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In the wake of several high profile hacks in 2014, companies are set to spend more on cybersecurity this year, according to a survey by Piper Jaffray.

Retail cybercrime across the holiday season dropped, despite record business for companies across Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to research from IBM, reported by Tech Week Europe.

A website recommended by large portions of the UK's police forces has fixed a privacy bug that provided a "shopping list for burglars" after being tipped off to the exploit by a security researcher, reports the BBC.

Are hacking victims "hacking back"? That question was recently posed in headlines like this one from Bloomberg: FBI Investigating Whether Companies Are Engaged in Revenge Hacking. The Marketplace reporter, Ben Johnson, speculated that 2015 might be the year of "hacking back" when he asked me about revenge hacking.

Microsoft has warned of a new variant of a banking malware that appears to be targeting German speakers, according to PC World.

A paper from researchers at various universities suggests that security is an area that needs work for wearables, according to a report in The Register.

19,000 Bitcoin - valued at around $275 each, so $5 million together - have been stolen from a majour European Bitcoin exchange, reports RT.

Moonpig, the online personalised card company, has been accused of a shockingly sloppy attitude to security, after apparently leaving a serious hole in its security unpatched.

A hacking group has 'mistakenly taken down' a local bus website under the impression that it is a far more significant target, The Guardian reports.