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Hacking News: The server stores a database of names, addresses and social security numbers of UNCW employees, including part-time and temporary employees. It also contains the details of graduate students, adjunct instructors, and people who took a foreign language placement test at the university between 2002 and 2006. In a notice published on its website, the educational institution says that there’s no evidence that the information has been accessed by the cybercriminals, or that it has...

Guardian:  The US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that entire populations, rather than just individuals, now live under constant surveillance. “It's no longer based on the traditional practice of targeted taps based on some individual suspicion of wrongdoing,” he said. “It covers phone calls, emails, texts, search history, what you buy, who your friends are, where you go, who you love.”  

The Huffington Post UK: Nick Griffin has responded with good humour to his official Twitter account being taken over by a secretive hacking collective. The BNP chair posted: "Nick Griffin Trolled. Good night." after his Twitter account was hacked by a member of Anonymous last night, and his feed populated with controversial comments.  

Infosecurity: Infosecurity Hall of Fame inductee Dr Eric Cole, chief scientist at Secure Anchor, says the greatest risk to businesses is the threats they cannot see. Organisations are suffering security breaches in large numbers, but increasingly these breaches go undetected – leading to damage and data loss.  

Infosecurity: An expert panel argues that critical systems will inevitably become more connected. CISOs need to block threats before they happen. Operators of critical systems need to accept that they will be targeted by attackers, warned a panel of experts on critical infrastructure at Infosecurity Europe.  

IT News: The US White House has called on the country's Congress to pass legislation creating a national standard for telling consumers when their data has been hacked, one of six policy recommendations from a 90-day review of data and privacy. A patchwork of state laws requiring disclosure of data breaches, such as the massive hack at retailer Target last December, but the rules vary in terms of when and how much notice must be given....

BBC: The Heartbleed bug has turned cyber criminals from attackers into victims as researchers use it to grab material from chatrooms where they trade data.   Discovered in early April, Heartbleed lets attackers steal data from computers using vulnerable versions of some widely used security programs.  

Forbes: Last summer, someone hacked into a Houston couple’s baby monitor in order to yell at their daughter and tell her to “wake up, you little slut.” The Gilbert family was using an Internet-connected Foscam product that had known vulnerabilities that would make it easy for a knowledgeable intruder to get into it and control it. (Think Heartbleed.) Foscam released a firmware update that fixed the problem but people like the Gilberts who bought their camera through...

EFF: In a continuing campaign to uncover the government's secret interpretations of the surveillance laws underlying the National Security Agency (NSA)'s spying programs, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed another lawsuit against the Department of Justice, demanding that the government hand over key Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court) opinions and orders. "We can't have an informed debate about mass surveillance with access to only half the story," EFF Staff Attorney Mark Rumold said....

TUAW: A TUAW reader reports (with evidence) that if you use @me.com, @mac.com or @icloud.com services for your email, you could conceivably never see certain emails in your inbox. If you are getting mail from a "mail merge" service, like Constant Contact, Direct Mail, MaxBulk Mailer, MailChimpor Sailthru you might not see emails sent via those services or any similar product. It could conceivably be affecting services as well, but our tipster wasn't able to test every one of them. Note...