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Automakers are increasingly connecting their new car models to meet growing consumer demand for in-car technology. But automakers aren't the only players seeking opportunities in the connected car market. BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled a slide deck that highlights how tech companies are positioned to win the battle over the car's dashboard. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Business Insider

PostGhost's tweet collection was too broad for Twitter's liking. While Twitter isn't completely opposed to third-party sites preserving tweets, it has its limits: the social network has effectively shut down PostGhost, a days-old service that archived the tweets of verified users with "tens of thousands" of followers. Twitter would only tell us that the site was violating its developer tool policies, such as honoring content as it's displayed on Twitter proper. However, you could also...

Shodan has turned up half a million D-Link devices exposed to the internet, and subject to easy hijacking using zero-day vulnerabilities. The stack overflow vulnerabilities affect more than 120 D-Link products, from Wi-Fi cameras to routers and modems, and allow remote attackers to completely hijack the administer account of the devices to install backdoors and intercept traffic. D-Link has been contacted for comment. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Antivirus company Avast Software is planning to acquire Dutch rival AVG Technologies for $1.3 Billion in cash. Avast announced today that it would buy Amsterdam-based AVG Technologies for $25 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.3 Billion in an aim to expand its presence in the emerging markets. With more than 230 Million users worldwide, Avast provides free and paid security software packages for both PCs as well as mobile devices to businesses...

Iran's second largest mobile operator, Irancell, lost the personal information of 20 million customers in a data leak last week - almost one-fourth of the country population - in the biggest known data breach in Iran's cyber-history . A few days later, Iran's cyber-police announced that they had arrested a 19 year-old computer student, accused of being responsible for disseminating the data. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

Remember when Wendy’s updated its breach disclosure in May to report that it was 300 stores impacted? They subsequently revealed that they had found two types of malware and the number of impacted stores could be “considerably higher.” Well, now it’s 1,025 stores. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: DataBreaches.net

Just days after the fatal shooting of a black man by Baton Rouge police prompted international outrage and a Justice Department investigation, the Baton Rouge city government’s servers have been “hacked” and 50,000 city police records leaked online including names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. A hacker named @0x2Taylor claimed responsibility for accessing the database on Thursday afternoon. It is unclear whether Taylor accessed the data himself or was given it by a third-party and took credit. The...

The total disregard for any security features in the creation of the Redis database server has come around to haunt the project years after, as Risk Based Security (RBS) reports discovering 6,338 compromised Redis servers. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Softpedia

Vadim Polyakov was sentenced to 4-to-12 years in state prison for coordinating an international cybercrime and money laundering scheme that involved the theft of personal information from users of an e-ticket service operated by StubHub, and the resale of thousands illegally acquired e-tickets. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security

After taking a hiatus, Mac malware is suddenly back, with three newly discovered strains that have access to Web cameras, password keychains, and pretty much every other resource on an infected machine. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Arstechnica