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Cybercriminal gang plunders up to $1 billion from banks over two years

Vint Cerf worries about a ‘digital dark age,’ and your data could be at risk

Huawei faces outcry over telecom towers in Zambia

Megaupload programmer pleads guilty to copyright infringement

Internet Censorship in China: We’ll Sing it for You

One Chinese government agency is so proud of how well they censor the Internet that they put their feelings to music.

Obama pushes for more cyberthreat information sharing

Google relaxes strict bug disclosure rules after Microsoft grievances

After dust-up between the companies over bug revelations, Google offers 14-day grace period before going public

Apple’s Tim Cook warns that sacrificing privacy ‘risks our way of life’

Newsreel reveals that even 1946 debut of ENIAC was greeted with ‘1984’-ish suspicion

Fair-trade smartphone meant to last longer

Personal weather stations can expose your Wi-Fi network

EU air passenger surveillance system could be ready for take-off by year end

U.S. carriers meet voluntary deadline for unlocking mobile phones

Prepaid devices to be unlocked within a year of purchase

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, February 13

US lawmakers introduce two bills to protect email privacy

GeoPoll, Control Union tap mobile tech to bring African farmers into supply chain

Cyberattacks in West Africa spark debate over online security

Can the enterprise allow employees to use the public cloud?

HP courts enterprise workloads with new Helion private clouds

Groups to push for encryption, secure payments at White House cyber summit

New satellite will watch for, warn about fierce solar weather

NASA/NOAA Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) will offer warning system for big solar magnetic storms

Google fear a factor behind Orbitz-Expedia deal

Cisco’s Nexus 9000, ACI customers grow

But ACI accounts for less than 20% of N9K shops; switching highlights Q2 rebound

Judge saves bacon of woman who smeared some on window inside police station

How a bug almost ate all of your Facebook photos

Researcher reports he can delete photos from anybody’s account, Facebook patches flaw, he collects $12,500 bounty

In case you die off before Facebook does

How to use Facebook's new Legacy Contact feature

Developer of Snow Day Calculator weathers the storm … again … and again … and again

VirusTotal tackles false positive malware detections plaguing antivirus and software vendors

Gartner: Makers of things for Internet of Things undervalue security

User friendliness and getting products out the door take precedence.

Major phone network exploring drone and balloon masts

Topographically challenged parts of the world might soon be served by drone-mounted mobile network masts. Other unusual rural connections are also on the horizon.

Microsoft’s patch info ‘blockade’ pinches security staffs

Last month's shuttering of advance notifications continues to frustrate security experts

Sometimes it’s ethical for the doctor to Google you

Patient-focused online searches can uncover health risks, but may erode confidence in a doctor

Urban Engines: Using data to power a better commute

The Internet of Moving Things?

More than 1B records breached in 2014

55% of data breaches were caused by malicious hackers; accidents or human error cited in 25%

Microsoft’s latest mobile app acquisition shows it gets urgency

Buys Sunrise, another Android and iOS mobile app developer, to beef up Outlook

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, February 12

US Senator quizzes Samsung, LG on Smart TV privacy

Apple ends system of recruitment fees that tied labor to contractors

More online censorship coming to closed countries, says report

Cisco posts revenue gains, vows to beat VMware’s network software

Luminoso to enterprises: Here’s what all that chatter really means

How will the Apple Watch succeed where Android Wear has struggled?

Given how slow the rest of the smartwatch market has grown, can the Apple Watch meet its high expectations?

Box gets customer-managed key encryption

Box now allows customers to manage their own keys for data encrypted in the cloud

Everyone has something to say about revived Wi-Fi Innovation Act

Cable, IT vendors support bi-partisan legislation, while automakers and partners are opposed

Senators to push privacy, security legislation for IoT

Facebook super-sizes its open networking switch

IoT revolution hinges on licensing, entitlement management

The new industrial revolution, powered by the Internet of Things, will rely on software licensing and entitlement management to create new revenue streams.

New BlackBerry CSO calls security ‘War of good vs. evil’

BlackBerry's new CSO David Kleidermacher has 23 years of IT experience and expertise in IoT technology, and he will presumably play a key role in the company's future IoT security strategy.

Hitachi buying Pentaho to boost its IoT business

Google’s new open-source PerfKit framework watches cloud application performance

Apache-licensed cloud performance kit aims to make cross-platform comparisons easier.