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In today's news: Wild man of Infosec John McAfee was arrested in the US state of Tennessee over the weekend on charges of driving under the influence and unlawful possession of a firearm. More IT security news at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

In today's news: US firm Medial Informatics Engineering has been hacked, with criminals absconding with almost 4 million personal records. More IT Security news at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

WikiLeaks reveals documents showing alleged cyber-espionage operations of the NSA in Japan. @IT_SecGuru

In today's news: The Ukrainian government has been under covert attacks for the past 5 years from hackers utilising the Win32/Potao malware family. More IT security news at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

By Troy Gill, manager of security research at AppRiver Self-employment in the UK is currently at its highest level since records began according the Office of National Statistics, with 4.6 million people working for themselves. Many are preparing to make a tax payment on account ahead of the 31 July deadline. And that means phishers are casting their lines in the hope to catch one or two. The days before the deadline phishers will often...

Fred Touchette, manager of security research at AppRiver, gives advice for individuals and businesses on what a macro is, why they're a threat and what can be done about them. For more information, check out AppRiver's blog: www.blog.appriver.com @IT_SecGuru

Bromium Threat Report Identifies Security Risks of Popular Websites and Software News and entertainment websites unknowingly host more than 50 percent of malvertisments; Flash exploits increase 60 percent and ransomware increases 80 percent since 2014 Bromium®, Inc., the pioneer of threat isolation to prevent data breaches, today announced the publication of “Endpoint Exploitation Trends 1H 2015,” a Bromium Labs research report that analyzes the ongoing security risk of popular websites and software. The report highlights that...

In today's news: a new report from Cisco security has revealed that hackers have started to hide malicious codes in passages from Jane Austen's debut novel, Sense and Sensibility. More IT Security news at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

Jonathan French, security Analyst at AppRiver, explains to us just how the OPM breach actually happened, as well as how advanced it was and what the attacker(s) incentives were. For more information, check out AppRiver's blog: www.blog.appriver.com @IT_SecGuru

New offering integrates social sharing, big data analytics to power and scale crowd-sourced threat intelligence community   AlienVault™, the leading provider of Unified Security Management™ and crowd-sourced threat intelligence, today announced the general availability of an updated version of Open Threat Exchange (OTX), its open threat intelligence community that enables collaborative defense with actionable, community-powered threat data. The latest OTX offering, in beta since April 2015, is modeled on social sharing technologies, enabling security practitioners...