Ethan Gach. Kotaku weekend editor. You can reach him at [email protected]. Luke Plunkett. Luke Plunkett is a Contributing Editor based in Canberra, Australia. He has written a book on cosplay, designed a game about airplanes, and also runs. · Security. Let's face it. Software has holes. And hackers love to exploit them. New vulnerabilities appear almost daily. If you have software - we all do - you need to. Information Security Buzz. July 0. 6, 2. 01. July 0. 6, 2. 01. PM - EFF Deeplinks - Turkish police officers in plainclothes yesterday raided a digital security training meeting on the island of Buyukuda in Istanbul, seizing equipment and detaining ten attendees, including Idil Eser, the director of Amnesty International Turkey. The human rights defenders are still being held in separate detention centers, and were denied access to lawyers and the press for over 2. Amnesty's Turkey researcher reports that Eser faces at least seven days pre- trial detention under Turkish law; Global Voices Advocacy says the same for the other Turkish citizens arrested in the raid. The status of the trainers, who are from Germany and Sweden, is currently unknown. EFF believes that everyone should be free to learn to protect themselves online and that this is information they have the right to share. Digital security trainings like this one are frequently held across the world to educate lawyers, journalists, and human rights advocates on how best to protect themselves and their communities. Teaching or learning these skills is certainly no grounds for detention. By conducting this raid, Turkey joins Iran and Ethiopia as countries where innocent citizens are intimidated and arrested simply for learning the basic principles of modern technology. We join Amnesty International, HIVOS, Article 1. Turkish authorities release all the Buyukuda detainees, including the two digital security trainers, immediately. July 0. 6, 2. 01. PM - Dark Reading - Pakistani man sentenced to prison for hacking into PBX systems and generating millions of dollars via bogus premium phone calls and laundering the money. July 0. 6, 2. 01. PM - Office of Inadequate Security - Thomas Fox- Brewster reports: WWE fans take note: an IT error may have left your personal information open to anyone, including addresses, educational background, earnings and ethnicity. Earlier this week, Bob Dyachenko, from security firm Kromtech, told Forbes he’d uncovered a huge, unprotected WWE database containing information on more than 3 million users, noting it was open [..]. July 0. 6, 2. 01. PM - Office of Inadequate Security - Mike Eckel reports: A notorious Russian hacker whose exploits and later arrest gave glimpses into the intersection of computer crime and Russian law enforcement has been sentenced to two years in prison. The Moscow City Court issued its ruling July 6 against Vladimir Anikeyev in a decision made behind closed doors, one indication of the [..]. July 0. 6, 2. 01. PM - Office of Inadequate Security - A massive international hacking and telecommunications fraud scheme served as a backdrop for an FBI investigation that led to the capture of a Pakistani citizen who played a major role in scamming U. S. companies out of millions of dollars in fees. From November 2. 00. December 2. 01. 2, Muhammad Sohail Qasmani laundered more than $1. July 0. 6, 2. 01. PM - CSO Online - Nord. VPN gives you a private and fast path through the public Internet. All of your data is protected every step of the way using revolutionary 2. SSL encryption even a supercomputer can’t crack. Access Hulu, Netflix, BBC, ITV, Sky, Rai. TV and much more from anywhere in the world. Unmetered access for 6 simultaneous devices. You're sure to find dozens of good uses for a VPN. Take advantage of the current 7. This is a special deal available for a limited time. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here. July 0. 6, 2. 01. PM - EFF Deeplinks - Ruth Taylor never expected that her hobby would get her sued for patent infringement. Her photography website, Bytephoto. The site hosts user- submitted photos and runs weekly competitions, decided by user vote, for the best. Ruth’s main business is her own photography. She supports that business by visiting more than a dozen local art festivals in Bucks County, Pennsylvania every year. In 2. 00. 7, almost four years after Bytephoto began running online photo competitions, a company called Garfum. Corporation applied for a patent titled “Method of Sharing Multi- Media Content Among Users in a Global Computer Network.” The patent, U. S. Patent No. 8,2. On September 2. 3, 2. Garfum filed a federal lawsuit accusing Bytephoto of patent infringement for allowing its users to vote for their favorite photo. Ruth didn’t understand how someone could patent online contests. It seemed like a scam.”Like many people sued for patent infringement, Ruth first learned of the case when a lawyer who had seen the complaint online called out of the blue, hoping to represent her. She was stunned. “It seemed like a scam,” she said. Ruth didn’t understand how someone could patent online contests. It just didn’t seem logical. A few days later, a process server arrived at her house to formally serve the complaint. Then Ruth knew it was real. Garfum’s opening settlement demand was $5. This demand far exceeded Bytephoto’s annual revenue. Ruth learned that defending the case could easily cost more than a million dollars. Since Bytephoto was just a hobby, Ruth had never incorporated it. This meant she was personally on the hook. She faced the choice between paying the settlement and paying even higher litigation costs. This was especially frustrating because Bytephoto began allowing users to vote for their favorite photographs years before Garfum filed its patent application. You can’t patent what already exists. But proving this defense in court would take months of expensive discovery. Fortunately for Ruth, Garfum’s lawsuit arrived after the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank. Many judges have allowed challenges under Alice to be filed early in the case rather than waiting for discovery (since the patent itself is the key evidence). EFF agreed to represent Ruth pro bono and filed a motion asking the court to hold the patent invalid under Alice. A few days before the hearing on that motion, Garfum voluntarily abandoned its suit. Ruth’s case is a perfect example of why Alice improves the patent system. Garfum’s broad and abstract patent did nothing to promote innovation. The idea of voting has been around for centuries. The idea of applying voting to online social networks did not deserve patent protection. Indeed, even Ruth’s own website predated Garfum’s application. Yet a settlement or litigation expenses could quickly have led to the site being shut down. Fortunately, thanks to the Alice ruling, Ruth was able to defeat Garfum’s absurd claim and continue running her site and her business. July 0. 6, 2. 01. PM - CSO Online - Historically, IT teams have tended to deploy web application firewalls (WAFs) simply to comply with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). If this is the case in your organization, whether you are a financial services provider or a retailer, it may be time to take another look at these valuable security tools. Many of today’s data security professionals are beginning to recognize that unprotected web applications have become attractive targets for cybercriminals looking for easy entry points into their networks. The fact is, securing application environments presents a unique and consistent challenge to IT teams. Which is why 8. 3 percent of enterprise IT executives, according to a recent IDG survey, now believe that application security is critical to their IT strategy. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here. July 0. 6, 2. 01. PM - Dark Reading - Researchers say Islamic State's United Cyber Caliphate remains in its infancy when it comes to cyberattack expertise. July 0. 6, 2. 01. PM - Office of Inadequate Security - Baptist Medical Center South (“Baptist South”) is committed to protecting the security and con dentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On May 1. 8, 2. 01. Baptist South learned that a backup hard drive used for EEG testing was missing from an EEG room. We immediately began [..]. July 0. 6, 2. 01. PM - CSO Online - Are we winning at security right now? Before you answer (too late, right?), take a moment to consider what it means to win. Less trick question and more a candid exploration of our collective mindset in security. We remain flooded with headlines and conference talks that decry our losses and offer approaches for us to win. The constant negativity poisons our mindset to the point where we question if security even matters, if we matter. To be certain, security matters. Increasingly, security matters. Kotaku. 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