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The Register: Australia and the United States will forge tighter bonds in information security defence and incident response on the back of a White House meeting between the nation's leaders. The announcement contained scant detail on the arrangement and came as Prime Minister Tony Abbott and President Barack Obama agreed to new defence deals that paved the way for more US troops and navy ships to be stationed in Australia.

Net Security: While speculation continues around the fate of popular disk encryption software TrueCrypt, Sophos conducted a survey of over 100 IT professionals regarding their use of encryption. including TrueCrypt.

CSO: The Bank of England has created a cyber intelligence network and testing framework to help identify where the banking sector is most vulnerable to cyber attacks.

Arstechnica: Automatically updating Android apps could get riskier thanks to a change Google developers have made to the way the OS discloses new app permissions, such as the ability to send potentially costly text messages or track a user's precise geographic location.

Cnet: Feedly, a news aggregation app, is under attack. The company reported Wednesday that it's facing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched by "criminals," who the company claims are "trying to extort...money to make it stop."

Arstechnica: Twitter on Wednesday was briefly overrun by a powerful computer worm that caused tens of thousands of users to tweet a message that contained self-propagating code exploiting a bug in the TweetDeck app.

The Register: Attacking enterprises just got easier with the development of an idiot-friendly tool that spits out booby-trapped PDFs with a few clicks.

PC World: A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that law enforcement officials need to have a warrant to access phone location data from cellular carriers.

Softpedia: A more complex version of the Svpeng Trojan for Android mobile devices has been identified recently and it appears to have been equipped with ransomware capabilities.

The Register: It's not the next Daniel Suarez plot; Israeli academics have developed software they say can use your mobile phone to detect electrical impulses, and foist malware to computers physically disconnected from any internet facing network.