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Softpedia - Authorities have arrested two people of Monterrey, Mexico, while trying to enter the United States with close to 100 payment cards cloned with data stolen in the recent Target breach.  

Register - Company confesses to cockup after Reddit thread surfaces

News Republic - Microsoft seems to be on the receiving end of the wrath of the Syrian Electronic Army recently, where their news Twitter accounts fell victim to. Apart from that, Microsoft's Office Blog has been caught out by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) - and although the blog was defaced, it was quickly recovered by Microsoft.

Techworld - Researcher documents vulnerabilities

Register - This could get a lot worse before it gets better

Softpedia - Security researchers from Dell SonicWall have identified an interesting spam bot that’s currently being distributed in the wild with the aid of compromised WordPress websites.

CNet - After PayPal President David Marcus tweeted "We're believers in BTC," eBay's UK branch says it will let people sell digital currencies in its classified ads section starting on February 10.

Threatpost - The EFF is well-known for its advocacy of privacy, digital and human rights and security and its staffers often write extensively about abuses, especially in countries such as Syria, Iran, Vietnam, China and Egypt. In late December, a pair of EFF employees received an email purporting to be from someone at Oxfam, the global anti-poverty and human rights organization.

Threatpost -A vulnerability in the Android mobile operating system could allow hackers to write applications that would bypass a secure virtual private network connection and redirect traffic in clear text to an attacker.

Forbes - One of the bigger wallets on the Bitcoin blockchain is going to be emptied in the near future. Back in October, when the feds took down the online drug bazaar Silk Road, they seized the nearly 30,000 bitcoins in its coffers. On Thursday, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office, which is prosecuting the Silk Road case, announced that a judge had signed off on a forfeiture order for those coins. That means they’re now free to get rid of the 29,655...