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Three Websites distributing illegal copies of smartphone apps have been ordered to shut down by the federal government, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.

The University of South Carolina (USC) is notifying some 34,000 people after a system intrusion was detected on a computer used by the College of Education. The breach was discovered in June, but the notifications are being delivered in order to allow those impacted to watch their credit reports.

LOS ANGELES - (AFP) - An armed man was arrested in the western United States on Tuesday for allegedly sending an email that threatened President Barack Obama, a justice official told AFP. "He had sent an emailed threat against the president," said Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the US Attorney's Office in Washington state, confirming that the man was detained at a suburban apartment in Seattle.

ThreatMetrix, a provider of fraud prevention solutions, has released updates to its cybercrime prevention platform, adding new capabilities for detecting VPN use and phishing campaigns, the company said on Tuesday.

The Apache Software Foundation has fixed over fifty bugs, including two security vulnerabilities, in its venerable Web server software.

The Department of Homeland Security has warned that encrypted traffic sent to and from RuggedCom network products can be decrypted by malicious attackers.

Adobe on Tuesday released updates that address multiple security vulnerabilities across various versions of Adobe Flash Player running on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Android.

Apple patched a vulnerability in its remote desktop product where the connection isn't being encrypted correctly. This may result in information disclosure, Apple said in its advisory.

Amazon Web Services has launched Glacier, a new low-cost storage service optimized for data archiving and backup.

Researchers Say Crisis May be the First Malware that Attempts to Spread Onto a Virtual Machine

Visa said on Tuesday that it is rolling out a new service for acquirers and their merchants that will help to better secure payment card data. The service, Visa Merchant Data Secure with Point-to-Point Encryption, will be fully available to customers by early 2013.

Operation Free Assange, Anonymous’ latest campaign in support of the WikiLeaks founder, has taken aim at various Swedish and UK government websites knocking at least two of them offline, while defacing another.

In response to the code required to crack MS-CHAPv2 sessions being published to the Web, Microsoft has issued a security advisory for organizations that may need guidance. However, the software giant has made it clear that while the issue is worth addressing, it is not something they plan to address with a security update.

While SQL Injection Attacks are Growing in Frequency, Savvy Application Developers Can Find Enough Available Tools to Combat Them

NEW DELHI - (AFP) - India has demanded social networking websites take down provocative messages and blocked some online content after anonymous threats sparked an exodus of migrants from southern cities. Tens of thousands of workers and students from the remote northeast region returned home last week from Bangalore, Mumbai and other cities fearing attacks from Muslims in reprisal for recent ethnic clashes in the state of Assam.

A new report from Arxan Technologies says that there are hacked versions of almost all of the most popular applications available in Apple and Google's mobile app stores being sold in third-party markets. 

PARIS - (AFP) - Wireless routers for homes and offices could be knitted together to provide a communications system for emergency responders if the mobile phone network fails, German scientists reported on Monday. In many countries, routers are so commonplace even in medium-sized towns that they could be used by fire services, ambulance and police if cellphone towers and networks are down or overwhelmed by people caught up in an emergency, they say.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday said that it took actions to halt what they are saying was a $600 million Internet-based Ponzi scheme. The SEC said that it took “emergency actions” and froze assets controlled by Paul Burks of Lexington, North Carolina and his company, Rex Venture Group, operator of the website ZeekRewards.com.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced additional details on its Open Certification Framework, an industry initiative to provide security certification for cloud providers.

SafeNet Launches High Security Encryption Appliance for Network Attached Storage (NAS)