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The US government has agreed to pay $50m (£31m) after it was said to have pirated "thousands" of copies of military software

Vulnerability being used in the wild in combination with exploit of patched Adobe Reader vulnerability.

A government committee in Lebanon claimed on Thursday that Israel was spying in the country and that its devices had infiltrated UNIFIL and army networks, reports The Daily Star.

The pressures coming to bear on the Guardian, observers say, are testing the limits of press freedoms in one of the world’s most open societies. Although Britain is famously home to a fierce pack of news media outlets — including the tabloid hounds of old Fleet Street — it also has no enshrined constitutional right to free speech.  

UW Medicine officials are alerting roughly 90,000 patients that their personal data was compromised in an October security breach.  

Security researchers at TrenMicro have identified a new type of malware that update their configuration in a very interesting way. This means that compromised machines are configured to download JPEG files that contain encrypted configuration files/binaries without victim’s knowledge.  

Nexus phones carry SMS crash bug vuln

CPU-and-bandwidth-munching Bitcoin miners buried in freeware  

A new unclassified document written by the US Army describes the threat and methods employed by the Syrian Electronic Army in its propagandist war against supporters of the rebels in Syria's civil war. Obtained by an internet journalist, it has been posted on ScribD.  

A Bitcoin newcomer reportedly received over 22 Bitcoin after holding up a sign with a Bitcoin QR code.