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PC World: AT&T plans to test a service allowing payment card providers to access the location of a customer’s phone to improve the accuracy of fraud prevention systems for transactions made abroad. The service is part of AT&T’s Location Information Services portfolio, and allows businesses to access network data to locate a device to authenticate a user’s location, helping to protect against potential fraud. For the fraud protection to work, users will first have to opt in,...

The Register: Sensitive information of more than 16,000 US Army personnel stationed in South Korea, plus data on local employees and job applicants, appears to have been compromised after databases loaded with names, identification numbers and addresses were accessed by unauthorised and unknown parties. Specific details of how the 28 May raid was launched were not disclosed. but banking details and classified data was not compromised.

Techcrunch: CyberX a software security startup that launched last year out of the UpWest Labsaccelerator, has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Glilot Capital Partners with participation from Shaul Shani's Swarth Group, Leon Recanati's GlenRock, and angel investor Gigi Levy-Weiss. Co-founded by two veterans of the Israeli army's elite cyber security unit, CyberX has built technology that protects "industrial Internet" networks that serve as the underpinnings for crucial sectors such...

Arstechnica: It's been almost a year since the June 5, 2013 revelation that the US government was collecting, in bulk, the telephone metadata of every telephone call to and from the United States. Yet despite the global outrage, the US electronic surveillance state continues unabated a year after Snowden became a household name. All the while, just one piece of reform legislation cleared the US House, and that legislation allows the telephone snooping to continue, with...

Tweaktown: A privacy campaigner for "Stop The Cyborgs" has come up with a novel way to prevent being recorded by a Google Glass wearing Glasshole - a simple program that knows when Glass is being used and prevents it from connecting to a network. The program will no doubt be to the chagrin of the Valley's Glass-wearing enthusiasts, as it prevents it from connecting to the cloud completely. But Stop The Cyborg's Julian Oliver claims...

First Post: Cyber criminals are most likely to use names of famous footballers like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to lure netizens to malicious webpages designed to infect them with malware, cyber security firm McAfee said. McAfee, part of Intel Security, has brought out 'Red Card Club' list showcasing the top 11 Brazil-bound football players whose web pages are considered to be risky for fans to search for online.

PC World: The U.S. Congress must pass legislation to ban mobile spying apps in order to protect victims of domestic violence, a senator said Wednesday. Groups aiding victims of domestic violence report growing numbers of clients being stalked through mobile apps secretly installed on their phones by abusers, said Senator Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat. Tens of thousands of U.S. residents are stalked each year through spy apps, he said.

Arstechnica: An educational website that bills itself as the UK's top source for "unbiased, factual and easy-to-understand information on online safety" isn't living up to its promise. Not only is the password strength meter for Get Safe Online completely unreliable, it also transmits user-supplied candidates in address URLs, where they are vulnerable to hackers and shoulder surfers alike. The sole exhibit in making this case is the above screenshot, showing how the Get Safe Onlinepassword checker graded...

The Register: Two programmers hope to resurrect development of disk-encryption tool TrueCrypt after its original developers quit the project. The official TrueCrypt.org website abruptly shut up shop last week ostensibly because its secretive maintainers felt they could no longer keep the software secure. They blamed the Microsoft's discontinuation of official support for Windows XP, withdrew previous versions of the utility, and released a new version of TrueCrypt, v7.2, which can only decrypt data.

Softpedia: After China last month decided to ban Windows 8 on government computers, country officials now asked the authorities of a province to cancel orders for new PCs running this particular operating system. Jiangsu province in south of Shanghai planned to purchase computers running Windows 8 and upgrade the local hardware infrastructure, but due to a notification received from the central government in February, authorities decided to cancel the acquisition completely.