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A London sexual health centre mistakenly leaked the details of nearly 800 patients who have attended HIV clinics, bosses have admitted. The 56 Dean Street clinic in Soho sent out the names and e-mail addresses of 780 people when a newsletter was issued to clinic patients. Patients were supposed to be blind-copied into the e-mail but instead the details were sent as a group e-mail. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the breach was "completely unacceptable"....

The NCA website was taken down by the notorious hacking group, Lizard Squad. The National Crime Agency, or NCA, is a UK body tasked with apprehending organised crime, having replaced the serious organised crime agency in 2013. The attack has come as an act of retaliation for the arrest of 6 people for using lizard squad’s DDoS tool by the NCA. While a DDoS may not cause long term instability for the agency, the fact...

14 Japanese banks are under attack from a new breed of Trojan – named Shifu – the Japanese word for thief. What makes this Trojan special is that it’s made from a mix of previously discovered malware, according to IBM Security X-Force staff. Austrian, Germany and other EU countries as well as Japan have been host to the attack. Not your classical banking Trojan, Shifu comes with an ability to choose multiple targets and is...

In today's news: The FBI has issued a warning after a spike in CEO fraud has claimed as much as $1.2 billion from companies across the globe. More on this story and others at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

In today's news: One of the biggest online black markets within the dark web, Agora, has been shut down by its operators due to security concerns, citing fears that their servers could be traceable through vulnerabilities in the Tor hidden services protocol. More IT security news at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

In today's news: Web-based Git repository service GitHub has been under a distributed denial of service, or DDoS attack. The service's status page reported a 'brief capacity overload' before the site identified the DDoS attack on Tuesday morning. More IT security news at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

In today's news: The data breach at Ashley Madison is feared to have driven two more people to suicide, following a Texas resident taking his own life last week.

Australian telco Telstra has been unknowingly serving up one if the world's most dangerous hacking tools after its news site was infested with malvertising.

A UK teenager was part of a team of hackers who caused government websites in the UK and one used by the FBI to crash through cyber attacks.

Gaming and hosting companies have been hit with a new kind of DDoS attack that could snowball without preventative steps, Level 3 communications warned on Monday.