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Britain's top crime fighting force has failed in a legal attempt to force alleged hacker Lauri Love to hand over his hard disk's encryption keys. In a landmark case, District Judge Nina Tempia said the investigative agency should have used the normal police powers rather than a civil action to obtain the evidence. Lauri Love, a 31-year-old hacker, has been accused of aiding cyber-attacks against U.S. targets, including NASA, FBI, US Army and US Federal Reserve networks....

Windows users woke up to something that doesn't happen every day: the disclosure of two zero-day vulnerabilities, one in the Microsoft operating system and the other in Adobe's Flash Player. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Ars Technica

Dubbed Viking Horde, the new malware has waged war by infecting certain apps at the Google Play store, researchers at Check Point said Monday. Affected apps include Viking Jump, Parrot Copter, Memory Booster, Simple 2048 and WiFi Plus. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CNet

Peter Romar, also known as Pierre Romar, a 36-year-old Syrian living in Germany was extradited to the US and appeared in front of a US judge in the Eastern District of Virginia today. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Softpedia

Parenting retailer Kiddicare has suffered a data breach that exposed the names, addresses and telephone numbers of some of its customers. The company said it had emailed 794,000 people who may have been affected by the incident. It said the data had been taken from a version of its website set up for testing purposes. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) on Monday retroactively reported to Congress that five additional “major incidents” of data breaches have occurred since Oct. 30. FDIC also is launching “a new initiative to enhance security.” The incidents involved the breach of taxpayers’ personally identifiable information, The Washington Post has learned. In each case, employees with legitimate access to the information were leaving the agency when they inadvertently downloaded the data along with personal files. The individuals...

UserVoice has admitted a cyberattack which has exposed sensitive data belonging to a small subset of users with administrator or contributor status. According to a UserVoice update, the company's backend administrative system experienced a data breach in April which has led to the theft of customer names, along with associated emails, one-way encrypted passwords and random salt strings for a small subset (0.001 percent) of users. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

Pop trash giant PerezHilton.com has served the world's most dangerous exploit kit to some of its 500,000 daily visitors. The site is home to Hollywood and celebrity news and has been pwned before under hugely-successful malvertising campaigns using the dominant Angler exploit kit. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Alleged hacker Peter Romar, 36, has been extradited to the US following evidence of his involvement with the hacker group known as the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). Expected to appear in the Eastern District of Virginia court on Tuesday, the German national is believed to have also helped extort money from US companies. Working with Firas Dardar, a member of the SEA, Romar would receive extortion payment from victims, after which he would send the money to Syria....

Political consultant and cybersecurity company owner David Levin has been jailed on accusations of hacking into the state elections website on Jan. 4 and Jan. 31. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement accused Levin, who turned himself in just hours after an arrest warrant was issued in his name, of three counts of third-degree-felony property crimes. After six hours in Lee County Jail, Lee paid a $15,000 bond and was released, pending his appearance in...