British government will block 'web snooping' bill
Data Communications Bill British Home office, which proposed store details of every citizen online activity will be blocked as long the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg remains in charge, he said this week. The bill proposes that the browsing history of every Briton, emails, interactions with social media and phone calls should be recorded and stored for a year, along with other details such as location the device connected to the Internet, the call duration and the names of sender and recipient. The British minister wants the bill to be in place by next year, but a number of members have already objected to some of its provisions, which means that the initial proposals are now reformulated.
Associated Press Twitter hack causes Dow plunge
US stock market experienced a sharp drop Tuesday afternoon, after the official report from the Associated Press Twitter reported that President Obama had been injured in a bomb attack against the white House. The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced a triple digit advance Tuesday morning, but it was completely cleared when panicked and automatic trading algorithms sold all their stocks traders. The Associated Press has suspended all of its Twitter accounts when he realized what had happened and launched an account on Security.
Yet another Java flaw being widely exploited
Java Oracle has been in the news a lot recently, and it's not something that looks like this will change soon. Security researchers have warned that Java Remote Code that was recently patched is now widely exploited by cyber criminals who attempt to infect computers worldwide with scareware. The vulnerability has been one of many to have apparently been fixed in the update last week. Despite being given a rather low score under the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System), cyber criminals have rushed to take advantage of those who have not already applied the latest update - if you are worried about your computer, the advice is to update Java as soon as possible.
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