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Arstechnica: The Shanghai address of 208 Datong Road is where five members of Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army were "assigned" to deploy a widespread spear-phishing (or "spearfishing") campaign to allegedly hack into leading US companies, according to a new indictment from Monday.

Hacksurfer: Six months after one of the largest data breaches in history, customer behavior at Target is basically back to normal, according to a Bloomberg National Poll.

Softpedia: Facebook users, be on the lookout for a scam that’s making the rounds on the social network trying to get people to like a page. Unfortunately, this particular scam is causing a family extreme distress. 

Threatpost: The BREACH attack was the talk of Black Hat last summer. It was disclosed less than two months after the first Snowden leaks and helped renew focus on the security of online communication and the protocols guarding ecommerce and messaging.

Brian Krebs: The U.S. Justice Department today announced a series of actions against more than 100 people accused of purchasing and using “Blackshades,” a password-stealing Trojan horse program designed to infect computers throughout the world to spy on victims through their web cameras, steal files and account information, and log victims’ key strokes.

New Yorker: In the magazine earlier this month, I wrote about Greg Chung, a Chinese-American engineer at Boeing who worked on NASA’s space-shuttle program. In 2009, Chung became the first American to be convicted in a jury trial on charges of economic espionage, for passing unclassified technical documents to China. While reporting the story, I learned a great deal about an earlier investigation involving another Chinese-American engineer, named Chi Mak, who led F.B.I. agents to Greg Chung....

Security Affairs: Recorded Future published a report to show that members of Al-Qaeda are developing a series of new encryption software in response to NSA surveillance. The revelation based on the document leaked by Edward Snowden on the NSAsurveillance programs have had also a serious impact on the methods of terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda. The information provided to the terrorists precious information on the endless technological possibilities implemented by the NSA to spy on citizens all over the world. The same information is influencing the cyber crimeecosystem, in particular the...

Wired: Google search guru Matt Cutts says we should encrypt the entire internet. And he’s not alone. In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations of widespread internet eavesdropping by the NSA, the human rights organization Access is also campaigning for all websites to encrypt their connections to internet users, a pretty good way of thwarting interlopers. We’re still long way from ubiquitous encryption, but according to new research conducted by network equipment company Sandvine, we’re...

Shubh: I remember fondly two years ago, when 2-Factor-Authentication (2FA) became popular and well used across major web applications (Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others). I found, my naive sixteen year old self unable to come to terms for why the genius idea had not been thought of before. At the time, I felt that 2FA was that golden shield you could cover yourself with and defend against some of the most sophisticated phishing attacks calmly....

Forbes: It may raise hackles to think that U.S. intelligence officials might be monitoring your telephone and Internet communications, but for most of us it’s only the marketers who are really interested in our everyday online activities. And with many billions of dollars at stake, companies are increasingly turning to more sophisticated techniques to identify potential clients and deliver relevant advertising.