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A UK joint parliamentary committee reviewing the controversial draft Investigatory Powers Bill has called on the British government to ensure it will not force providers to decrypt communications or install backdoors. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IT News

Police in New York City used stingray mobile phone trackers on more than one thousand occasions since 2008. So says the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), which obtained records from NYPD detailing their use of the devices while investigating cases. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Earlier this week, a hacker dumped the apparent names, job positions, email addresses, and phone numbers of over 20,000 supposed Federal Bureau of Investigation employees (FBI), and over 9,000 alleged Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workers. Now, the FBI is trying to scrub that breached data from the face of the internet, no matter how futile that might be. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Motherboard

Along with its expansion to more countries, Netflix has become even more attractive to malware operations, who have not shied away from taking advantage of the company's users. According to Symantec researchers, Netflix users are targeted by a new malware campaign that advertises itself as a cheaper method of accessing and watching movies on Netflix. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Softpedia

Social engineering tops the list of the 10 most popular hacking methods, a security industry survey has shown. More than 70% of almost 500 IT security experts polled by European security technology firm Balabit said they considered insider threats more risky. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computer Weekly

A new Trojan dubbed T9000 that can record video calls, audio calls and chat messages on Skype has been uncovered by researchers at Palo Alto Networks. The security company said that the threat is a new type of backdoor malware that can evade detection by many popular anti-virus systems, including some big names such as Kaspersky and Panda. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computing

Kaspersky has confirmed the return of Carbanak as Carbanak 2.0 and uncovered two more groups working in the same style: Metel and GCMAN. The news comes a year after Kaspersky Lab warned that cyber-criminals would start to adopt the tools and tactics of nation-state backed APTs in order to rob banks and attack financial organisations. Carbanak 2.0 marks the re-emergence of the Carbanak advanced persistent threat (APT), with the same tools and techniques but a...

On Friday night, South Wales Fire and Rescue Service was told about an information security breach relating to employees' personal data. A 59-year-old woman from Bridgend has been arrested in connection with data protection offences. The fire service did not disclose how many people were affected, but said it was limited to its own employees. The matter has been reported to the Information Commissioner's Office and the fire service said it was working with employees...

The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) discovered that the personal identification information and private health information of more than 91,000 Apple Health (Medicaid) clients was handled improperly by an individual HCA employee. HCA today is sending a notification letter to clients affected by the breach. The information includes clients’ Social Security numbers, dates of birth, Apple Health client ID numbers, and private health information. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Office of Inadequate Security

President Obama is creating the position of federal chief information security officer as part of a multifaceted initiative aimed at strengthening the nation's IT security. Related steps include the formation of a public-private Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, as well as a proposal to boost government cybersecurity spending next fiscal year by 35 percent to $19 billion. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Data Breach Today