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Independent: Google and other search engine companies are “ill-placed” to make judgements on privacy issues, according to the Internet Services Providers’ Association (Ispa), which is calling for decisions to rest in the hands of the Information Commissioner. Nicholas Lansman, secretary general of the association, which represents more than 200 Internet companies, told The Independent: “The Right to be Forgotten judgement puts online companies into the difficult position of having to balance the right to privacy of individuals...

Nextgov: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is expected to announce on Tuesday a deal with DEF CON to hold the final round of DARPA’s two-year Cyber Grand Challenge at the organization’s 2016 Las Vegas conference.  The aim of the competition is to build a Watson-like machine that can detect and deflect cyberattacks without any help from humans. 

Infosecurity: In an ironic turn of events, an email spam campaign is targeting those who send letters the old-fashioned way, through rain, sleet, snow and gloom of night, via the US Postal Service. Zscaler has published an analysis of a botnet named Asprox, which forwards messages that are supposedly from USPS in order to get victims to click on a link. The link purports to be a shipping receipt, but is of course in reality a malicious...

Tweaktown: The "Pentagon Papers" whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg doesn't believe former NSA contractor Edward Snowden would be treated fairly if he faced trial after coming back to the United States. Snowden is currently living in Russia and has avoided extradition to the United States, where he would certainly face legal issues from the federal government.

Net Security: WatchGuard has announced that its UTM and NGFW appliances allow users to deploy, configure and manage both wired and wireless network security through a single device in a 'single pane of glass' view.  This enhanced wireless functionality - made possible by the release of WatchGuard's Fireware 11.9 operating system - eliminates the need for additional wireless network management solutions and gives IT professionals a unified Web interface for managing and monitoring their network...

Tweaktown: Enterprise security companies Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet have teamed up to create a cyber defense consortium tasked with threat intelligence data sharing in the technology industry. The consortium will also offer coordination of incident response and better prevention of cyberattacks using advanced malware.

Arstechnica: Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde was arrested in Southern Sweden on Saturday, Reuters reported. Sunde was convicted of aiding copyright infringement in 2009 and was sentenced to a year in prison, plus a fine. That year of jail time was reduced to eight months, but in 2012 Sunde failed to appear at the Swedish prison where he was to be incarcerated, and he has been wanted by Interpol ever since.

The Register: Heartbleed is still offering rich pickings for security researchers, and presumably hackers, with Luis Grangeia of Sysvalue demonstrating attacks against wireless (and some wired) networking infrastructure using libraries linked to vulnerable OpenSSL versions The Lisbon-based researcher has demonstrated that this affects wireless infrastructure, some Android devices, Radius servers, and possibly reaching as far as iOS, OS X, and VoIP phones.

CSO: Australia continues to punch well above its weight when it comes to falling victim to ransomware, according to recently released figures from Trend Micro. Residents of Australia, with its population of just 23 million, accounted for 5 percent of ransomware incidents recorded in Trend's 1Q 2014 Security Roundup, with the notorious CryptoLocker leading the charge and relative newcomer BitCrypt posting a strong showing in its wake.

Daily Mail: Australian parents are in the dark about what their children are getting up to online, a survey suggests. One-third of 200 children interviewed by security company Symantec said they had been bullied or experienced cybercrime, yet half of them hid it from their parents.