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• Language barriers, Lunar New Year and NDA impasse: How ASUS and Kaspersky fell out over Live Update hack

  ASUS told about ShadowHammer attack in January, but kept quiet until after Kaspersky Lab broke story in the media

• EU Parliamentarians visit U.S. to talk data protection, mass surveillance

  Discussions will cover major privacy and data protection issues

• FTC targets group that sends out millions of robocalls a day

  FTC and 10 state attorneys general settle with vacation services group that made massive robocall across the country.

• Feds go after operator of revenge porn site

  The FTC charged Craig Brittain with obtaining nude photos under false pretenses and then charging to remove them from the site

• Data exchange talks lag, jeopardizing US firms' ability to operate in Europe

  Ongoing issues relating to US national security and spying imperil 'safe harbor' personal data pact

• PGP creator, other top cryptographers head 2014 National Cyber Security Hall of Fame class

  Accomplished cryptographers are among the five inductees into this year's National Cyber Security Hall of Fame.

Features about Federal Trade Commission

• Malvertising rise pushes ad industry to action

  Hidden malware within ads on websites has advertisers scrambling to come up with a coordinated response.

• Are your smartphone apps selling you out?

  Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean your mobile apps aren't out to get you

• FTC gives Google slap on wrist instead of face

  U.S. government gives Google good talking-to over antitrust while EU still probes, analysts say