US House of representatives passes CISPA
conscious privacy of American citizens may have thought they had seen the back of CISPA (Cyber intelligence protection Act and sharing), assuming that the bill had just disappeared after failing to pass the Congress last year. Apparently not, though, that this week has seen once again in the US House of Representatives by a vote of 287-127. There is no need to panic yet, however, because there is no guarantee that it will make much further in the legislative process, with senior advisers to President Barack Obama already confirming that they will push to veto it again the bill if it is significantly modified before it reaches his desk.
The co-founder of Pirate Bay faces hacking and fraud charges
The co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, was charged of stealing data from a number of Swedish companies after hacking into their servers. The list of charges against him offers serious fraud and attempted aggravated fraud, which includes a box him trying to illegally transfer money from a bank. He had already been sentenced to a prison sentence of one year in Sweden in 2012 for hacking into the servers of Logica, Swedish tax records manager, and for offenses related to copyright his work with The Pirate Bay . It faces some of the new charges alongside three other defendants, and should stand trial next month.
'Magic malware spying on thousands of businesses in the UK
online security company Seculert said that "magic malware" was stolen data of thousands of businesses in the UK for almost a year, while companies in the United States, Italy and Germany have also been the target of attacks. The malware is able to open backdoors, providing a HTML browser and stealing information from its host, which has raised concerns about data security. Perhaps more disturbing, however, the malware also has the ability to download and execute malicious files, prompting some to speculate that this may be the beginning of a much larger attack. Seculert also reported that the malware was still thought to be active and, more importantly, undergoing further development of its creators.
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