Security analyst says Yahoo!, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Tumblr all popped by same gang

Says five-strong ‘Group E’ may have lifted a billion Yahoo! records, sells to states

Five hackers are said to be behind breaches totalling up to a staggering three billion credentials from some of the world’s biggest tech companies including the Yahoo! breach that led to the loss of 500 million credentials.…

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Yahoo! Answers used to cloak command and control networks

VXer wordsmiths demo novel stealth tricks

Two malware instances have converted numbers to words in a novel attempt to cloak the IP addresses of command and control servers.…

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Google, Dropbox the latest US tech giants to sign up to the Privacy Shield

Queued up to self-certify

Internet giant Google has signed up to the Privacy Shield, a framework designed to facilitate the transfer of personal data between the EU and US by businesses.…

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152k cameras in 990Gbps record-breaking dual DDoS

Hacked low-powered cameras and internet-of-things things

The world’s largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has been clocked from the same network of 152,463 compromised low-powered cameras and internet-of-things devices which punted a media outlet off the internet.…

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Apple to crunch iOS 10 local backup password brute force hole

Research finds faster cracking flaw

Apple is brewing a fix to patch an iOS password flaw that allows credentials to be stolen from backups.…

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And! it! begins!! Yahoo! sued! over! ultra-hack! of! 500m! accounts!

Class-action lawsuit in California expected to be first of many in the US

Just two days after Yahoo! admitted hackers had raided its database of at least 500 million accounts, the Purple Palace is being dragged into court.…

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IBM botched geo-block designed to save Australia’s census

Bureau of Stats says spooks signed off IBM’s plan, but Big Blue mucked something up

Australia’s Bureau of Statistics has heavily criticised IBM for the security it applied to the nation’s failed online census, which was taken offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that battered a curiously flimsy defensive shield.…

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Woo hoo, UK.gov has unveiled yet another tech creche – for infosec

This one’s in Cheltenham. Makes a change from hipsterville East London

Plans are afoot in Westminster to burn even more taxpayers’ cash by launching a new cyber-security startup accelerator in Cheltenham.…

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Online scammers speed up: Hit gold every 15 seconds

Take five to fix fraud

There were over one million fraud attempts in the UK in the first six months of 2016, or one every 15 seconds – more than 50 per cent higher than the same period of last year.…

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Dark web drug sellers shutter location-tracking EXIF data from photos

But 229 didn’t.

Criminals have started to aggressively erase EXIF metadata from their photos to make it harder for authorities to locate them, Harvard University students Paul Lisker and Michael Rose find.…

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Let’s Encrypt won its Comodo trademark battle – but now fan tools must rename

Why the popular letsencrypt.sh is now known as Dehydrated

Popular Bash shell script LetsEncrypt.sh, which is used to manage free SSL/TLS certificates from the Let’s Encrypt project, has renamed this week to avoid a trademark row.…

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National Cyber Security Centre to shift UK to ‘active’ defence

Cyber chief calls for ‘offensive’ weapons

The head of the UK’s new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has detailed plans to move the UK to “active cyber-defence”, to better protect government networks and improve the UK’s overall security.…

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You call it ‘hacking.’ I call it ‘investigation’

Let’s call the whole thing off

Something for the Weekend, Sir?  Here’s a photo of what I had for lunch! Amazing!!!…

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Hacker and chums jailed over gold bullion hack, track ‘n’ grab scam

Bad pennies

A UK hacker who broke into the computer systems to get details of gold bullion deliveries so they could be intercepted and stolen has been jailed for five years and four months.…

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US National Security Agency gets CREST smile

Britain-based certification body pleased about ‘huge growth’

CREST, the UK-based certification and accreditation body for the infosec industry, has signed an agreement with the National Security Agency to take over its incident response accreditation programme.…

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Israeli Pentagon DDoSers explain their work, get busted by FBI

There’s not much more than fine print between stress testing and DDoS-as-a-service

Two Israeli men have been arrested for running a distributed-denial-of service-as-a-service site, after one seemingly claimed to attack the Pentagon.…

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NHS hospitals told to swallow stronger anti-ransomware medication

New cyber triage to fight malware plagues

NHS Digital is set to start expanding the range of cybersecurity services available to UK hospitals and clinics.…

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Seagate sued by its own staff for leaking personal info to identity thieves

Workers furious that HR fell for phishing scam

Seagate is trying to fight off a lawsuit filed by employees whose personal information was lost when the storage giant was hit with a phishing attack.…

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NHS health apps project plan: Powered by your medical records

Privacy worries bubble up after Health Sec’s announcement

UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt plans for NHS-approved health apps to play a role in patient records and healthcare have already spawned a rash of privacy concerns.…

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Kaspersky to 1337 haxors: take down our power grid. We dare you

Capture the flag romp will offer chance to do the thing governments everywhere fear

Kaspersky Labs is launching a capture-the-flag event at which hackers will have the chance to pop a simulated power station.…

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Mr Chow plates up sticky ransomware

Global Chinese restaurant chain serves old recipe of Darkleech with exploit kit sauce

Popular Chinese food chain “Mr Chow’s” has been caught plating up ransomware from its website.…

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Sundown exploit kit authors champions of copy-paste hacking

Pay peanuts, get monkeys.

Authors of the Sundown exploit kit have proven themselves masters of copy and paste, stealing exploits from rivals and borking encryption when they opt for originality.…

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NBA’s Golden State Warriors sued for ‘mic snooping’ mobile app

Fans cry foul over excessive recording powers

The Golden State Warriors have been sued by a bunch of fans who claim the basketball team’s mobile app is eavesdropping on them.…

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