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• 09 June 2013

• News: Prism leaker steps forward, cites 'massive surveillance machine'

  The person responsible for disclosing details on the growth of U.S. government surveillance programs that exploded into public view last week has identified himself as 29-year-old Edward Snowden, a technology contractor working at the U.S. National Security Agency.

• 08 June 2013

• News: ALRC backs fair use copyright reform, but political hurdles remain

  Australia took another step toward "fair use" copyright reform with a paper released this week by the Australian Law Reform Commission, but implementation of the ALRC's recommendations is not yet a sure thing.

• News: Zscaler fixes BYOD risk with new mobile traffic cloud filtering

  Zscaler has added mobile security to its arsenal of cloud-based security services which the firm is pitching as a flexible way to fix the risk of employee-owned devices bypassing conventional filtering systems.

• News: NSA snooping bolsters opponents of U.S. Internet control

  While the PRISM program appears to be legal, that does not make it good policy -- or good for international relations

• News: How to protect your PC from PRISM surveillance

  Thursday afternoon, a bombshell dropped: Two leading reports claimed that the U.S. government has been spying on emails, searches, Skype calls, and other electronic communications used by Americans for the last several years, via a program known as PRISM.

• News: Why isn't Twitter part of the NSA PRISM snooping program?

  Microsoft was the first to partner with the NSA in 2007, according to the once-secret PRISM PowerPoint deck. Other big-name tech companies followed, and even the obscure PalTalk joined the fray. But, quite conspicuously, Twitter never joined the government snooping program--there's no reference to the company in the NSA document.

• 07 June 2013

• News: Google flatly denies involvement in PRISM snooping program

  Google CEO Larry Page strongly denied on Friday that Google allowed the U.S. government back door access to its data centers via a controversial snooping program revealed this week called PRISM.

• News: Larry Page: US government has no access to information on Google servers

  Google has denied involvement in a U.S. government surveillance program called Prism since news broke Thursday that the National Security Agency has been accessing the servers of some of the largest Internet companies, but now company executives insist they had never heard of the program.

• News: Larry Page: US government has no access to information on Google servers

  Google has denied involvement in a U.S. government surveillance program called Prism since news broke Thursday that the National Security Agency has been accessing the servers of some of the largest Internet companies, but now company executives insist they had never heard of the program.

• News: Obama addresses PRISM surveillance, says government isn't listening to your calls

  "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," President Obama said during a Friday press conference, addressing concerns about the National Security Agency's extensive surveillance program for the first time since its existence leaked Wednesday night.

• News: ICO fines Glasgow City Council £150,000 for unencrypted laptop chaos

  Glasgow City Council has been fined £150,000 and heavily criticised after failing to encrypt dozens of laptops, including one containing the personal data of thousands of people that went missing from its offices.

• News: Negligence and glitches create 64% of data breaches

  More than a third of intrusions are pegged to malicious attacks in Ponemon/Symanec report

• News: Privacy tradeoffs are inevitable to keep nation safe, Obama says

  President Barack Obama today forcefully defended the government's data collection activities, calling them vital to protecting the nation against terrorist attacks.

• News: Reddit AMA: Skype founder finds it hard to say who to believe in PRISM scandal

  The finger-pointing about who is to blame in the unfolding PRISM Internet-spying scandal makes it hard to tell who to believe, says Jaan Tallinn, a founder of both Skype and Kazaa.

• News: Nationwide Building Society rolls out anti-skimming technology across ATMS

  Nationwide Building Society has rolled out anti-skimming technology on a number of its ATMs to protect UK customers from card fraud.

• News: Bitcoin ATM is 'horrible for money laundering,' co-creator says

  On the surface, Bitcoin seems perfect for crime. The digital, peer-to-peer currency is largely known for its independence from governments or banking institutions, as well as its supposed anonymity.

• News: Conservative activist files lawsuit over NSA surveillance

  A conservative activist has filed a lawsuit against U.S. President Barack Obama, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. National Security Agency after news reports that the NSA has been collecting the phone records of a large number of Verizon Communications customers.

• News: New Android Trojan app exploits previously unknown flaws, researchers say

  A newly discovered Trojan program exploits previously unknown flaws in Android and borrows techniques from Windows malware in order to evade detection and achieve persistence on infected devices.

• 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.

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