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Moroccan government sues authors of report accusing it of spying: state news agency

May 9, 2015 creative 40-page-report, action, action-follows, are-regularly, condemn-curbs, intelligence, lawsuit, map, morocco, publication, rights-groups, state, state-or-king

By Aziz El Yaakoubi RABAT (Reuters) – The Moroccan Interior Ministry has filed a lawsuit against a group behind a report that allegedly accuses the intelligence services of spying on rights activists and journalists, according to the state news agency MAP. International rights groups condemn curbs on freedom of speech and information in Morocco, where journalists and activists are regularly prosecuted under laws that criminalize defamation of the state or king. MAP did not identify the group in question, nor did it give details of the lawsuit, but the action follows the publication last week of a 40-page report on government surveillance in Morocco, compiled by the UK-based Privacy International.

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Former U.S. government employee attempted to steal nuclear weapons secrets: Justice Department

May 9, 2015 publisher action-follows, condemn-curbs, department, energy, federal, former-employee, from-the-nrc, investigation, lawsuit, morocco, rights-groups, state

The U.S. Justice Department has charged a former employee of the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for allegedly attempting an email attack on government employees to extract sensitive information on nuclear weapons.

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Penn State president says campus fraternity system may need ‘re-evaluation’

March 19, 2015 publisher agency-settled, antitrust-rules, images, internet, police, president, school, shares-on-local, state, state-college

(Reuters) – Penn State University’s president says a re-evaluation of the school’s fraternity system may be needed after a fraternity was suspended for posting online photographs of nude women, some of them apparently unconscious. In a statement on Penn State’s website, President Eric Barron said he was “shocked and angered by the apparent disregard for not only the law, but also human dignity.” Barron called the images showing the women naked or partially clothed “highly inappropriate and disturbing.” The Kappa Delta Rho fraternity was suspended as of March 3, accused of hosting private Facebook pages and posting pictures that members took of mostly undressed women who were passed out or sleeping. “This evidence, which is still being gathered by the State College Police, is appalling, offensive and inconsistent with our community’s values

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NSA, British spies hack Gemalto to tap mobile calls: Intercept

February 19, 2015 admin 450-wireless, agencies, cazeneuve, digital, government, headquarters, intercept, mobile-phones, national, report, state, ukraine, white-house, world

(Reuters) – Digital security company Gemalto NV was hacked by American and British spies to steal encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications, news website Intercept reported, citing documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The hack by the National Security Agency (NSA) and UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) allowed the agencies to monitor a large portion of voice and data mobile communications around the world without permission from governments and telecom companies, according to the report. NSA could not be immediately reached for comment

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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

(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

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Lenovo to stop pre-installing controversial software

February 19, 2015 creative dobuzinskis, government, lenovo, lenovo-group, mobile-phones, practice, report, state, superfish, thursday, ukraine, web-connections, world

By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's largest PC maker, said on Thursday it will no longer pre-install software that cybersecurity experts said was malicious and made devices vulnerable to hacking. Lenovo had come under fire from security researchers who said earlier on Thursday the company pre-installed a virus-like software from a company called Superfish on consumer laptops that hijacked web connections and allowed them to be spied upon.

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Alibaba meets with China regulator, controversial report retracted

January 31, 2015 publisher china, chinese, executive, gestures-during, mountain-resort, official, regulator, session, sold-on-alibaba, state, swiss

(Reuters) – The head of China's commerce regulator met with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd chairman Jack Ma on Friday to discuss combating fake products, the official Xinhua news agency reported, with the two adopting a conciliatory tone after a row over illegal business on the Internet company's platforms. The meeting took place the same day the regulator, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), backtracked on an earlier report that had excoriated the Chinese online commerce company for not doing enough to suppress counterfeiting on its websites.

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Factbox: Canada security bill’s main provisions

January 30, 2015 publisher australia, china, chinese, france, friday, gestures-during, islamist, militants-since, mountain-resort, official, security, sold-on-alibaba, state, swiss, the-security

The Canadian government introduced legislation on Friday to counter terrorism in response to attacks in Canada, France and Australia by Islamist militants since last October. The following are the main provisions: CANADIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE – CSIS would have powers to disrupt threats to the security of Canada at home and abroad, not just collect intelligence. PROMOTION OF TERRORISM – It would make it a crime to call for attacks on Canada in general.