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Infosecurity: Bell Canada announced Sunday that "22,421 user names and passwords and 5 valid credit card numbers of Bell small-business customers were posted on the Internet this weekend." It claims that it was not directly breached, but that the "posting results from illegal hacking of an Ottawa-based third-party supplier." But there's more to the story. NullCrew, a hacking group that has been relatively quiet for some time (in late 2012 it dumped data stolen from a DoD...

The Guardian - Tens of thousands of accounts associated with customers of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Yahoo have their data turned over to US government authorities every six months as the result of secret court orders, the tech giants disclosed for the first time on Monday. As part of a transparency deal reached last week with the Justice Department, four of the tech firms that participate in the National Security Agency’s Prism effort, which collects largely overseas internet...

Infosecurity: Following the recent major breaches at numerous US retail companies, four leading Democrat senators have introduced new legislation, the Data Security and Breach Notification Act, designed to charge the FTC with developing 'robust but flexible' security rules that would be required of all businesses that hold consumers' personal information.   The four senators are Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee; John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation;...

Malwarebytes: Sunday night, right after the Superbowl ended, the very first commercial was from Esurance, the insurance company, advertising a $1.5 Million giveaway for all the money they saved by not buying air time DURING the Superbowl. Excited participants need only tweet with the hash-tag #EsuranceSave30 before 1 AM PST on Tuesday. You had better believe the Twitterverse has exploded with hopeful winners and then of course anything that gets THAT kind of attention is OBVIOUSLY going to...

Naked Security - A group of teenagers from Orange County, California, have been expelled from schoolfor breaking into teacher accounts to cheat on tests and adjust their grades. The 11 youths, from Corona Del Mar High School in the Newport Beach area of Southern California, apparently used a hardware keylogger to snoop on their teachers' login and password details.  

BBC: A "coding error" on the NHS website exposed users to harmful websites rather than health advice. More than 800 pages on NHS.uk automatically redirected unsuspecting users to pages that contain either malware or advertising.

The Local - Hacking group, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), has filed a criminal complaint against the entire German government, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, over the spying scandal. The CCC and the International League for Human Rights (ILMR) filed the complaint on Monday with the Federal Prosecutor General's office.  

IT World - Hackers found a new way to slip past security software and deliver Zeus, a long-known malicious software program that steals online banking details. Security company Malcovery Security, based in Georgia, alerted security analysts after finding that none of 50 security programs on Google's online virus scanning service VirusTotal were catching it as of early Sunday.

Computer Weekly - Suppliers of web applications took nearly two weeks on average to release critical security updates after being notified of a vulnerability in 2013, research has revealed. But this is a 35% improvement on the year before, according to the latest Web Application Security Trends report by Swiss information security firm High-Tech Bridge.

The Register: Governments invited to Brussels for a look up Redmond' skirts