Top 10 Stories

The Actuary - Cyber crime and terror risks have been severely underrated as major threats affecting businesses in today’s ‘hyper-connected world’, according to an Aon survey of insurance captive directors.   

New York Times - As a young lawmaker defining himself as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama visited a center for scholars in August 2007 to give a speech on terrorism. He described a surveillance state run amok and vowed to rein it in.   

PC Pro - Yahoo chief operating officer Henrique de Castro, the high-profile recruit CEO Marissa Mayer poached from Google shortly after she took the helm, will leave today after about a year on the job.  

Fierce CIO - A recent study by GigaOM Research finds that the cloud computing market is on pace to grow by 126 percent in 2014, Business 2 Community has reported. That includes a growth in the software-as-a-services market of 119 percent, and growth in the infrastructure-as-a-service market of 122 percent.  

BBC - All new web addresses registered in the UK will be screened for terms that signal or encourage serious sexual offences.  

Infosecurity - The tech support scam has been around for ages: a Microsoft/Windows “support technician” will initiate a cold call to potential victims or lure them in via online advertising, before going on to ask for payment to fix very dire-sounding, non-existent PC problems. Now, that scam is evolving to the mobile world.  

SC Magazine - Wickr – a free iPhone and Android mobile app that allows users to send self-destructing text, audio, picture, and video messages – has introduced a vulnerability rewards program that could earn bug bounty hunters up to $100,000.  

Encrypted-Mobile - If you use any encryption software on your iPhone and you payed for that, than you payed for illusion not for security. Thanks to Snowden and security researcher Jacob Appelbaum now all the World know the magic word DROPOUTJEEP and the meaning of it.  

Security Week - Microsoft said on Wednesday that it would help customers as they migrate to newer versions of the Windows operating system by extending support to the platform’s antimalware features.    

Krebs on Security - Today’s post includes new information about the malware apparently used in the attack, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.