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Reuters:- Target Corp's security software detected potentially malicious activity during last year's massive data breach, but its staff decided not to take immediate action, the No. 3. U.S. retailer said on Thursday. "With the benefit of hindsight, we are investigating whether if different judgments had been made the outcome may have been different," company spokeswoman Molly Snyder said in a statement.  

Computerworld - Courts have generally tended to dismiss consumer class-action lawsuits filed against companies that suffer data breaches if victims can't show that the the breach directly caused a financial hit. A federal court in Florida broke the mold by approving a $3 million settlement for victims of a data breach in which personal health information was exposed when multiple laptops containing the unencrypted data were stolen.  

Softpedia: The verified Twitter account of Julie Bishop, the Australian minister for foreign affairs, has been hacked. The attacker posted some tweets in an effort to lure Bishop’s followers to a phishing site. The official’s account was hijacked on Monday morning (Australia time). The hacker posted the following messages on the compromised feed: “I’m laughing so much right now at this,” “LOL u got 2 read this, its awesome,” “I am lol’n so hard right now...

Threatpost: The term metadata and the implications of its collection and analysis have been one of the key points in the debate surrounding the NSA’s broad surveillance programs over the last year. Legislators, policy makers and others continue to argue about whether metadata can actually reveal anything about the people behind the phone numbers, but researchers who have studied a new data set say there should be no doubt: metadata is sensitive information.  

Airrang: Financial regulators will conduct a second special investigation on the three major credit card companies swept up in Korea's largest-ever data leak. This follows confirmation of an additional breach late last week. The officials will look into how a secondary leak at KB Kookmin Card, NH Nonghyup Card and Lotte Card was possible.  

Sectechno: Security researchers at TrendMicro alerting of new cyber attack that is using Rockstar Game (Grand Theft Auto V).  the game is still running on  special consoles while many users are expecting to have a new version that can used on standard Computers. Here cybercriminals  have prepared a spam message claims to provide the required version. The spam message invites user to be as a beta tester and include a link to phishing website. The attack...

Softpedia: The Syrian Electronic Army claims to have breached the systems of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM). The attack appears to be in response to the US’s intention to use cyber warfare against Syria. “Operation targeting CENTCOM are now in motion due to Obama's decision to attack Syria with electronic warfare,” the hackers wrote on Twitter.  

Sheboyganpress: Tim Boldt lives across the street from a Target store in Romeoville, Ill., a town 45 minutes outside Chicago. He had been a faithful shopper there for 10 years, stopping in at least twice a week. Now, like many of those who heard in December that 40 million of Target’s customer accounts had been hacked, he has pulled back.  

Guardian: Several Nato websites have been hit by cyber attacks, but they have had no impact on the military alliance’s operations, a spokeswoman said. The attacks, which affected Nato’s main website, came amid rising tensions over Russian forces’ occupation of Ukraine’s Crimea region where a referendum is to be held on Sunday.  

The Hacker News: Twitter is taking users' privacy and security very seriously and in an effort to prevent Government snooping, the company has secured your Twitter emails with with TLS (Transport Layer Security). Twitter emails were previously using a plain text communication protocol, that now has been upgraded to an encrypted (TLS or SSL) connection using STARTTLS.