US intelligence chief defends surveillance programs

Computerworld Security: June 07, 2013
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US intelligence chief defends surveillance programs

The U.S. government said late Thursday that it is authorized to collect
intelligence information of non-U.S. persons located outside the country, in the
wake of news reports on the government's surveillance programs.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. FAQ: What the NSA phone snooping uproar is all about
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2. NSA, FBI mining data directly from major Internet companies, report says
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3. Richi Jennings: Doubts about Citadel botnet takedown: PR over-spun?
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4. Verizon, others have no choice but to hand over customer data
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5. Microsoft to tackle under-attack Office bug next week
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8609222/823929835/615110/0/

6. Hacker publishes alleged zero-day remote code execution exploit for older Plesk versions
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7. Bill aims to discourage nations from sponsoring cyberattacks
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8. 3 reasons why criminals exploit social networks (and tips to avoid getting scammed)
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9. ISC patches publicly disclosed BIND 9 denial-of-service flaw
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FAQ: What the NSA phone snooping uproar is all about

The Obama administration this week found itself in the middle of a raging
controversy after The Guardian broke a story about a massive phone data
collection effort by the National Security Agency (NSA). Here's the lowdown on
what's going on.
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NSA, FBI mining data directly from major Internet companies, report says

The FBI and the National Security Agency are tapping directly into servers at
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Skype and other major Internet companies to keep
track of the communications and interactions of known and suspected foreign
terrorists, the Washington Post reported.
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Richi Jennings: Doubts about Citadel botnet takedown: PR over-spun?


Operation b54 is GO! Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and international police forces
have disrupted more than a thousand botnets, created by the Citadel malware
toolkit. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers have their doubts.
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Verizon, others have no choice but to hand over customer data

Businesses that receive a court order for data similar to the one reportedly
handed to Verizon by an intelligence agency have no choice but to comply and to
take comfort in their immunity from lawsuits, an expert says.
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Microsoft to tackle under-attack Office bug next week

Microsoft today said it will ship just five security updates next week, the
fewest in any month so far this year, to patch 23 vulnerabilities in Internet
Explorer, Windows and Office.
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Hacker publishes alleged zero-day remote code execution exploit for older Plesk versions

A hacker released what he claims is a zero-day exploit for older versions of the
Parallels Plesk Panel, a popular Web hosting administration software package,
that could allow attackers to inject arbitrary PHP code and execute rogue
commands on Web servers.
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Bill aims to discourage nations from sponsoring cyberattacks

Three U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that would allow President
Barack Obama's administration to deny U.S. travel visas to cyberattackers
sponsored by foreign governments and to freeze their U.S.-based assets.
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3 reasons why criminals exploit social networks (and tips to avoid getting scammed)

The popularity and influence of social media continues to increase at lightning
speed, and recent events bear evidence to the impact -- both positive and
negative --this medium presents. As the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombing
unfolded, millions of people turned to social media for information, and
government officials and law enforcement used it to keep the public informed and
solicit their help.
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ISC patches publicly disclosed BIND 9 denial-of-service flaw

The Internet Systems Consortium, the organization that develops and maintains
the widely used BIND DNS software, has patched a publicly disclosed
vulnerability that can be used to remotely crash DNS servers running recent
releases of BIND 9.
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