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Dark Reading - Nearly 30 security vulnerabilities so far have been found in products using a popular ICS/SCADA communications protocol, prompting about half of the affected vendors to patch their products and at least one vendor to pull its affected software off the market and urge its customers to instead install another of its products.  

Krebs on Security - A security breach at a Web portal for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has exposed private documents and some financial information belonging to at least 114 organizations that bid on a contract at the agency last year.  

BBC - Former footballer Stan Collymore has accused Twitter of not doing enough to combat abusive messages after he was targeted by internet trolls. The broadcaster has retweeted some of the offensive messages he has received since he suggested Liverpool striker Luis Suarez dived to earn a penalty in Saturday's match against Aston Villa.  

BGR.com - As amazing as it might seem, the Department of Homeland Security really has nothing better to do than bust alleged pirates at movie theaters. Business Insider has now received confirmation from AMC that it brought in law enforcement officials to remove a man who wore his Google Glass headset into a movie theater over the weekend. AMC says that its employees were concerned that the man was using Glass to record the movie he was watching so that he...

The Verge - The federal health insurance marketplace at Healthcare.gov still has major security issues according to some experts, including a flaw that allows user records to show up in Google results. At least 70,000 records with personal identifying information including first and last names, addresses, and user names are accessible by using an advanced Google search and then tweaking the resulting URLs, according to David Kennedy, founder of the security firm TrustedSec. Kennedy notes that...

FTC - Twelve U.S. businesses have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they falsely claimed they were abiding by an international privacy framework known as the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor that enables U.S. companies to transfer consumer data from the European Union to the United States in compliance with EU law. The companies settling with the FTC represent a cross-section of industries, including retail, professional sports, laboratory science, data broker, debt collection, and information security....

IT News - An Internet Explorer exploit used in high-profile watering hole attacks has been added to the popular Nuclear Pack hacking toolkit. The exploit affects unpatched versions of Internet Explorer and was used in November to infect users interested in national and international security policy via an unnamed US policy website.    

SC Magazine - A Government plan to collect the health data on every person in England on a single database – and then share the information among health professionals - is being threatened by data privacy fears and the likelihood that it will break the upcoming new European-wide data protection law.   The NHS is leafleting all 22 million households in England this month to explain that from April, under the ‘care.data' programme, electronic patient records...

Splashdata - The 2013 list of worst passwords, influenced by postings from the Adobe breach, demonstrates the importance of not basing passwords on the application or website being accessed

New York TImes - New technology has led to an onslaught of Internet-inspired fraud tactics that try to use telephone calls to dupe millions of people or to overwhelm switchboards for essential public services, causing deep concern among law enforcement and other groups.