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Inquisit: Joining the growing protests at the 2014 World Cup, Anonymous defaced several Brazilian government websites today and hacked into the Brazilian Foreign Ministry’s server, compromising emails and attachments.

Tweaktown: The worldwide security software revenue increased 4.9 percent up to $19.9 billion in 2013, Considering the large volume of cyberattacks, just 4.9 percent growth is rather slow, but two of the top five major security vendors saw a decline in growth.

Reuters: P.F. Chang's China Bistro is investigating claims of a data breach involving credit and debit card data stolen from restaurant locations in the United States, the Asian-themed casual dining restaurant chain said on Tuesday.

Search Security: Microsoft today addressed 66 total vulnerabilities across seven bulletins – 59 in Internet Explorer alone – in a mammoth June 2014 Patch Tuesday release, including a fix for an Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability that the company was made aware of more than seven months ago.

Arstechnica: Given the amount of time malicious hackers spend bypassing other people's security, you might think that they pay close attention to locking down their own digital fortresses. It turns out that many of them don't, according to a recent blog post documenting some of their sloppiest password hygiene.

Intego:This article has been updated to reflect that those arrested in Moscow may not be connected with the “Oleg Pliss” attack. Russian authorities appear to have scored a victory against cybercrime, extracting a confession from a Moscow duo in connection with a mysterious “ransomware”-style attack that hit owners of iPhones, iPads and Macs.

Tweaktown: Former vice president Al Gore said former NSA contractor Edward Snowden did "an important service" when he publicly disclosed mass spying and surveillance. It's the most vocal support Snowden has received from a U.S. lawmaker, and shows there is still a fierce debate regarding his loyalties.

Arstechnica: It's been a year since Edward Snowden's leak of National Security Agency documents triggered a firestorm around cloud service providers' privacy protections (or lack thereof).   Since last summer, the giants of the Internet have pledged to do more to encrypt their Internet traffic—and in some cases, their internal network traffic—to protect it from both government surveillance and other prying eyes. But an Ars investigation reveals that data continues to leak.

The Register: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has kept mum on whether it will dump the troubled TrueCrypt platform used to encrypt data data imported and exported to its Simple Storage Service (S3).

Reuters: IBM overtook Japan's Trend Micro Inc to become the world's No. 3 provider of security software last year, after acquiring cybersecurity firm Trusteer, according to market share data released on Tuesday by Gartner.