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• 12 June 2013

• News: PRISM revives data sovereignty arguments in Australia

  Revelations about surveillance activities by the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US may fuel fears among Australian businesses about offshoring data, according to privacy advocates.

• News: European commissioner demands Prism answers from US attorney general

  Europe's justice commissioner has given the U.S. attorney general until Friday to explain how far the so-called Prism program went in collecting European citizens' data.

• News: NSA revelations could push terrorists to other channels

  With options including mobile apps, social media and virtual worlds, knowing the capabilities may push more bad guys to 'go dark'

• News: Mozilla, others launch campaign to expose government snooping

  Dozens of political and technology groups call for full accounting of online monitoring programs

• News: GCHQ expected to hand over Prism spying report to MPs today

  UK listening centre GCHQ is handing a report to MPs today over its role in the US Prism spying effort.

• News: Toyota Financial Services boosts network security

  UK-based Toyota Financial Services has deployed a new network security system to protect its European financial services division.

• News: Facebook, Twitter support Google's call for transparency in surveillance requests

  Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have joined Google in asking for greater transparency in surveillance requests, following widespread criticism of the U.S. government's surveillance programs and the role of the Internet companies.

• News: Chinese seller of pirated software sentenced to 12 years in US prison

  The operator of a website that sold more than US$100 million worth of pirated software to customers worldwide was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in a U.S. federal prison.

• News: Google asks DOJ if it can release details on government data requests

  Google has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI director Robert Mueller seeking permission to disclose specific details about the information it is required to provide to the government in response to requests for user data from U.S. intelligence agencies.

• 11 June 2013

• News: Microsoft patches critical IE vulnerabilities and actively exploited Office flaw

  A new batch of security updates released by Microsoft on Tuesday address a total of 23 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows and Microsoft Office, including one that is actively exploited by attackers. The handling of digital certificates in Windows was also improved.

• News: Gartner reveals Top 10 IT Security Myths

  When it comes to information security, there are a lot of "misperceptions" and "exaggerations" about both the threats facing businesses and the technologies that might be used to protect their important data assets, according to Gartner analyst Jay Heiser.

• News: Stopwatching.us: Reddit, Mozilla, EFF and others join forces to fight for privacy

  A group of high-profile advocacy organizations, businesses, and important figures in the technology world have started a petition aimed at pressuring U.S. lawmakers into action over controversial digital surveillance activity undertaken by the government.

• News: ACLU files lawsuit challenging NSA surveillance

  The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of a U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program targeting customers of Verizon Communications.

• News: Senators, Google push for transparency at surveillance court

  A bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators has introduced legislation that would require the nation's attorney general to declassify opinions issued by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in an effort to shed light on the government surveillance programs the surveillance court approves.

• News: Global security market will grow to $86 billion by 2016, Gartner predicts

  The global market for security and services will rise to $67.2 billion (£45 billion) in 2013, with further stellar growth taking that as high as $86 billion by 2016, Gartner analysts at the firm's Security & Risk Management Summit have predicted.

• News: Bromium aims to protect users on the move with upgraded virtualization software

  Bromium's small virtual machines have been updated to protect users who send documents or connect to public wireless hotspots when on the move.

• News: Organizations push for Congress to curtail NSA spying

  Privacy advocates are pushing the U.S. Congress to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency's efforts to collect massive amounts of data from U.S. residents, as alleged in recent news reports.

• News: Booz Allen fires Snowdon, leaker of NSA spy docs

  Government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, as expected, today fired an IT employee who claimed responsibility for leaking documents that described highly classified government surveillance programs to the media.

• News: Retired admiral calls NSA leaks by Edward Snowden a 'data breach' and 'crisis'

  Adm. Mike Mullen, U.S. Navy (retired), called the leaks coming from former CIA employee Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency's role in intelligence collection a "huge breach" that undermines the country's security.

• News: NSA surveillance controversy: Much ado about nothing new?

  The only thing new about last week's "explosive" stories about telephone and Internet surveillance of American citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA) is that it made official what everybody has known, or should have known, for years.

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