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• How to prepare for and respond to a cyber attack

  Cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to bypass security measures and no organization is immune from attack.

• Personal weather stations can expose your Wi-Fi network

  Netatmo weather stations upload Wi-Fi passwords and SSIDs to the company's servers over insecure connections

• After FBI blames North Korea for Sony attack, now what?

  More important than arguing over who attacked Sony Pictures is what companies do in response to the breach.

• Vulnerabilities found in more command-line tools, wget and tnftp get patches

  Flaws identified in wget and tnftp allow malicious servers to execute rogue commands on users' systems

• Encryption goof fixed in TorrentLocker file-locking malware

  A new variant of TorrentLocker fixes a problem that allowed encrypted files to be freed

• DOJ's charges against China reframe security, surveillance debate

  The charges against five alleged members of the Chinese army refocus a debate dominated by NSA disclosures, some experts say