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Securing wireless local area networks can be a tricky business, and a group of researchers have highlighted just how much.

WASHINGTON - Former US president Jimmy Carter has admitted he uses snail mail to evade monitoring by the National Security Agency and that he feels such surveillance methods have been abused.

The Cyber Security Research Alliance (CSRA) announced on Monday the selection of its first academic research partners who will work together to advance cyber physical system security in transportation vehicles, medical devices and the power grid.

Former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller has joined law firm WilmerHale as partner, the firm announced Monday. Muller retired from the FBI last year after serving as the sixth Director, a position he took one week prior to the September 11 attacks and held for 12 years under two presidents.

BEIJING - Beijing on Monday condemned Washington over reports that the US National Security Agency had for years had been secretly tapping the networks of Chinese telecoms and Internet giant Huawei.

Network security firm Palo Alto Networks announced on Monday that it would acquire privately held security startup Cyvera for roughly $200 million. Tel-Aviv, Israel-based Cyvera has 55 employees and has developed technologies to help block zero-day attacks on the endpoint.

SINGAPORE - Stakeholders meet in Singapore Monday to discuss the future of the Internet after the US said it will hand over stewardship of its technical operations to a global group including businesses and governments.

Tech Experts Unite to Launch Secure Domain FoundationThe Secure Domain Foundation will protect the domain industry from abuse by helping domain registrars and other Internet infrastructure operators identify cyber-criminals setting up criminal networks, the non-profit's founder said in an interview.

WASHINGTON - The US National Security Agency has secretly tapped into the networks of Chinese telecom and internet giant Huawei, the New York Times and Der Spiegel reported on their websites Saturday.

GENEVA - Hackers from across Europe flocked to Geneva this weekend, not to play havoc with Swiss computers but to test their ethical hacking skills.

WASHINGTON - UPDATE - US President Barack Obama met bosses from Facebook, Google and other Internet giants Friday to discuss plans to overhaul US spy agency surveillance practices which have infuriated the industry.

According to a recent report from McAfee, the number of digitally signed malware samples tripled in 2013, driven largely by the abuse of automated Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) that wrap malicious binaries within digitally signed, otherwise legitimate installers.

TOKYO - Failed Bitcoin exchange MtGox says it has found 200,000 coins worth $116 million in an old "digital wallet", after it collapsed in February admitting it had lost half a billion dollars in a possible theft.

Threat researchers from Cisco have shared details on a new and rapidly spreading attack targeting web servers running on systems powered by outdated versions of Linux.

A Linux worm first spotted in November has joined the growing ranks of malware mining for crypto-currency. The worm is called Darlloz. Late last year, Symantec reported that the worm was spreading via a known vulnerability in PHP that was patched in 2012.