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The Hacker News: Snapchat, the photo sharing app is the majority choice for variety of users. Recently, the company has faced data breach and Captcha bypass vulnerability, and just yesterday a new denial-of-service attack has been revealed which can crash an iPhone.   Jamie Sanchez, a security researcher has found the app vulnerable, which can enable a hacker to launch a denial-of-service attacks, resulting prompt the user to reset the mobile device.    

Security Affairs: Aviv Raff, CTO at Seculert, confirmed that the attackers have penetrated into the network of Israeli Defense accessing to 15 computers. Israeli Defense is another illustrious victim of spear phishing attack, just on Friday Microsoft suffered a similar attack and attackers breached the email accounts of its staff accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries.  

The Hacker News: he Kit costs less than $20, but is far capable to give away the entire control of your car to an attacker from windows and headlights to its steering and brakes.   The device uses the Controller Area Network (CAN) ports that are built into cars for computer-system checks, and draws power from the car’s electrical system. Injecting a malicious code to CAN ports allows an attacker to send wireless commands remotely from a...

Finextra: The Target data breach has so far cost US banks over $172 million in re-issued plastic cards, according to figures from the Consumer Bankers' Association.   The cost to replace each card comes to an average of $10.00, with a total of 17.2 million cards substituted so far by CBA members. According to data collected from CBA member banks, the average cost to replace a credit or debit card includes: the card itself, informing...

Sophos - Sophos announced today that it has acquired Cyberoam Technologies, a leading global provider of network security products.  

Sinefa - The amount of encrypted traffic across networks is growing in size but also in terms of percentage of total traffic.  

BBC Tech: Don't have the right software to get your job done efficiently? Then why not write your own? It's a solution that is not as impractical as it may seem, and it's one that an increasing number of people with few or any programming skills are turning to.

The Guardian: The database that will store the entire nation's health records has a series of "backdoors" that will allow police and government bodies to access people's medical data. David Davis MP, a former shadow home secretary, told the Guardian he has established that police will be able to access the health records of patients when investigating serious crimes even if they had opted out of the new database, which will hold the entire population's medical...

CNet: The California Senate bill is designed to deter smartphone and tablet theft. State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, and other regulators will introduce a bill on Friday that would require smartphones and tablets sold in the state to have software that would completely disable the device if stolen, a concept often referred to as a "kill switch." If passed, the bill would go into effect for any device sold after...

Panda Security: Today a Swedish and well-visited news site, AftonBladet, was compromised as it was serving visitors a fake antivirus or rogueware. In fact, there was a malicious code targeting only Internet Explorer (IE) browser users. When the user visited Aftonbladet (using IE), he was redirected to another website which contained a fake warning from Microsoft Security Essentials. Once the user clicked on the warning message, nothing was fixed, but a malicious file downloaded. .