links of the day 06/05/2015 (a.m.)

• Reporter says Pentagon agreed to give up docs if he never submits another FOIA request - The Washington Post

• U.S. Surveillance in Place Since 9/11 Is Sharply Limited - NYTimes.com

• Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border - NYTimes.com

• U.N. Report Asserts Encryption as a Human Right in the Digital Age - The Intercept

• Hearing: Terrorism Gone Viral: The Attack in Garland, Texas and Beyond | The House Committee on Homeland Security

• Report: NSA Sifts Americans’ International Internet Traffic to Hunt Hackers - The Intercept

• Islamic State Files Show Structure of Islamist Terror Group - SPIEGEL ONLINE

• ISIS Forces Controlling Ramadi are Ex-Baathist Saddam Loyalists

• DiskCryptor wiki

• Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders - NYTimes.com

• Practical malleability attack against CBC-Encrypted LUKS partitions | Jakob Lell's Blog

• bitlocker.pdf

• Microsoft Gives Details About Its Controversial Disk Encryption - The Intercept

• Congressman Warns of Encrypted "Dark Spaces"; Another Says: "Ooooh It Sounds Really Scary" - The Intercept

• New Snowden documents reveal secret memos expanding spying | Ars Technica

• MPs begin challenge against UK’s DRIPA data retention and surveillance law | Ars Technica UK

• How big data can spot unemployment before the government can | Ars Technica UK

• UK embraces contactless payments as cards surge ahead of cash for the first time | Ars Technica UK

• SourceForge locked in projects of fleeing users, cashed in on malvertising [Updated] | Ars Technica

• Nmap Development: Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account

• Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Map | Check Point Software

• The AntiSocial Engineer Ltd | Total Social Engineering Protection For Your Organisation

• Google Transparency Report Reveals Nearly 1 Million Links Requested 'To Be Forgotten'

• Reddit Wants Users to Play Nice, Introduces Anti-Harassment Policy

• Vulnerability in Safari Allows Attackers to Spoof Websites

• Infostealer.Retgate.A | Symantec

• antistalling_code.pdf

• European automobile businesses fall prey to Carbon Grabber | Symantec Connect Community

• Rombertik is CarbonGrabber with a sting in the tail for cheapskates | Communauté Symantec Connect

• Threat Spotlight: Rombertik – Gazing Past the Smoke, Mirrors, and Trapdoors

• Rombertik: A Master of Evasive Malware Techniques

• Researcher Appears to have Exploited Vulnerability During Flight

• LogJam: Researchers Identify Another Web Encryption Vulnerability

• tr_ersatz_passwords.pdf

• IRS Confirms Data Breach of 100,000 Tax Accounts

• Americans Trust Credit Card Companies More Than Government to Secure Their Data

• Teaching Encryption May Soon Require Approval in Australia

• Computer Criminals Brought to Justice - Twin Russian Hackers

• Hacking the News: Global News Media Firms and Small Market Outlets In the Crosshairs of Cyber Threat Groups « Threat Research | FireEye Inc

• Security BSides London 2015: Introducing wifiphisher, a tool for auto...

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• How US students get a university degree for free in Germany - BBC News

• Tiananmen Square: Watch commemorates 1989 crackdown - BBC News

• Ukraine's Poroshenko warns of 'full-scale' Russia invasion - BBC News

• When 100 people lift a bus - BBC News

• Yahoo to face class action lawsuit over email spying - BBC News

• Yahoo to Face Privacy Class-Action Lawsuit Over Scanned Emails

• Attacker Used Hola Free VPN as Denial of Service Botnet

• Top Phishing Targets Account For Over 75% of Attacks

• Radio Killed the Security of Things: RF Jammers & Crime

• Hackers Steal Over a Million Japanese Citizens' Data

• Pro-ISIS Hackers Are Targeting News Outlets

• Wifiphisher: Automating Phishing Attacks Against WiFi

• Section 215 expired today, and the internet isn't worried - SC Magazine

• Spam and Phishing in the First Quarter of 2015 - Securelist

• Financial cyber threats in 2014: things changed - Securelist

• The Naikon APT - Securelist

• Infosecurity Europe 2015 - Securelist

• KSB 2014. A Look into the APT Crystal Ball - Securelist

• How exploit packs are concealed in a Flash object - Securelist

• The Chronicles of the Hellsing APT: the Empire Strikes Back - Securelist

• Lessons learned from Flame, three years later - Securelist

• IT threat evolution in Q1 2015 - Securelist

• Grabit and the RATs - Securelist

• Kaspersky Lab discovers Grabit: A Cyber-spy Tracking SMBs in Thailand, India and the US | Kaspersky Lab

• Attack of the 90s Kids: Chinese Teens Take On the Mobile Ransomware Trade | Security Intelligence Blog | Trend Micro

• Joke or Blunder: Carbanak C&C Leads to Russia Federal Security Service

• Reconnaissance via Professional Social Networks

• DYRE Banking Malware Resurfaces; Europe and North America Most Affected | Security Intelligence Blog | Trend Micro

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

• United Nations News Centre - At first-ever conference, UN takes aim at cyber-threats against nuclear safety

• UN watchdog group warns of cyberattacks on nuclear facilities - SC Magazine

• 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR): Strategic intelligence for cyber defenders - Threat Brief

• 2.3.2015 - World Wide Threats - YouTube

• John McAfee - More Wrong than Right in Security - Infosecurity Magazine

• Businesses See 106 Unknown Malware Attacks Per Hour - Infosecurity Magazine

• 43 Jun 2015 | OpinionWhy PCI DSS 3.1 has Followed 3.0 so Quickly

• 2 Jun 2015Cyber-pledge: US, Japan Have Each Other's Backs

• Dyre malware infections surge in 2015 - SC Magazine

• Data at risk following theft of Heartland Payment Systems computers

• Threat group targets employees at SMBs with Grabit malware

• PCI Council releases PA-DSS 3.1, nixes SSL, early TLS

• Study: Organizations taking months to remediate vulnerabilities

• IT Security News and Security Product Reviews - SC Magazine

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.