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The Register: Apple has quietly made a change to the networking stack of its forthcoming iOS 8 smartphone OS that could put an additional stumbling block in front of advertisers, marketers, and other snoops looking to collect information about you from your mobile devices.

Telegraph: His FBI "most wanted" page shows a grinning, shaven-headed figure, accused of a string of very grand thefts across America. With a total haul estimated at more than $100 million, and tricks that ran rings around the police, the case against Evgeniy Bogachev could form yet another sequel to the Oceans 11 heist movies.  

Tweaktown: Cyber criminals are becoming more brazen about their cybercriminal activities, boasting on social media, and offering custom wares on underground forums. It's also possible to visit these forums to recruit cyber mercenaries to conduct hacking behaviour and create malware to customers willing to pay for their services.  

PC World: Ransomware attacks like CryptoLocker have been plaguing users for a while now. The recent shutdown of the Gameover Zeus botnet has led to a dramatic decline in these types of attacks, but you can expect that cybercriminals will regroup and launch new ones soon enough. But KnowBe4, a company that offers security awareness training, is so confident it can teach users to protect themselves, it's offering to pay the ransom if a customer...

Gizmodo: A new hack that requires little more than a $250 1-watt amplifier could leave your smart TV vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. It's called the "Red Button" attack, after the red button on your remote that allows you to control the interactive features of your smart TV, and was discovered by two researchers at the Columbia University Network Security Lab.  

Krebs on Security: When you’re planning to rob the Russian cyber mob, you’d better make sure that you have the element of surprise, that you can make a clean getaway, and that you understand how your target is going to respond. Today’s column features an interview with two security experts who helped plan and execute last week’s global, collaborative effort to hijack the Gameover Zeus botnet, an extremely resilient and sophisticated crime machine that helped...

Arstechnica: The federal judge that had temporarily ordered the National Security Agency to preserve all evidence in a longstanding surveillance case, including data gathered specifically under the government’s Section 702 program, has now reversed that order. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is the legal authority which the NSA uses as the basis forPRISM and other surveillance and data collection programs. The government is still required to preserve data collected under Section 215...

Arstechnica: The town manager of a hamlet in south eastern New Hampshire has defied demands that he pay a ransom to recover police department computer files taken hostage by Cryptowall, a newer piece of malware that encrypts hard drive contents of infected machines until victims pay for them to be decrypted. "Make no mistake, the Town of Durham will be paying no ransom," Town Manager Todd Selig wasquoted as saying by CBS Boston news. Police department...

The Hacker News: While shopping online we need to first surf through number of pages and then finally have to fill credit and debit cards details manually into the browser, which is the annoying for most of the user. But now the new Safari feature in iOS 8 solves this problem by integrating camera-based Credit and Debit card reader.  

Telegraph: Britain's entire financial system is vulnerable to a cyber attack unless there is a greater co-operation between the leading banks and law enforcement agencies, senior industry figures have warned. Representatives from major global banks, government departments and international agencies will meet this week to try to get the ball rolling on co-ordinated systems which could reduce financial institutions’ exposure to hacking from organised criminals and foreign states.