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This week another set of researchers crack quantum encryption, but if implemented incorrectly, is it telling us anything? Some more security acquisitions this week, big time raid in China and Taiwan, Snoop Dawg hooks up with Norton to fight cybercrime, another new DARPA project in reaction to wikileaks, study shows IT and security "pros" quick to spill beans, CEE publishes new security logging architecture, and Russian hacker-extortionist ring get's $30m in the bank and a sentence.

This week the security industry goes a little nutty based on a report saying malware was the reason for a plane crash in Spain two years ago, another report missing the point by focusing on juicy info and not the actual important bit, UK boasts new security of passports, which doesn’t seem all that impressive, California sets the bar again with SB-1166, Wikileaks pokes Pentagon in eye with CIA memo, and the future of PKI looks interesting, thanks to DNSSEC and Smart Grid.

This week we see some interesting issues and activities surfacing concerning Wikileaks, Disney get sued for spying on kids, Intel buys McAfee and HP buys Fortify, China get's upset with Pentagon's China threat report, GAO provides interesting report on public and private sector collaboration, or the lack thereof, IMS research say 5B devices are on the Internet now, and Virgin Media ISP tries to help customers being hacked.

This week news: RIM is having a bad day with Germany and India following the UAE's lead on banning Blackberry devices, Gen. Alexander sends strong message, old school printers spill beans, HITECH forces DHHS to issue changes to HIPAA, yet another bill on privacy and breach notification pops up in congress, 2010 breach report released, Zeus responsible for big bank hack and M86 provides an analysis, another bug in Facebook, and my take on the ATM hack at Black Hat, very kewl, but not exactly new.

This week's news comes a day earlier than normal to get ahead of the curve. In this newsletter we have a report on SCADA security - yes, be very concerned, BP employee falls victim to Defcon contest, GAO published report that says US Cyber Security program has got issues, Forrester creates a security model, Gen. Hayden's comments on cyberwar or not in keynote, a collection of mobile security news, F-Response offers super-cool Android forensics tool, and BT's Security consulting services places "stong performer" in Forrrester report. Not bad for just being half way through the week. (Note: I had a slight website malfunction and to restore from backup. Therefore, there may be some silly things with this feed for about a day or two.)

This week, of course, includes the WikiLeaks fiasco, Google gets FISMA certified as a cloud provider, China fires up a new cyber command capaiblity, Feds nail twoformer GM employees for stealing $40M in secrets, US regulators say "ok" to jailbreaking iPhone apps, Zeus leverages shortcut vuneraiblity, US media companies sued for spying on users (nice), Verizon published security report, goodread, nothing suprising.

A lot of interesting stuff this week. SCADA is in real trouble, Google has to answer to 38 US states, so far anyway, Dell servers have embedded malware in their motherboards, VxWorks has a security flaw that could impact hundreds of millions of commercial systems, Washintong Post pumps out details on America's intelligence ecosystem, the White House's NCS published status report, Some dork redirects Google searches for the Vatican, and a blog site taken off-line becasue of terrorists sharing info, at least that's what they say. Enjoy.

This week India bans China telecommunications kit, MI6 spy gets busted, Facebook provides Panic Button in the UK, NIST suggests webservices for forensics, UK reviews cyber legislation, provider offers cloud voice biometric for ecommerce, Kaspersky blocks the BBC, US Senators publish an open letter hoping to make friends with the Chinease, and did you know the chicken came before the egg?

This week: The US government's "Perfect Citizen" program, two very interesting GAO reports cocnerning Cloud Security and Cybersecurity, tax fruadsters in London busted making for record breaking fines, exposure of Thomas Ryan posing as “Robin Sage” in a social networking making a lot of high profile friends, YouTube's XSS hole sends kids to porn sites and says singer is dead, and finally a moble botnet said to be a "very minor threat", um, ok.

This week's news includes Boeing's acquisition of Argon, Facebook makes an attempt to offer privacy, according to Avast you don't have to surf porn to get attacked my malware, turns out that even Russian spies can't secure a laptop, and finally Microsoft reports a spike in a 0-day attack... can you say "exploit coded"?

Whitehouse and a national on-line ID, Russian spies in the US, FTC shuts down credit card fraud ring, child privacy concerns in the UK, FBI can't crack encryption; may be they should call the NSA, and Kraken resurfaces.

The original NewsBites page was one, really long page making it difficult to manage, it wasn't going to scale, and it was starting to take a long time to load for the increasing number of visitors. So, to ensure better scalability and usability, I'm going to publish future news as posts in the new "NewsBites category" to break the content up a little and make it easier to access.

The link in the menu at the top of the page has been changed to get you to this collection of news posts. However, for posterity sake, you can still get to the old news page here if you want to see any of the posts pre June 24, 2010.

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