Facebook said on Friday that it been the target of a series of attacks by an unidentified hacker group, but it had found no evidence that user data was compromised. "Last month, Facebook security discovered that our systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack," the company said in a blog post. "The attack occurred
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Training and future employment of Cypriots in the natural gas industry was discussed between the Chairman of Cyprus’ Hydrocarbon State Company (KRETYK) Charalambos Ellinas and the Director of the Cyprus Productivity Centre (CPC) Dinos Kathijotis in a meeting on Friday, at the offices of KRETYK. According to a press release, issued here today, during the
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Cyprus’ government IT Department prevented on Sunday an attack of limited scale against its servers, while voting for the presidential elections was in progress. Officials are not in a position to verify that the attack came from “Anonymous” hacker group. On Sunday, a video was posted on the internet, claiming that the “Anonymous” would hit
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Britain's top shares edged lower on Monday, with the benchmark FTSE 100 index struggling to break through fresh five-year highs as investors temper long-term bullishness with short-term caution. The FTSE 100 was down by 0.2%, or 13.90 points lower, at 6,314.36 points by 0813 GMT, in what is expected to be a quiet session with
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Hong Kong shares fell as investors were disappointed by underperformance in Chinese onshore markets, which reopened on Monday after the Lunar New Year holiday. The Hang Seng Index closed down 0.3% at 23,381.94. The China Enterprises Index of the top Chinese listings in Hong Kong shed 0.9%. In the mainland, the CSI300 of the top
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President John F. Kennedy's Air Force One bomber jacket sold for $570,000 at an auction on Sunday of items that belonged to a longtime aide, nearly 50 years after the president's assassination. The jacket was among thousands of items, including letters, photographs and books, that had been tucked away in drawers and file cabinets at
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U.S. film and television writers gave their top two movie awards on Sunday to "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Argo" in the final Hollywood guild awards show before next week's Oscars. Writer Mark Boal won the Writers Guild of America award for Best Original Screenplay for "Zero Dark Thirty," which chronicles the intense U.S. manhunt and
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Armenians voted in a presidential election on Monday that is likely to hand incumbent Serzh Sarksyan a new five-year term, but the lack of any serious opposition and an assassination attempt on one of his rivals cast a shadow over the election. Opinion polls suggest Sarksyan's victory is all but certain. He is on target
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Ecuador's charismatic President Rafael Correa reveled in a sweeping re-election victory that allows him to deepen his socialist revolution even as he seeks to woo foreign investment in the resource-wealthy Andean nation. The pugnacious 49-year-old economist trounced his nearest rival by more than 30 percentage points on Sunday to win a new four-year term. He has
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Japanese shares surged 2.1% on Monday and were on the brink of revisiting four-year highs tapped recently, as the yen slumped after Tokyo dodged direct criticism from G20 peers on its aggressive reflation plans that have weakened the currency. The G20 opted not to single out Tokyo, but committed members to refrain from competitive devaluations
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