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HELP-NET SECURITY
Skype Becomes A Malware Minefield
With the announcement of Skype in the Workspace, first-time Skype users and businesses should be careful when using Skype given the latest threats on the site

COMPUTERWORLD
Exposure Of Files On Unsecured Wireless No Excuse To Search, Judge Rules
Warrantless search of a file violated a child pornography defendant's Fourth Amendment right, federal judge says

COMPUTERWORLD
Twitter Flaw Gave Private Message Access To Third-Party Apps, Researcher Says
Apps that gained this permission without proper authorization still have it after Twitter fixes issue

THREAT POST
Twitter Bug Allowed Apps to Access Direct Messages Without Permission
Flaw enables access even though users have not given those rights to the app

TECHWORLD
John McAfee Biopic Will Dramatize Antivirus Entrepreneur's Eventful Life
Canadian company buys rights to make $28 million movie from unpublished memoirs of antivirus founder

DVLABS
Pwn2Own Competition Expanded
Hacking competition will now include vulnerabilities outside the Web browser

ARS TECHNICA
Cracking Tool Milks Weakness To Reveal Some Mega Passwords
Dotcom's Mega aids crackers by sending password hashes in plain text email

ZDNET
Sri Lanka Government Websites Hit In Spate Of Attacks
Hacker Davy Jones breaches government sites as well as those of two TV stations

CSO
iPhone Hackers Hint At Progress Towards iOS 6 Jailbreak
Two new vulnerabilities found in a day, according to one of the hackers

CYBER WARZONE
Red October Cyberattack Discovered Targeting Governments
Espionage malware targets diplomats, government employees, and scientific research

ARS TECHNICA
Two U.S. Power Plants Infected With Malware Spread Via USB Drive
Investigators find no up-to-date antivirus, system backups for control systems

ARS TECHNICA
Why Red October Malware Is The Swiss Army Knife Of Espionage
With more than 1,000 separate components, attack represents the age of super malware

BLOOMBERG
Naked-Image Scanners To Be Removed From U.S. Airports
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will remove airport body scanners after the manufacturer was unable to update its software to make passenger images less revealing

QUARTZ
The Death Of Aaron Swartz Is The Failure Of Brinksmanship -- And Prosecution Of Real Computer Crimes
Swartz should have been given a restraining order to stay away from MIT or fined

USA TODAY
Feds: Infected USB Drive Idled Power Plant 3 Weeks
An infected USB spread to a turbine-control system at a U.S. power plant last fall and took three weeks for it to restart, the DHS says

DEFENSE NEWS
DoD Looking To 'Jump The Gap' Into Adversaries' Closed Networks
Army program will demonstrate, test systems that can insert and extract data from sealed, wired networks

COMPUTERWORLD
Malware Masquerades As Patch For Java
But it does not exploit Java vulnerabilities, Trend Micro says

NAKED SECURITY BLOG
War Of Words Continues Over Cisco Linksys Router Access Exploit
Remote attacker would need to authenticate to victim���s WiFi network first, so avoid WEP and choose a good password

SC MAGAZINE
Patient Data Revealed In Medical Device Hack
Unpatched flaws within the Philips Xper systems allowed researchers, within two hours, to develop an exploit capable of gaining remote root access

MASHABLE
Mystery Online Theft Operation 'Red October' Is Winding Down
Red October is disappearing quickly and its infrastructure dismantled or relocated after being exposed

SANS INTERNET STORM CENTER
86 Oracle Updates
Among the massive number of vulnerabilities in Oracle's security patch release was one with a risk of 9 out of 10

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Europe Weighs Requiring Firms To Disclose Data Breaches
The European Commission is considering a plan to require companies that store data online, such as Microsoft, Apple, and Google, to report the loss or theft of personal information in the 27-nation bloc or risk sanctions and fines

SECURELIST
Red October Java Exploit Delivery Vector Analysis
The attackers behind the 'Red October' targeted attacks used a Java exploit called 'Rhino' as one of their malware weapons

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Should 'Good' Hackers Be Protected By Law?
Dutch member of parliament who exposed a security gap on a medical site is himself accused of hacking crimes

SOFTPEDIA
WBC Threatens To Picket Aaron Swartz Funerals; Anonymous Intervenes
Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church say they will protest, spurring hacktivist reaction

eSECURITY PLANET
Man Charged With Launching Cyberattacks On Vladimir Putin
The unidentified 30-year-old man faces up to four years in prison

eSECURITY PLANET
Michael Jackson Hackers Sentenced
James Marks and James McCormick received six-month suspended sentences, along with 100 hours of community service

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Lessons To Crack Down On Cyber Bullies
Some 600,000 Australian students to receive cybersafety training

CSO
Mobile Devices, Social Networks To Remain Security Targets In 2013: Sourcefire
Greatest challenge for today's security infrastructure is advanced malware attacks, report says

TECHWORLD
Iran Vs. USA -- The World's First Cyberwar Has Started
It sometimes hides behind hacktivism, but 75-Gbps peak DDoS on U.S. banks is no amateur protest

PC MAGAZINE
Hackers Who Tangled With The Feds And Lost
These hackers have taken on the U.S. government, only to land in jail or incur hefty fines

THREAT POST
Emergency Zero-Day Patch Does Not Quiet Calls To Disable Java
Experts say there are ways to bypass a security configuration in the update -- and others are concerned about fixes for vulnerabilities reported months ago that still have not been addressed

THE PALM BEACH POST
State Investigates Security Breach At Department Of Juvenile Justice
Florida law enforcement officials are investigating a breach at the Florida Dept. of Juvenile Justice that exposed information on 100,000 employees and youth offenders

SOFTPEDIA
Security Researcher Moxie Marlinspike Leaves Twitter
Marlinspike announced via Twitter that he’s leaving the company and has some ‘fun projects' under way

IMMUNITY PRODUCTS BLOG
Confirmed: Java Only Fixed One Of The Two Bugs
Immunity's analysis of the new Oracle Java 7 update 11 finds that only one of the two vulnerabilities were fixed, so Java remains vulnerable to one of the bugs used in the exploit spreading in the wild

SECURITY WEEK
Russian Faces 4 Years For Attack On Kremlin Website
A 30-year-old Russian man who allegedly organized an hour-long DDoS attack on the Kremlin website in support of the political opposition faces up to four years in prison

THE TELEGRAPH
Anonymous Hacktivists Target MIT Websites Over Aaron Swartz Suicide
Anonymous has defaced websites at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the wake of the suicide of free information-activist Aaron Swartz, who was due to face trial for allegedly stealing academic papers from the university

COMPUTERWORLD
New Congress Seen Shunning SOPA
Concerns on the Hill that a new bill like the Stop Online Piracy Act would result in massive online protests again

CTV NEWS
RCMP Investigating After Ottawa Loses Data On 583,000 Students
A portable hard drive containing personal information about more than half a million people who took out student loans went missing, exposing information on 583,000 Canada Student Loans Program borrowers from 2000 to 2006

REUTERS
Exclusive: JP Morgan Faces U.S. Order To Improve Compliance -- Sources
U.S. regulatory probe of JP Morgan Chase will result in order that the bank better police suspicious money-movement


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