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• 07 June 2013

• News: Privacy groups, some lawmakers rip into NSA surveillance

  Privacy groups and some lawmakers are in an uproar after news reports this week that the U.S. National Security Agency is conducting broad surveillance of the nation's residents.

• News: Mobile boom turns BYOD into unmanaged risk, Check Point finds

  The challenge of securing mobile technology is starting to overwhelm some IT departments, with many BYOD smartphones and tablets left in an unmanaged state despite the risk of data loss, a global survey by Check Point has found.

• News: Average cost per data breach has increased by 23 percent: Symantec

  The average cost per data breach for organisations has increased by 23 percent increase over the previous year, according to a recent study by Symantec.

• News: Report: NSA PRISM program spied on Americans' emails, searches

  For the last several years, the National Security Agency has been reportedly spying on the searches, emails, and file transfers of Americans using a program called PRISM--which tapped directly into the servers used by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others.

• News: FAQ: What the NSA phone snooping uproar is all about

  The Obama administration this week found itself in the middle of a raging controversy after The Guardian broke a story about a massive phone data collection effort by the National Security Agency (NSA). Here's the lowdown on what's going on.

• News: NSA, FBI mining data directly from major Internet companies, report says

  The FBI and the National Security Agency are tapping directly into servers at Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Skype and other major Internet companies to keep track of the communications and interactions of known and suspected foreign terrorists, the Washington Post reported.

• News: Huawei deal with BT shows 'disconnect' over national security policy, MPs say

  BT's decision to use Chinese telecoms firm Huawei to help build its 21st Century Network was a strategic misstep that has left the UK facing unquantifiable level of security risk, the influential Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee has said in a stinging rebuke to officials.

• News: Web companies summoned by government over illegal images and 'hate' content

  Culture secretary Maria Miller has summoned Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, ISPs and other internet companies to a meeting on 17 June to discuss ways in tackling widely available child abuse images, and online political and religious "extremist" material.

• News: Most mobile workers use their own gadgets to do their work

  The majority of mobile workers now use their own devices to do their work, according to research.

• News: US intelligence chief defends surveillance programs

  The U.S. government said late Thursday that it is authorized to collect intelligence information of non-U.S. persons located outside the country, in the wake of news reports on the government's surveillance programs.

• News: Critical IE update slated for Patch Tuesday

  The second Tuesday of each month is Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft offers a heads up the Thursday before. That's today, and Microsoft's Security Bulletin Advance Notification for June 2013 indicates it will be a laid-back month for IT admins--with one significant exception.

• News: Data breach costs rise again: report

  The average cost of a data breach to an Australian enterprise increased from A$2.16 million in 2011 to $2.72 million last year, according to the Ponemon Institute's 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study.

• News: Reports: NSA, FBI collecting content from Google, Facebook, other services

  The U.S. National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have access to servers at Google, Facebook and other major Internet services, collecting audio, video, e-mail and other content for surveillance, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

• 06 June 2013

• News: Businesses told to give up data when NSA calls

  Any company receiving a similar order to Verizon's would have no choice but to comply to avoid serious legal consequences, experts say

• News: Report: NSA, FBI collecting content from Google, Facebook, other services

  The U.S. National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have access to servers at Google, Facebook and other major Internet services, collecting audio, video, e-mail and other content for surveillance, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

• News: Android antivirus products a big flop, researchers say

  Android smartphones and tablets are under attack, and the most popular tools developed to protect them are easily circumvented, according to new research from Northwestern University and the University of North Carolina.

• News: Scope of NSA's phone data snooping is 'breathtaking'

  Although U.S. government officials said the NSA's efforts to secretly collect phone records of millions of Verizon customers is nothing new, reports about its size confirmed long-standing fears among privacy and civil rights advocates.

• News: Hacker publishes alleged zero-day remote code execution exploit for older Plesk versions

  A hacker released what he claims is a zero-day exploit for older versions of the Parallels Plesk Panel, a popular Web hosting administration software package, that could allow attackers to inject arbitrary PHP code and execute rogue commands on Web servers.

• News: Bill aims to discourage nations from sponsoring cyberattacks

  Three U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that would allow President Barack Obama's administration to deny U.S. travel visas to cyberattackers sponsored by foreign governments and to freeze their U.S.-based assets.

• News: Design Automation Conference at 50: Bring on the women, cloud and maybe even open source

  The Design Automation Conference (DAC) held here this week celebrated its 50th anniversary, prompting the industry and academic community that poured so much energy into chip, software and hardware design to both take a look back and to predict what the future may hold.

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