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Wikileaks has released new files part of the Vault 7 series it claims it obtained from the CIA. The files dumped online yesterday reveal details about the inner workings of a biometrics system developed by the CIA, and which the agency has provided to various liaison services, such as the DHS, FBI, and NSA. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

The government should create a digital academy to train specialist cyber-police officers, and increase the number of volunteers with these skills, according to a new report highlighting the current dearth of IT skills in the police force View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Info Security Magazine

Small convoys of partially driverless lorries will be tried out on major British roads by the end of next year, the government has announced.A contract has been awarded to the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) to carry out the tests of vehicle "platoons". View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC

You better stay on your toes when logging in to your account should you happen to be a client of Raiffeisen Bank – someone might be out to snatch your credentials. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE:  The Next Web

A hacking campaign is targeting large Vietnamese organizations—and is connected to the same party that previously targeted Vietnam Airlines back in 2016. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Info Security Magazine

After web hosting provider DreamHost pressed the U.S. government in superior court over a warrant to access more than 1.3 million IP records of a website, the Justice Department backed off its request and modified the warrant to narrow its scope. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

Imagine you’re in charge of technology and data for part of the UK’s chronically cash-squeezed National Health Service. A world-famous technology firm offers you a cool new service, either free or for very little money. All it wants in return is access to the patient data that will make the service work. What are you going to do? View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

After an 18-month legal battle with Germany's Baden-Würtenberg consumer rights center, Microsoft admitted to wrongdoing when it downloaded over 6GBs of data on user devices during its Windows 10 push in mid and late 2015. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

ElcomSoft, the Russia-based maker of forensic software, has managed to find a way to access the data stored in Apple's iCloud Keychain, if Apple ID account credentials are available. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

President Donald Trump is no stranger to criticism, seemingly always in the firing line of many a critic. Data centre provider Artmotion has today joined the critics, claiming that Trump’s stance on data privacy could hit the US cloud industry for more than $10 billion by 2020. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CBR Online