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  Infoworld: Google has updated its terms of service to reflect that it analyzes user content including emails to provide users tailored advertising, customized search results and other features. The Internet giant's scanning of users' email has been controversial with privacy groups describing it as an intrusion into user privacy.  

  CBC: The Canada Revenue Agency knew last Friday that hundreds of Canadians had their social insurance numbers stolen from its website because of the Heartbleed security bug but waited until Monday to make it public. "The Canada Revenue Agency contacted our office last Friday afternoon to notify us about the attack and of the measures it was taking to mitigate risks and notify affected individuals," said Valerie Lawton, a spokesperson for the Privacy Commissioner's...

  Computer World: Around 80 percent of home computer users who admit that they don’t take measures to protect their online security cite laziness as the reason, a PhD study from Victoria University of Wellington has found. “At home there’s no punishment for not taking measures to protect yourself so it really comes down to individual initiative.  

  Telegraph: Nine hundred Canadians have had their Social Insurance Numbers stolen from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) website, as a result of the Heartbleed security bug. The Agency said that it became aware of the breach while updating its systems to patch the Heartbleed vulnerability. The theft reportedly happened over a six-hour period after the security flaw was discovered, and before the Agency blocked public access to its online services on Wednesday 9 April,...

CSO: While security vendors weigh their product ranges for vulnerability to the recently discovered 'Heartbleed' bug, Symantec's massive digital certificate infrastructure remains secure – but the company is advising customers to update the vulnerable OpenSSL code and then regenerate their public key infrastructure (PKI) private keys, according to its Melbourne-based senior principal systems engineer Nick Savvides. The high-profile bug had generated a flood of calls to the company's Melbourne customer support centre – one of four facilities in the...

Sydney Morning Herald: GE Money is recommending customers change their passwords in the wake of the Heartbleed security bug, which appears to have made vulnerable a number of GE's Australian websites. Financial websites run by GE Money, including the Myer Visa Card and Myer Card portals, as well as Coles Mastercard, were vulnerable to the Heartbleed security bug, Fairfax Media can reveal. A number of other GE partner websites, including 28degrees Mastercard, were also vulnerable.

Guardian: The parenting website Mumsnet has become one of the latest high-profile organisations to warn that users' data had been obtained by hackers exploiting the so-called Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability to the open-source code used by thousands of websites which became apparent last week. The site, which has 1.5 million registered members, said it had no way of knowing who had been affected before the security hole was patched up and had decided to require all users who created...

  BBC: Millions of Android devices remain vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug a week after the flaw was made public. Google announced last week that handsets and tablets running version 4.1.1 of its mobile operating system were at risk. The search giant has since created a fix, but it has yet to be pushed out to many of the devices that cannot run higher versions of the OS.  

  The Verge: A new a piece believed to be the work of street artist Banksy has emerged in the English town of Cheltenham. It touches on themes Banksy has explored before, namely the "surveillance state," with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. The untitled artwork subverts a phone booth and satellite dish, adding shady Dick Tracy-esque men that are assumedly listening in on phone calls. As well as appropriating existing objects to make a point, Banksy...

US retailers are planning to form an industry group for collecting and sharing intelligence about cyber security threats in a bid to prevent future attacks in the wake of last year's big attack on Target US.   The National Retail Federation said it will establish an Information Sharing and Analysis Centre, or ISAC, for the retail industry in June.