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Retail electronics chain RadioShack is hoping earn some extra money by selling off customer information that it has retained over the years. As part of RadioShack’s bankruptcy sale, they included the personal data of 65 million customers as well as 13 million email addresses. This is all despite the fact that this violates RadioShack’s own online privacy policy that states that they would not sell or rent any personally identifiable information. For the full story on this data sale, click here:: RadioShack to auction off customer data, violating own privacy policy

After years of suspicion, China has revealed that they have several cyber warfare divisions on its military and civilian-government sides. The military branch carries out defensive and offensive network attacks. Another branch is made up of specialist from civilian organizations that conduct military leadership network operations and the third are external entities that pretty much hack-for-hire. For more intricate details on China’s cyber army, click here:: China Admits It Has Cyber Army

The FBI wants infamous cybercriminal Evgenly Bogachev and they want him bad. So bad that they are offering anyone with information that leads to his arrest $3 million as a bounty. The high price is due to the fact the FBI have been unable to find Bogachev for the last 10 months. For more information about that bounty and the others the FBI may be offering for the arrest of other cybercriminals, click here:: US turns to rewards in hunt for overseas cybercriminals

Lookout, a mobile security firm, announced that they have found 13 new pieces of adware in the Google Play app store. This adware can potentially affect up to half a million users. One of the discovered adware installs itself onto your mobile phone and makes its icon invisible to the user as it pushes out annoying advertisements. For more on this adware, please click here:: Nuisance Adware Blights Google Play Again

If you are using a Mac and browsing the web on Chrome, a thirteen-character string could cause your tab to crash. The 13 Assyrian characters crash Chrome instantly, yet has no effect on Windows, Android, or any other iOS. Google is likely aware of this project and is addressing the issue. For more on this 13 character crash, click here:: This String of 13 Characters Can Crash Your Chrome on a Mac