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Team Sky, the professional cycling team, has said it fears critics of team member and current Tour de France leader Chris Froome may have stolen training data after hacking their systems. www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

In the news today: Apple launches their contactless payment system, Apple Pay, in the UK. But what are the security issues? www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

All current versions of flash are impacted by the discovery of two critical zero day vulnerabilities. www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

The breach at the OPM is getting worse and worse, as reports emerge that 21.5 million background data files were also stolen, on top of the 4 million personnel records we already knew about. @IT_SecGuru

New research has shown that Wild Neutron, a hacker group otherwise known as Morpho, has been reaping havoc over the last 4 years with some of the biggest global corporations. @IT_SecGuru

Casinos in New Jersey were taken offline for 30 minutes and threatened with further disruption unless a bitcoin ransom is paid. More on this story and others at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

Hacking Team, providers of surveillance-ware, have seen 400GB of their source codes and data leaked online. For more on this story and others please visit www.itsecurityguru.com @IT_SecGuru

Attackers are reportedly carrying out DDoS attacks by using version one of the routing information protocol. More on this story and others at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

Ryan Ramminger, creator of an app called "Prized", has been fined $50,000 after the Federal Trade Commission revealed charges he had been using hidden malware within his app to "take control of the computing resources of consumers' mobile devices to mine for virtual currencies, such as Dogecoin, Litecoin and Quarkcoin." Customers were unaware of what was happening on their phones, however the terms of use of the app did specify that any code within it...

Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, has claimed 32 lives in a recent outbreak. Hackers are reportedly exploiting peoples' health concerns via a spear phishing attack. Researchers at Trend Micro found that a Japanese mass media company was targeted by the scam, which says it has an attachment claiming to provide information about the prevention of MERS. In reality, it was delivering a backdoor program. The attachment came in the form of a CHM file,...