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Toshiba is working on what it calls an unbreakable encryption method. More specifically: It will be a quantum-cryptography system that will use photons—light particles—delivered via a custom-made fiber-optic cable not connected to the internet. View full story

A trinity of network failures led to the grounding of all aircraft in New Zealand yesterday. Just four minutes of outage ended up keeping planes on the ground for two hours, affecting 200 flights on 23 June. View full story

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) posted the following to its Security account on Tuesday: Keeping links to malware off of our platform is a core function of our Security team. To really stick it to the fraudsters, we go beyond one-off, 'whack-a-mole' removals to systematically combat malicious activity and do away with whole clusters of bad links at a time. View full story

The NSA and GCHQ are mounting targeted attacks designed to undermine popular security tools using "dubious" secret warrants, according to documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Intercept reported on the campaign, claiming that the two intelligence agencies have been working to reverse engineer and circumvent popular anti-virus and privacy software from a number of vendors, including Kaspersky. View full story

There isn't a lot of Mac malware. Most cybercrooks, we have to assume, are making so much money from infected Windows computers that they haven't had to worry about supporting other platforms, such as OS X. View full story

HP security research bod Dustin Childs says the company couldn't get Microsoft to patch an IE exploit, so it's gone public. Childs says the Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) hole affects millions of 32bit systems and should have been patched. View full story

The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) has announced a $500,000 investment in three projects designed to improve the open source technology's security and services. The project will fund the ReproducibleBuilds, Fuzzing Project and False­Positive­Free Testing initiatives. View full story

Government “identity assurance” programme Verify contains "severe privacy and security problems" including a major architecture flaw that could lead to "mass surveillance" – according to an academic paper. View full story

Using encryption to protect mobile traffic and especially the exchange of credentials between the user and company servers should be a must in this day and age. Unfortunately, there are companies that have yet to implement HTTPS encryption during logins for their mobile apps, and others that have made mistakes in implementing it, thus exposing their users to Man-in-the-Middle attacks.  View full story

A Polish airline grounded planes this weekend after it discovered a hack on its systems, the firm suggested that the methods used could be applied to any company in its industry. View full story