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Codespaces.com is out of business; due to DDOS attack that hid the accompanied intrusion into Code Spaces' Amazon EC2 control panel. 

N9500 Android smartphone manufactured by Chinese company, Star, has preloaded spyware in firmware, disguised as Google Play Store App. 

Bill Wright, Symantec's director of government affairs and global cyber security partnerships, spoke at a recent government cyber security briefing at the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association. He cited Symantec's 2014 Internet Security Threat Report. He noted that targeted attacks on mid-sized firms (those with 251 to 2,500 employees) and small firms (those with 250 employees and fewer) rose by 61% in 2013 from 2012 levels.

Symantec's 2014 Internet Security Threat Report Whitepaper.