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ZDNet - Have you ever wanted to quickly pull up some information on your iPhone only to be stopped in your tracks by the dreaded login screen? Yeah, me too. The iOS "login loop" creates lots of problems for me because instead of being logged in and quickly get what I need from an installed app, I suddenly find myself logged out. Then I have to:  

Computer World: The Australian Centre for Cyber Security (ACCS), which will bring together government cyber security staff with academic researchers, opened in Canberra today. The ACCS is located at the University of New South Wales’ (UNSW) Australian Capital Territory campus at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA).

EWeek: With a global deficit of 1 million information-security workers, companies need to find and train a staff of security specialists, as well as everyday workers, Cisco said. The current gap in the supply and demand of information-security workers will only widen over the next five years, as the expansion of the Internet of things will make the Web infrastructure even more complex and challenging to defend, Cisco managers stated on June 10. - See...

The Register: Web mongrels have hacked Dominos France and Belgium and then demanded €30,000 to prevent the public disclosure today of passwords and pizza preferences of 648,000 consumers. The raid forced the pizza palace to issue an apology on Twitter and suggest users change their passwords passwords which were blended with a unsavoury mix of MD5 hash and no added salt.

Tweaktown: The medical industry is under increasing threat of cyberattacks, with hackers compromising patient records that can be sold on the black market. Medical identity theft amounted to 43 percent of identity theft cases, according to research released earlier this year, as security experts warn of sophisticated attacks. Experiant urges the following practices: don't use the same password for multiple accounts; passwords should not be dictionary words; install antivirus security software; scan all drives for viruses or...

Arstechnica: For more than three years now, Microsoft has held to the line that it has loads of patents that are infringed by Google's Android operating system. "Licensing is the solution," wrote the company's head IP honcho in 2011, explaining Microsoft's decision to sue Barnes & Noble's Android-powered Nook reader. Microsoft has revealed a few of those patents since as it has unleashed litigation against Android device makers. But for the most part, they've remained...

Softpedia: Recently, a sample of the BlackEnergy Trojan has been uploaded on Google’s VirusTotal service, that offers free scanning of files with multiple antivirus engines. It is a modification of the previous threat, which, according to F-Secure, has distanced from the characteristics of a rootkit since hiding of files and registries is no longer carried out; however, the analyzed sample does include latent routines that hide processes.

Techcrunch: In January, there was worry in the bitcoin community regarding GHash, a mining pool. It controlled a rising share of the total bitcoin computational power used to mine the cryptocurrency — it’s share was creeping towards the 50% mark. Here’s a sample of what was written in January, when GHash was at a still-distant 42%: “ uncomfortably close to the 51% hash power mark, which some argue is the Achilles heel of bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies.”

The Register: Microsoft has forced Windows 7 users to apply an April update in order to receive June's patches for its Internet Explorer 11 browser. The demand does not affect users of earlier versions of its flagship browser or operating system. Microsoft did not provide reasons for the move but it appeared to have simplified its patching process since updates need only to be crafted for the latest incarnation of the latest browser version.

Krebs on Security: A Missouri firm that unsuccessfully sued its bank to recover $440,000 stolen in a 2010 cyberheist may now be on the hook to cover the financial institution’s legal fees, an appeals court has ruled. Legal experts say the decision is likely to discourage future victims from pursuing such cases. Choice Escrow and Land Title LLC sued Tupelo, Miss. basedBancorpSouth Inc., after hackers who had stolen the firm’s online banking ID and password used the...