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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.

Popular taxi app company Uber have announced an increase in security staff to combat data breaches and hackers.

In today's news: Numerous security flaws in Android have become apparent - in Stagefright, the sandbox and in the Google Admin app - are mobile operating systems simply doomed to flaws? More IT Security News at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

AppRiver, a leading provider of email messaging and Web security solutions, today confirmed its first distributor for the BeNeLux region.  DCC  Nederland, a value added distributor, is to add all of AppRiver’s products to its portfolio – including SecureTide™ spam and virus protection, CipherPost Pro™ email encryption and SecureSurf™ Web protection. AppRiver and DCC’s partnership could not come at a more influential time for the cloud industry.  According to a recent Gartner survey, 72 percent...

In today's news: A wave of malware has hit online advertising, as hackers buy up ad space which they then use to scope out potential victims for their trojans. More IT Security News at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

Survey Cites Risk of Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure; Issues with Flash and Security Patching Contribute to Endpoint Security Risk Bromium®, Inc., the pioneer of threat isolation to prevent data breaches, today announced the publication of “Black Hat 2015: State of Security,” a survey of more than 100 information security professionals conducted at the Black Hat Conference 2015. The survey reveals issues with Flash and security patch management, with the majority of respondents citing the endpoint...

A survey of over 200 IT professionals at this year’s InfoSecurity Europe has found that, while almost 80% of organisations have a process for employees to report phishing emails to the IT/security department, most don’t. In fact, over half of those spoken with (52%) estimated employees report less than 25% of dodgy emails. Digging a little deeper revealed only 8% think that more than 75% of suspicious messages are reported. This surprising statistic comes in...

Harness machine data, that’s how. by Joe Goldberg, Chief Security Evangelist at Splunk As organisations across the world embrace online channels to market, the bad guys of the internet are being rewarded with more avenues in which to breach businesses. Open networks, online payment portals and even Point-of-Sale devices are leaving organisations open to more advanced and persistent threats. Such threats are coming from hacktivists, cybercriminals, malicious insiders, and nation states. Aided by speed, persistence...