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PC world: Evernote was resuming operations early Wednesday following a denial of service attack. The archiving software and services company said its online services had been unavailable and that users may experience problems accessing their accounts.

Arstechnica: It's not shadowy spies or engineers from the National Security Agency secretly reading the hundreds of tips about government fraud that the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has received in less than a month.

The Guardian: Russian authorities say two people from Moscow have confessed to a "ransomware" attack on a number of Apple device owners, mainly in Australia, during May.

Reuters: With hackers stealing tens of millions of customer details in recent months, firms across the globe are ratcheting up IT security and nervously wondering which of them is next.

ZDNet: US security technology group Crowdstrike has identified another cyber espionage group with links to the Chinese military, which has been systematically attacking US and European government partners in the space and satellite industry, according to the company.

Techdirt: On Friday, we reported the surprising fact that Vodafone had not just followed the latest trend in issuing a transparency report, but actually flat out admitted that many governments had direct access to its phone lines, which allowed those governments to listen in on calls without a warrant. That level of transparency is great, because all too often with the "transparency" reports we've seen from some companies, they seem more focused on hiding what's...

The Verge: Netflix will stop sending messages to its subscribers blaming internet providers for poor streaming speeds — though it may start sending them again in the future. In a blog post accompanying its monthly speed reports, released today, Netflix says that it will be ending the "small-scale test" of these messages, one of which gained wide attention last week for claiming that Verizon's network was congested. Verizon issued a cease and desist against the...

Tweaktown: Internet-enabled smart TVs can be compromised quickly and effectively by hackers, using the "red button attack" aimed at compromising users by sending spam and launching attacks.   Hackers also have had success by hijacking built-in audio and video into smart TVs, the researchers warn. Any smart TV that is utilizes the hybrid broad-cast broadband (HbbTV) standard is vulnerable to the exploit - which is the majority of TVs in Europe, and about to become...

Arstechnica: Two 14-year-old Canadians hacked a Bank of Montreal ATM after finding an operators manual online. The manual showed how to gain administrative control of the device, according to a media report published over the weekend.

The Register: Criminals appear to be pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars with upgraded Cryptowall ransomware that has encrypted scores of hard drives across Britain, America and Australia demanding victims pay hefty Bitcoin ransoms.