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Britain to Rush through Emergency Surveillance Law

It looks like Labour will accept the bill on the basis that it will do nothing else than restore what was the law before the EU Court of Justice decided a few months ago that the directive on privacy retention is an invasion of privacy. In response, the opposition demanded that ministers launch a review of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which is deemed being the source of excessive surveillance by the security agencies.

The Chinese Hacked US Federal Personnel Agency

The United States claimed that Chinese hackers broke into the networks of the US office of personnel management in order to access the files of all federal employees who had applied for top-secret security clearances. According to senior US officials, the Chinese obtained access to the agency’s databases four months ago before being detected and blocked. However, nothing is said about the damage done.

Online Black Market Creator Failed to Dismiss Federal Indictment

Ross Ulbricht, the individual accused of creating the infamous Silk Road, portal has just lost his bid to dismiss a federal indictment that accused him of conspiring to deal illegal drugs and launder money.

Egyptian Blogger Sentenced to 15 Years

Alaa Abd El Fattah, a prominent blogger, known as a key figure in the local 2011 uprising, has recently been sentenced to 15 years in jail for arranging a demonstration on the Internet. The blogger had been arrested by each of Egypt’s 5 leaders since Mubarak. Abd El Fattah was one of the activists who are most associated with the 2011 uprising in Egypt, which briefly ended 60 years of autocratic rule. Now the blogger was sentenced to 15 years in jail for allegedly arranging a protest online.

Digital News in UK Are Read on Mobiles

UK citizens seem to be abandoning PCs as their main method to access news, switching to updates on various mobile devices. According to the research carried out by Oxford University’s Reuters Institute, the proportion of readers who mostly rely on a desktop PC to get news on the Internet has fallen by 23 percentage points over the year and totaled to 57%.

Cybercrime Damages Estimated

The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has published the cost for cybercrime all over the world. Of course, the numbers were released in billions, because the outfit set their own overestimated value on the costs of “damage to business from the IP theft”. In result, the final cost of hacking totaled to $445 bln. In the meanwhile, a bit more reasonable figure is the estimated $160 bln loss to individuals from hacking.

Tweetdeck Vulnerability Was Caused by Emoji Heart

The most popular microblog has finally relaunched its application for social media professionals after it was shut down due to discovery of a vulnerability leaving users open to attack. A few days ago, one of the Twitter users trying to code an emoji heart inadvertently revealed a vulnerability which resulted in Twitter being forced to shut down its Tweetdeck app. Now Tweetdeck has been reopened after verifying its security fix, but a number of users keep reporting problems because of caching of the web-based client.

US Accused Russian Hacker of $100m Fraud

Evgeniy Bogachev, a Russian computer hacker, was accused a few days ago of organizing a worldwide conspiracy which targeted hundreds of thousands of PCs with malware, thus enabling him and his gang to steal over $100 million from US business and banks.

Bitcoin Faced an Existential Threat

A group of Bitcoin miners briefly gained enough processing power to theoretically destroy the cryptocurrency. For a few hours last week, mining pool Ghash.io obtained control over 51% of all the processing power that keep Bitcoin secure. The security experts explain that if the pool had abused that power, it could have irreversibly take money from other users by rewriting the register of who owns which coins.

UK Commissioner Waiting for Complaints on Google

The UK Commissioner’s Office claimed that they expect to receive complaints from people requesting to remove their name from Google’s search results. Google found itself between the hammer and the anvil, as while the recent court ruling demanded that it remove names from the searches, these moves are criticized by those who claim the company is removing links that are still relevant.

Google Maps Made Restaurant Bankrupt

A Washington DC restaurant owner has launched a lawsuit against the tech giant for an incorrect Google Maps listing which lead to a decline in customers and forced the administration to lay off staff and finally shut down.

Kyrgyzstan Runs Bitcoin Experiment

The first and only Bitcoin ATM in Central Asia was installed in small cafe in Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek. The ATM converts dollars into Bitcoins, which are increasingly used in online transactions.

Children Are into “Free” Mobile Games

Tech giants keep struggling to attract children and teens (and sometimes adults as well) who are using their own or parents’ tablets and smartphones to log on to “free” games. Adults are afraid that this shift could lead to large bills for in-app purchases made by children while playing the games. Moreover, this trend also threatens to allow access to adult social media websites.

Norway Adopted Anti-Piracy Law 1 Year Ago – No Results

Norway has been pressured to address digital pirates for a while now, and one year ago the government finally introduced a new law. However, thus far, no file-sharer has ever been inquired about nor has a single website blocking request been filed.

Afghanistan Would Not Ban Facebook

The Afghan government would not be blocking Facebook during an ongoing deadlock over the election. This decision was made despite fears expressed by some that social media postings have caused ethnic hatred. In the country, the dispute between two candidates (Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah) over alleged fraud in the recent presidential election has triggered online exchanges between rival supporters. The security agencies are afraid that those may spill over into violence.

Users Worry about Google’s Outage

The largest search engine in the world suffered an intermittent outage Friday morning, which made users unable to conduct searches or access services via the main Google website. At 10.30am on Friday morning, Google went offline with a “500” error, affecting desktop browsers.

Hackers Targeted Governments and Drug Dealers

A weird highly-sophisticated hacker crew was stealing information from drug dealers and government entities. The group, dubbed “MiniDuke” after the malware it uses, was initially believed to have been backed by a nation state, as it targeted a range of government agencies and research institutes across the world.

Google Trying to Satisfy Everyone over Right to Be Forgotten Issue

The tech giant has agreed to change the way it implements the new EU “right to be forgotten” measure. The reason was tones of critics for being over-zealous in the approach to blocking results in name-based searches.

World ISPs Sued UK Surveillance Agency

ISPs all over world lodged formal complaints against the British government’s monitoring service, GCHQ, accusing it of using malicious software to hack their networks. The complaints came from 7 companies based in 6 countries: Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, the UK, the US and even Zimbabwe. This move will add to international pressure on the government after Snowden’s leaks concerning mass surveillance of the worldwide web by British and American intelligence agencies.

UK Changed Attitude to Pirates

It seems that the advisors of UK Prime Minister are already unhappy with forcing Internet service providers to send their customers notifications when they pirate films, music and TV shows.

Online Filters Block 20% of Popular Sites

About 20% of the most popular websites on the Internet are being blocked by the porn filters employed on local broadband and mobile networks. For example, it was noticed that a Porsche car dealership, a couple of feminist websites, a blog on the Syrian War and a political website suffered from the filters recently installed in the United Kingdom.

California Started Accepting Bitcoin

A Californian law has finally removed a ban on using currencies other than the USD. The new legislation of the state will encourage the growing use of alternative payment currencies, including Bitcoin.