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Kelly Brook has been named as the 'most dangerous celebrity on the internet' after websites relating to her were found to hide the most malware of any celebrity websites. Also included in the top 10 were Idris Elba, Victoria Beckham and Katie Price. Also in today's news, over 68,000 medical devices may have been hacked, according to two researchers. They found that false medical devices they created attracted thousands of hackers, showing that malicious online...

Anti-virus is dead and it’s all about the next-generation products that can detect, track and gather intelligence on sophisticated, targeted attacks. Or so Wall Street seems to think. If you also buy the hype then you might at least be interested to learn exactly how effective these new products and services are. Which of the extraordinary marketing claims contain a grain of truth and which are pure snake oil? It’s hard to know without independent...

CloudFlare has said it has observed mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second. No victims have been named, but cloudflare has said the Layer 7 HTTP floods hitting the target is a once-theoretical attack turning up in the real world. London CloudFlare engineer Marek Majkowski says the difficulty in turning HTTP floods into a real attack was overcome using malicious JavaScript in an advertisement. "Browser-based L7 floods have been rumored...

Hackers are using a new strain of malware, dubbed GreenDispenser, to infect ATMs and then drain the machine of all its cash, researchers at ProofPoint have revealed. Once Installed, the malware displays an 'out of service' message on the ATM. However these clever attackers can still enter a specific PIN and take the cash and the erase all trace of the malware by using a "deep delete" process, leaving little trace of how the machine...

For a number of years, October has been dubbed Cyber Security Awareness Month. The problem is that not many people know that and fewer do anything about it. Well, it's time to change that. The last week of October (26th-20th) we're launching a campaign called Security Serious - five days dedicated to businesses and consumers who take security seriously and want to share their cyber security experiences with others. Our mantra will be 'we're taking...

Malvertising is making the headlines once more, this time with popular websites Forbes.com and Realtor.com serving up malicious malware. FireEye researchers have reported that eight Forbes URLs attached to news stories between 2012 and 2015 were included in the attack, whilst Malware bytes is reporting that people browsing Realtor.com website over the last few days may have been exposed to a malvertising campaign. Both attacks are similar to previously reported attacks that hit sites including...

In today's news: The website of the Kardashian Family has been hacked, with a hacker finding a way to meddle with accounts and data across their site. More news at www.itsecurityguru.com @IT_SecGuru

Apple has been hit by what is suspected to be the first large scale attack on its app store. Hackers have created a counterfeit version of Apple’s software for building iOS apps, which developers were persuaded to download. The apps in question are particular popular for iPad and iPhone users in China. In a statement, Apple has said they are taking steps to remove the malicious code. The code acts to steal data about users...

The Kremlin has reportedly been hit by what they have described as a “very powerful” distributed denial of service attack – also known as a DDoS attack. The attack is reported to have targeted the nation’s electoral commission. A similar attack was made on Sunday, which targeted the official website of Russian president, Vladimir Putin. As many as 50,000 requests per minute were made in the attacks, according to Vladimir Churov, chairman of Russia’s electoral...

Good morning and welcome to IT Security Guru news. New Hampshire’s attorney general has today been notified of a breach at TD Bank. Reports indicate that an employee took personal data from the bank’s database and shared it with a third party, which has yet to be named. In the report given to the attorney general, TD bank’s head of US privacy and Social media compliance said that the personal information they obtained may have...