In terms of risk to Verizon Security customers, the most significant developments this week revolve around governance issues in Europe. Data protection, privacy and anti-piracy laws, regulations and agreements are in flux and regardless of the final outcomes, the changes themselves are costly. Predictably, Anonymous finds only fault with these developments, thus attacks and threats of attacks are among this week’s intel collections. The RISK Team had to dip into our reserves of skepticism in the face of reports of railway hacking in the the northwestern US. Early reports have an aroma similar to hacked water pumps.  Symantec pcAnywhere needs to be updated, but we assess calls to disrupt operations are hype. On the other hand, Trend Micro’s report of malware exploiting a vulnerability from a January Microsoft security bulletin reflects an in the wild risk. So far, that risk has very limited scope.

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