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Share This - Our latest Consumer Sharing Trends Report (Q4/2013) came out today and reveals that Pinterest has outpaced email for the first time to become the third most popular sharing channel overall. In a sign of how quickly social media has changed the digital landscape, consumers are now “pinning” things like articles, photos and recipes to share with their friends more often than emailing links. With 58 percent growth in 2013, Pinterest also leads as...

Sophos Naked Security - In May 2013, retailer Nordstrom said that yes, it was sniffing customers' WiFi to track their movement through 17 US stores. Nordstrom was collecting anonymised, aggregate information, a spokeswoman said at the time, and wasn't identifying personal information tied to a phone's owner. Therefore, Nordstrom said, it wasn't using the WiFi data to market specific products at specific individuals.

Infosecurity - Popular Cisco Wi-Fi routers for small and medium-sized businesses are in the cross-hairs thanks to a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain root-level access to an affected device – and from there intercept information from devices that attach to it. Meanwhile, Cisco has released patches for three vulnerabilities in its Secure Access Control System (ACS), including two serious flaws that could enable a remote attacker to take complete control of an affected...

Computerworld - Taking another page from social rival Twitter, Facebook is launching a new Trending feature that will show users the most popular topics being discussed on the social network. The feature, which begins rolling out to users today, will list a series of topics that are spiking in popularity on Facebook. The list will appear in the top right of users' news feeds. Trending is yet another move in Facebook's plan to supplant Twitter as the social network people...

Washington Post - Amazon's cloud computing service plays host to some of the most prolific malware distributors on the Internet, security researchers have discovered. Of the 10 sites that pump out malware most frequently, four are hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) — including the number one site, download-instantly.com, according to a threat report published Wednesday by the IT security firm Solutionary. The report comes a week after we learned that hackers allegedly used Amazon's cloud hosting solution as a platform...

Softpedia - Hackers of TeamBerserk claim to have breached the systems of a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Intelligence Fusion Center. They’ve leaked several documents totaling around 60 Mb. The archive file leaked by the hackers contains two folders: Classified and Unclassified. The “Classified” folder contains some subfolders, but they’re empty. The “Unclassified” folder holds “unclassified/for official use only” and Law Enforcement Sensitive (U/LES) reports. Some other documents have also been leaked, including ones that,...

Trend Micro - The presence of a security product is normally seen as a deterrent or challenge for cybercriminals. However, that is not the case with this banking Trojan, specifically, a BANLOAD (also known as BANKER or BANBRA) variant. This malware actually limits its range of victims to online banking clients of Banco do Brasil. It does so by checking for the presence of a specific security product before it executes its malicious routines.

Softpedia - A massive global cyberattack that involved over 750,000 malicious emails is said to have relied on more than 100,000 consumer electronic devices, including at least one smart refrigerator. We keep hearing about the security risks associated with the fact that more and more household appliances are connected to the Internet. Researchers from security-as-a-service provider Proofpoint have analyzed what can be called an Internet of Things cyberattack.

BBC - IBM, the global computing giant, has said it is investing more than $1.2bn (£735m) expanding its data centres and cloud storage business. It plans to build 15 new centres around the world, bringing the total number up to 40 during 2014. IBM bought cloud services company SoftLayer for $2bn last year, and this investment will double the subsidiary's storage capacity, the company said.

E-Week - US-CERT warns of an increase in distributed denial-of-service attacks that leverage Network Timing Protocol.