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US chip maker Intel has been prohibited by the US Department of Commerce to export chips needed to upgrade Chinese supercomputers. The Department determined that "the National University of Defense...

A coordinated operation between international police and private technology companies shuts down the Simda botnet.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-hackers-run-10-year-spy-campaign-in-asia-report-finds-1428854482 By NEWLEY PURNELL Wall Street Journal April 12, 2015

http://time.com/3817582/boy-arrested-computer-background/ By Laura Stampler @LauraStampler Time.com April 10, 2015 Pranksters be warned

http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature/will-china-america-clash-cyberspace-12607 By Jon R. Lindsay, Tai Ming Cheung, Derek Reveron The National Interest April 12, 2015

http://www.pressherald.com/2015/04/10/police-departments-pay-hackers-to-unlock-computer-system/ By Staff Reports Portland Press Herald April 10, 2015

Last week's hack attack against TV5Monde resulted in the compromise of its website, social media accounts, the outage of its email server, and a temporary program suspension of 11 of its TV stations. ...

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2908500/data-protection/watermarks-used-to-track-data-through-dark-web-to-russia-nigeria.html By Maria Korolov CSO April 10, 2015

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/hacked-french-tv-network-admits-blunder-that-exposed-youtube-password/ By Dan Goodin Ars Technica April 12, 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/as-encryption-spreads-us-worries-about-access-to-data-for-investigations/2015/04/10/7c1c7518-d401-11e4-a62f-ee745911a4ff_story.html By Ellen...