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• 17 June 2013

• News: Companies unprepared for data breaches, says security survey

  According to Protiviti's 2013 Security and Privacy Survey, a large number of companies are not adequately prepared to respond to a data breach of IT security crisis, despite a broader recognition that cyber threats are more prevalent.

• News: Rising SSL traffic to degrade firewall performance

  Drop in performance caused by extra workload required to decrypt data packets to look for malicious code, then re-encrypting before sending

• News: Apple responds to PRISM reports, emphasizes user-privacy efforts

  In an open letter published to Apple's website Sunday, the company outlined its policies for responding to government requests for information and promised to work to safeguard user privacy.

• News: U.S. consumers not buying web advertisers' 'relevance' argument for tracking

  Marketers and advertisers constantly say that their practice of tracking us as we move around the web is a good thing because it lets them present us with more relevant ads and site content. But a new survey from Adobe and Edelman Berland (a division of public relations giant Edelman) suggests most people aren't buying it.

• News: Do Microsoft's vulnerability tip-offs give the U.S. a cyber sword or a cyber shield?

  Windows users know it's a good idea to apply security fixes to their PCs as soon as patches are publicly released to prevent malicious actors from infiltrating their machines. But what if, before a patch was issued, the U.S. government was able to exploit those vulnerabilities using information fed to it by Microsoft?

• News: More malware is traveling on P2P networks these days

  Hackers have found a devious new way to disseminate malware: They're using peer-to-peer networks.

• News: Apple received thousands of data requests from US law enforcers

  Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. law enforcement between Dec. 1 and May 31, the company said on Monday.

• 15 June 2013

• News: Facebook, Microsoft disclose FISA requests, sort of

  Both Facebook and Microsoft said late Friday that they had been given permission from the U.S. government to disclose how many times the two companies had been asked to turn over user information to the Feds as part of a national security order.

• News: Facebook, Microsoft disclose little on national security requests

  Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from U.S. authorities in the second half of last year, they said late Friday.

• News: China to be the largest WAF market

  China is expected to surpass South Korea and become the largest Web application firewall (WAF) market, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan.

• News: 7 essentials for defending against DDoS attacks

  Go ahead and ask CSOs from the nation's largest banks about the myriad distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks they've experienced in recent months. They're not going to tell you anything.

• 14 June 2013

• News: Digital surveillance programs in other countries trigger controversy

  Last week's disclosure of massive data collection efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency has generated heated debate in the U.S. and across the world about privacy. The NSA is collecting metadata on U.S. residents' phone calls made on Verizon's network and Internet records from nine Web companies, including Facebook, Google and Microsoft, according to reports in the Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers. But intelligence agencies in other countries have similar goals, according to reports, and in some cases there are few details about what data these governments are collecting.

• News: 'Stop Watching Us' Coalition Aims to Stop NSA's PRISM Surveillance Program

  Reddit, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others from across the political spectrum join forces to flood members of Congress with letters seeking revisions to the Patriot Act and reforms that will rein in the NSA's surveillance of Internet and phone records via a program known as PRISM.

• News: Nextdoor, your neighborhood social network, buddies up with New York City

  For better or worse, life is nothing like the Andy Griffith Show. Unless you live in Mayberry, chances are that you barely even know your neighbors, let alone borrow cups of sugar from them.

• News: NYC wants its old mechanical-lever voting machines back

  The New York City Board of Elections is hoping to replace state-of-the art optical scanning voting machines with decades-old mechanical-lever machines for the city's mayoral primary in September.

• News: Does encryption really shield you from government's prying eyes?

  If you're thinking about encrypting email in light of revelations about U.S. government spying, you may be wasting your time.

• News: Businesses slow-walk classified data-sharing efforts with feds

  Costs, skepticism dampen participation in Enhanced Cybersecurity Services initiative

• News: EU justice commissioner on Prism: EU citizens' rights are not negotiable

  Europe’s Justice Commission said Friday that she would not sacrifice European citizens’ rights for United States’ national security.

• News: Oracle to ship 40 security fixes for Java SE

  Oracle is set to release a patch set for Java SE that targets 40 security vulnerabilities.

• News: Apple's security strategy: make it invisible

  When I received an invitation to the keynote event at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, my first reaction was, "Why?" I'm known as a security guy, which means my keynote invites are only when major security features are released. But as I watched the presentations, I began to understand why.

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