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After what seems like an eternity, a security company has dared to mention the unmentionable: the US does have advanced persistent threats or nation-state attack groups which are active.

Cyber security researcher and tools provider, Bitdefender, today publicly released its discovery of a sophisticated and dangerous cybercriminal enterprise named StrongPity which it believes to be government-sponsored and working at population surveillance and intelligence exfiltration.

The US is set to ask Chinese visitors who hold long-term US business or visitor visas to provide social media details when they advise of forthcoming travel to the US.

Citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, who were subject to US travel bans last month, may have to provide their social media passwords if they wish to enter the US.

Sweeping ban orders on the entry of certain categories of legal US residents and the ban on citizens of seven Arab and African nations from entering the US for residence, could mean that the organisers of several big technology and other conferences will have to rethink whether they will change their hosting locations.

Adobe has patched a critical flaw in Flash Player currently being exploited by hackers, and users are being asked to update immediately.

The online social media accounts of popular satirical US news site The Onion seem to have been hacked by an activist Syrian group, known as the 'Syrian Electronic Army.'

Infamous hacker collective Anonymous has commandeered the website of Syria's Ministry of Defense, changing it to criticize the "brutal regime" of Bashar Al-Assad.