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| Connecticut launches probe into Lenovo use of Superfish software | |  Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen's office said on Monday it has launched an investigation into Lenovo Group Ltd's sales of laptops preloaded with Superfish software, which the U.S. government last month warned made users vulnerable to cyberattacks. The office said that Jepsen last week sent letters to Lenovo, the world's biggest personal computer maker, and privately held software maker Superfish asking them to provide information, including contracts and emails that discuss their partnership. Reports that the preloaded software tracks users' web searching and browsing for advertising purposes are "alarming revelations" that suggest Lenovo may have "seriously undermined computer users' online security and privacy," Jepsen said in his Feb. 27 letter to Lenovo. A Lenovo spokesman said the company has seen Jepsen's letter "and will cooperate in responding to the query." Superfish has not yet received the letter but expects to cooperate fully with the investigation, according to an email from a spokeswoman.
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| Exclusive - Nemtsov killing sign of worsening climate in Russia: Obama | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that the killing of opposition figure Boris Nemtsov is a sign of a worsening climate in Russia where civil rights and media freedoms have been rolled back in the last several years. Nemtsov was gunned down near the Kremlin on Friday night in a gangland-style murder. "This is an indication of a climate at least inside of Russia in which civil society, independent journalists, people trying to communicate on the Internet, have felt increasingly threatened, constrained. The U.S. president has called for a full investigation into the slaying of Nemtsov, a critic of President Vladimir Putin, and a former deputy prime minister.
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| Exclusive - Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday sharply criticized China's plans for new rules on U.S. tech companies, urging Beijing to change the policy if it wants to do business with the United States and saying he had raised it with President Xi Jinping. In an interview with Reuters, Obama said he was concerned about Beijing's plans for a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys, the passcodes that help protect data, and install security "backdoors" in their systems to give Chinese authorities surveillance access. "This is something that I've raised directly with President Xi," Obama said. "We have made it very clear to them that this is something they are going to have to change if they are to do business with the United States." The Chinese government sees the rules as crucial to protect state and business secrets.
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| Chadian troops seize Nigerian town of Dikwa from Boko Haram | | | Chadian troops drove out Boko Haram militants from the town of Dikwa in Nigeria, an army spokesman said on Monday, losing one soldier in the battle. "We have total control of the town," said Colonel Azem Bermandoua. He added that many Boko Haram fighters had also been killed in the clashes on Monday in northeastern Nigeria, the Islamist group's stronghold. A Reuters reporter on the scene said black and white Boko Haram flags still flew in a town deserted of residents after several weeks of occupation. |
| Former HP chairman admits 'mistake' in venture firm sexism trial | |  By Sarah McBride and Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Onetime highflying tech executive Ray Lane testified on Monday during a sex discrimination trial involving his former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, that he made a mistake in judgement involving the harassment of a female venture capitalist at the firm. Lane, who previously served as executive chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co and president of Oracle Corp , told the court that he erred in not immediately informing others that Trae Vassallo told him about unwanted advances by her colleague, Ajit Nazre, during a 2011 business trip. Whether Kleiner reacted appropriately to allegations of sexism is at the heart of the suit, filed by former partner Ellen Pao.
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| Police come under questioning in case of New York boy missing since 1979 | |  By Natasja Sheriff NEW YORK (Reuters) - Attorneys for a former grocery store worker accused of the 1979 killing of a New York City boy pressed a police detective on Monday about his interrogation techniques, as they seek to prove the accused man's confession was coerced. Pedro Hernandez, on trial for the kidnapping and murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz, confessed in 2012 to police that he choked the boy, stuffed him in a box and left him in a New York alley. Patz vanished as he walked alone for the first time to a school bus stop in his Manhattan neighbourhood on May 25, 1979. Testifying in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, New York Police Detective James Lamendola said he repeatedly told Hernandez: "The lies must stop" and "we need the truth" in the hour they were alone together in a room before Hernandez confessed.
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| Sunderland's Johnson arrested on suspicion of sex with girl, 15, | |  Sunderland and England midfielder Adam Johnson was arrested on Monday on suspicion of having sex with an under-age girl, the BBC reported. "A 27-year-old man was arrested earlier today on suspicion of sexual activity with a girl under 16," Durham Police said in a statement. British media said Sunderland had suspended Johnson, who has won 12 England caps, while police investigations were ongoing.
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| Bomb blast near top court building in Cairo kills two | |  By Ahmed Tolba CAIRO (Reuters) - Two people were killed when a bomb exploded near a top court building in central Cairo on Monday, the health ministry said, extending a series of such attacks in the Egyptian capital. The repeated security incidents in Cairo have raised concern over the effectiveness of security forces who have pledged to end Islamist militant violence bedevilling government efforts to revive investment and foreign tourism crucial to the economy and stability of the Arab world's most populous country. ...
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| Takata to double replacement inflator output over next six months | |  Takata Corp said on Monday it plans to double its capacity to make replacement air bag inflators over the next six months and it continues testing parts that could explode with too much force. The Japanese supplier said it expects to be producing about 900,000 replacement kits per month by September, up from 450,000 now. Several lawsuits have been filed, and U.S. safety regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration claim the air bags explode with too much force, spraying metal fragments at occupants. Takata Chief Executive Shigehisa Takada said in a statement about the testing that "definitive conclusions have not yet been reached." However, he added the testing so far supported the company's initial analysis that age and long-term exposure to persistent heat and high absolute humidity are significant factors in the small number of malfunctioning inflators.
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| Accused al Qaeda operative wrote in code about UK bomb plot - U.S. | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pakistani man used a code in which women's names substituted for bomb materials when he would email with al Qaeda about a plot to kill hundreds of people in England in 2009, a U.S. prosecutor said on Monday. Abid Naseer sent an al Qaeda operative emails with stilted language about women and a wedding, but the emails were actually about a planned car bombing, prosecutor Zainab Ahmad told jurors at the close of a federal trial in Brooklyn, New York. The emails contained women's names like Huma and Nadia in place of bomb making materials starting with the same letter, such as hydrogen peroxide and nitrate, she said. "They're so coded that they're half gibberish," yet they reflected Nasser's intent to carry out an attack on al Qaeda's behalf, Ahmad said in her closing argument.
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| Morgan Stanley in settlement talks with NY attorney general - source | |  By Karen Freifeld and Lauren Tara LaCapra NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley's is in discussions with New York's attorney general to settle accusations that the Wall Street bank mishandled subprime mortgage deals before the 2008 financial crisis, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. Any settlement would be separate from a $2.6 billion agreement Morgan Stanley reached last month with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, said the person, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
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| Iran's Guards increase monitoring of social media - state TV | |  Iran monitored 8 million Facebook accounts with new software and will watch other social media sites for content that contravenes the Islamic Republic's moral codes, state television reported on Monday. The Centre for Investigation of Organised Crime, a branch of the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), accused Facebook of spreading immoral content and said it had arrested several users. "[Facebook] is trying to push its users towards immoral content via its suggestion system, by making them choose harmful, decadent and obscene content over beneficial and educational subject matter," the IRGC said in a statement cited by state TV and other Iranian media.
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