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GCHQ is to open a summer school offering a six-week cyber course in the north of England.   Named Northern Exposure 2015, the summer school will offer a “stimulating learning experience” for 30 students who have a natural curiosity about technology and an interest in the latest gadgets.   Running from 13th July to the 21st August in Scarborough, it is open to UK nationals aged 18 and over, those selected will not only learn...

The subpoena issued by Uber has been revealed to be to code repository Github. In the original story, Uber managing counsel of data privacy Katherine Tassi said a “John Doe” lawsuit had been filed in order that can gather information that may lead to confirmation of the identity of the third party who accessed a database of 50,000 driver details. In the subpoena, hosted by the Register, Uber attorneys ask to produce documents, information or objects...

GCHQ is to launch a ten-week cyber training summer programme for first or second year university students who have an interest in cyber.   Aimed at those who are skilled in at least one computer language or who have an interest in cyber beyond that of their university studies, the Cyber Insiders Summer School will run from 6th July – 11th September 2015 and will be located in Cheltenham.   The school will feature targeted...

A database of drivers who work with the Uber app was accessed last May, resulting in the possible theft of information on 50,000 drivers.   In a statement, Uber managing counsel of data privacy Katherine Tassi said that it identified access to the database by “an unauthorised third party” and a small percentage of current and former Uber driver partner names and driver’s license numbers were contained in the database.   “Immediately upon discovery we...

Iran has been named as the perpetrator of an attack on a Las Vegas casino last year. After the Sands hotel and casino chain was attacked in February 2014, James Clapper, US director of national intelligence, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the attack was by Iranian attackers which hit many of the systems which help run the $14 billion operation. According to Bloomberg, Clapper said that the destructive attacks demonstrate that Iran is...

Internet service provider TalkTalk has admitted that it suffered a major breach of user information, including customer names, addresses, phone and account numbers. As reported by The Register, in an email to customers TalkTalk said that it first saw a big increase in malicious scammers claiming to be from TalkTalk at the end of last year. Following an investigation it said some customer information could have been illegally accessed, with scammers quoting these details to customers....

Cyber security is as the same stage the automotive industry was in the 1920s, as public and private sectors need to come together in order to make security standards a reality. Speaking at the Trust in the Digital World Conference in Madrid, Jakub Boratynski, head of trust and security at the European Commission, said that in Brussels there is a new challenge faced every five years with “new masters”, and while this is a challenge,...

Hackers Lizard Squad hijacked the Malaysian registrar Webnic.cc in order to gain attack both Google’s Vietnam domain and Lenovo.com. According to security blogger Brian Krebs, Webnic.cc serves 600,000 other domains. As a result of the control, on Monday Google.com.vn briefly redirected visitors to a page that read, “Hacked by Lizard Squad, greetz from antichrist, Brian Krebs, sp3c, Komodo, ryan, HTP & Rory Andrew Godfrey (holding it down in Texas).” The message also included a link to the...

The cloud is secure enough for what it is used for, but more work needs to be done on cryptography and key management as “distributed computing” will stick. Speaking on a panel at the Trust in the Digital World conference in Madrid, Steve Purser, head of operations at ENISA said that cloud is “secure enough but we need to do more work” to deal with modern risks. He said: “The current state is that ENISA...

The large majority of society are not aware of what is going on with their data and use services on internet regardless, and this is not a sustainable model. Speaking at the Trust in the Digital World conference in Madrid, Richard Benjamins, group director of business intelligence and Big Data at Telefonica DG, said that Big Data and digital trust are not a new thing, but it is “a privacy time bomb”. Benjamins said that...