaba, alibaba-group, chairman, china, internet-names, national, national-taiwan, representative, selling-illegal

By Krista Hughes WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. trade office on Thursday urged a crackdown on website name registrars who fail to take action against sellers of illegal goods such as counterfeit medicines and warned that turning a blind eye puts public safety at risk. The U.S

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China draft counterterror law strikes fear in foreign tech firms

February 27, 2015 publisher chinese, congress, file-picture, increasingly, national, national-people, second-largest, weeks-or-months

By Michael Martina and Krista Hughes BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China is weighing a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys and install security “backdoors”, a potential escalation of what some firms view as the increasingly onerous terms of doing business in the world's second largest economy.

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Indian IT firms eye robotics, driverless cars for next round of growth

February 20, 2015 publisher apps, buyout-vehicle, changes-clients, consultancy, dampen-other, general-meeting, low-margin-work, national, new-fundraising, people-familiar, press-service, the-annual, the-dominance, their-devices, venue

By Nivedita Bhattacharjee MUMBAI (Reuters) – After decades of low-margin work like server maintenance, India's information technology services firms are moving upscale in search of lucrative contracts for driverless cars and other advanced projects as online innovation changes clients' needs. Companies from Tata Consultancy Services Ltd to Wipro Ltd are all joining Infosys Ltd in investing in new, high-end technology, industry watchers say. Earlier this week Infosys bought U.S.

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State Dept. has yet to clear its computer network of hackers: WSJ

February 20, 2015 publisher crisis, intruders, intruders-had, investigation, journal, national, people, people-familiar, street, street-journal, systems-offline, the-government, the-intruders, things, ukraine

Three months after the U.S. State Department confirmed hackers breached its unclassified email system, the government has still not been able to evict them from the network, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing three people familiar with the investigation. Government officials, assisted by outside contractors and the National Security Agency, have repeatedly scanned the network and taken some systems offline, the Journal reported.