The US Justice Department issued guidelines for StingRay Surveillance devices, new rules define aim to ensure privacy protection and transparency.
Do you know what is a StingRay? If you want further details give a look to a post I wrote for the Infosec Institute on the StingRay Technology:

"StingRay is an IMSI-catcher (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) designed and commercialized by the Harris Corporation. The cellular-surveillance system costs as much as $400,000 in the basic configuration, and its price varies with add-ons ordered by the agency.

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Detecting Remote Access Trojans can be very challenging because they mimic legitimate commercial remote administration tools, open legitimate network ports, and perform very surgical operations that don't resemble typical malware techniques, says Udi Shamir, CSO and head of SecurityLabs, SentinelOne.
No doubt this stealth aided attackers who used the Carbanak malware RAT, which, according to "Carbanak APT: The Great Bank Robbery", February 2015, Kaspersky Labs, infected banks globally, stole funds, and wreaked financial havoc estimated at up to $1 billion in losses.

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The security expert Laxman Muthiyah from India has discovered a new vulnerability in the popular social network Facebook. This is the third bug discovered by the expert in since January, at the beginning of the year he found a serious flaw in Facebook graphs that allowed him to delete users’ Facebook photo album without being authenticated.

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