Several ministers arrived for their crunch meeting in Brussels expressing scepticism that Athens would implement the austerity measures it has proposed.

One unnamed European official, quoted by the Associated Press, said there was a general feeling in the room that the Greek proposals are "too little, too late" and as such "more specific and binding commitments" are needed from the government in Athens.

“The team has now concluded with high confidence that sensitive information, including the Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of 21.5 million individuals, was stolen from the background investigation databases,” OPM wrote in the statement.

In June, after the hack was first publicly acknowledged, the government said the breach exposed the personal information of approximately four million people—and the information stolen only included data such as Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses of current and former federal workers.

"It is now apparent that a major threat exists because of the posting by cyber criminals of Hacking Team proprietary software on the internet the night of July 6," reads a statement on the Hacking Team website.

"Before the attack, Hacking Team could control who had access to the technology which was sold exclusively to governments and government agencies. Now, because of the work of criminals, that ability to control who uses the technology has been lost. Terrorists, extortionists and others can deploy this technology at will if they have the technical ability to do so. We believe this is an extremely dangerous situation."

The worst flooding to hit China in 50 years was happening in Sichuan province, in the same place that had been devastated by a massive earthquake just 5 years earlier. Over the course of 5 days, 73 centimeters of rain pounded the mountains, peaking at 29 centimeters in a single day.

Geography and pollution combined to make the floods intensely severe, Fan says. And she suspects the combination is not unique. Catastrophic floods in Pakistan only a month later, she says, may have involved the same factors: heavy industry plus a mountain backdrop.

It's the worst-case scenario of the Hacking Team hack: the as-yet-unpatched Flash vulnerability revealed in the trove of source code leaked from the surveillance-ware company is being exploited in the wild

Malwarebytes, which had already warned the exploit would be weaponised quickly, notes: “This is one of the fastest documented case of an immediate weaponisation in the wild, possibly thanks to the detailed instructions left by Hacking Team.”

Encryption 2.0 features a new set of encryption capabilities for EFSS security, making it possible for organizations tasked with protecting sensitive information to collaborate and share files.

The platform allows users to adopt their desired encryption standard, and even write a server app to meet their unique encryption requirements; plus, it can be delivered as an app for integration into customers' existing infrastructure.

The FBI is one of the clients who bought hacking software from the private Italian spying agency Hacking Team, which was itself the victim of a recent hack.

The FBI is not in good company here. According to several spreadsheets within the hacked archive, which contain a list of Hacking Team’s customers, many of the other governments who bought the same software are repressive regimes, such as Sudan and Bahrain.

There's one fundamental problem with Apple Music that's crippling its potential for me and keeping it from becoming my one and only music destination — exactly the thing Apple wants it to be.

iTunes Match has been one of Apple's more flawed cloud services for a few years now. Ever since it rolled out, users have complained about several key things.

A troubling report today from Kirk McElhearn claims that Apple is applying DRM to every track contained in iCloud Music Library — even your own songs. So if you upload regular old MP3s to iCloud, delete them from your PC or Mac and then redownload, they'll be DRMed files.

The crucial evidence to back up this allegation came from The Pirate Bay, who shared upload logs with TorrentFreak that tied a user account and uploads to Prenda and its boss John Steele.

In any case, today’s revelations show that Prenda is in serious trouble. The same copyright trolls who abused The Pirate Bay to trap pirates, may also face their demise thanks to the very same site.

"The new generation, which is into selfies ... I think they'll find it cool. They'll embrace it," said Ajay Bhalla, who's in charge of coming up with innovative solutions for MasterCard's security challenges.

If you go with facial recognition, you stare at the phone -- blink once -- and you're done. MasterCard's security researchers decided blinking is the best way to prevent a thief from just holding up a picture of you and fooling the system.