NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have charged nine people over their alleged roles in a hacking scheme to obtain corporate press releases before they were made public, which they said generated more than $30 million of illegal trading profit.
(Reuters) – Norton antivirus maker Symantec Corp said it would sell its data storage business, Veritas, for $8 billion in cash to a group including Carlyle Group LP and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC. Symantec’s shares rose about 7 percent in premarket trading on Tuesday. Symantec said it expected to receive about $6.3 billion in net cash proceeds from the deal, which is expected to close by Jan. 1.
Police raided the Hong Kong offices of taxi-hailing service Uber Inc on Tuesday and arrested five drivers for the “illegal use of vehicles for hire”, police said. A Hong Kong police senior inspector, Bruce Hung, said undercover police officers had used a mobile phone app to hail five cars, and after being driven to their destinations, arrested the drivers. Police also conducted a search of two offices in Hong Kong
Toshiba Corp plans to book more than 100 billion yen ($802 million) in impairment charges for the last fiscal year in addition to marking down past results following an accounting investigation, the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday. The impairment charges include a more conservative estimate of Toshiba’s Westinghouse nuclear business and reflect weakness in its semiconductor and appliances units, the Nikkei said, without citing sources. It said the financial
(Reuters) – The National Football League said it signed a multi-year partnership with microblogging site Twitter Inc to deliver video and other content to NFL fans on a daily basis. Content, including in-game highlights from pre-season through Super Bowl 50, will be distributed across Twitter from the start of the 2015 season, the NFL said in a press release. (http://bit.ly/1TkkSLl) The partnership expands on the NFL’s existing partnership with Twitter
The Stagefright bug – which allows Android devices to be compromised by nothing more than a video MMS message – seems to have jolted the major manufacturers into action as far as security updates and patches are concerned. Earlier this week Google and both Samsung promised to push out security patches on a monthly basis. That’s something you’d expect from Google, as Nexus devices already get first priority with Android
The Stagefright bug – which allows Android devices to be compromised by nothing more than a video MMS message – seems to have jolted the major manufacturers into action as far as security updates and patches are concerned. Earlier this week Google and both Samsung promised to push out security patches on a monthly basis. That’s something you’d expect from Google, as Nexus devices already get first priority with Android
The Stagefright bug – which allows Android devices to be compromised by nothing more than a video MMS message – seems to have jolted the major manufacturers into action as far as security updates and patches are concerned. Earlier this week Google and both Samsung promised to push out security patches on a monthly basis. That’s something you’d expect from Google, as Nexus devices already get first priority with Android
Another week, another major hacking attack – this time around it’s Carphone Warehouse that’s been hit, with information on up to 2.4 million customers potentially at risk and data for some 90,000 credit cards exposed too. Owner Dixons Carphone says the “vast majority” of customers are unaffected, but if you’ve done business with OneStopPhoneShop.com, e2save.com, Mobiles.co.uk, TalkTalk Mobile, Talk Mobile or Carphone Warehouse then you might be involved. “We are,
Another week, another major hacking attack – this time around it’s Carphone Warehouse that’s been hit, with information on up to 2.4 million customers potentially at risk and data for some 90,000 credit cards exposed too. Owner Dixons Carphone says the “vast majority” of customers are unaffected, but if you’ve done business with OneStopPhoneShop.com, e2save.com, Mobiles.co.uk, TalkTalk Mobile, Talk Mobile or Carphone Warehouse then you might be involved. “We are,
