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In today's news: Government policy on surveillance has taken a new turn as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that there are some situations where they do not need a warrant to use cell site simulators - small devices that can identify mobile phone signals and place their general location. These cite simulators, known as stingrays, effectively pretend to be a phone tower, which get phones to communicate with it. Once this has...

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In today's news: Bank robbers have been using the sophisticated Dridex malware to steal from banks, having bagged themselves £20m in the UK alone. It is believed the robbers are operating internationally. The malware is believed to have been developed in Eastern Europe, which is why some sources are saying that is most likely where the robbers are. More IT Security News at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

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In today's news: Sanmay Ved bought Google.com for $12 - that's £8 - at the end of September. He immediately started getting emails which were clearly intended for the web admin staff at Google. Buying the domain on Google's own domain selling service, Mr Ved managed to buy and receive confirmation of his ownership of the domain, which lasted all but a minute. Google rewarded a cash bounty which it then doubled after Mr Ved...

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In today's news: Yet another company has been hit by a data breach, this time with the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, notifying their customers last week of a breach that may affect thousands. Dow Jones chief executive William Lewis issued a letter to customers on Friday, stating that the data from 3,500 individuals could have been accessed, although they are yet to discover any direct evidence that information was stolen....

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Cyber-criminals and hackers are increasingly attacking cloud infrastructure, which they see as a "fruit bearing jackpot" as more organisations are making use of the public cloud to store their data than ever before, a security company claims. While organisations are embracing the cloud, a report by security-as-a-service provider Alert Logic suggests that IT decision makers shouldn't assume that data they store off-premises is harder to acquire. The company warns there has been a 45% increase...

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In today's news: A digest of some of the big current issues in IT security. South Korea blames the North for hacking the subway system of Seoul and planting malicious code on employees' computers. Car hacking findings take deeper turn as companies announce research from the last year. Nuclear powers at major risk of hacking, Chatham House report claims. More on these stories and others at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

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In today's news: A story broke over the weekend about a malware called Wifatch - a router virus that is seeking out vulnerable devices and helping secure them! Being described as ethical malware or vigilante malware, what wifatch is doing is infecting thousands of routers and protecting them from more powerful, well known kinds of malware. It even tells hardware owners to change their telnet passwords or update their firmware. Remember, it is an infection...

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Experian - one of the largest data brokers and credit agencies in the world, who rather ironically offers advice to organisations should they suffer a breach - has confirmed it has itself been hacked, again! The company confirmed yesterday that 15 million people, including the customers of T-Mobile, who had applied for Experian credit checks, may have had their private information exposed. Speaking about the news, T-Mobile's CEO said he was 'incredibly angry'. I'd imagine...

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In today's news: Cyber criminals have once again targeted nations states, this time with the Thai government as the victim. News outlets are reporting this morning that several Thai government websites we hit by a suspected DDoS attack around 3pm GMT, or 10pm local time, yesterday. Websites were impossible to access for several hours, with the government restoring access by Thursday morning. Unlike ordinary DDoS attacks that are usually orchestrated by a particular program or...

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Kelly Brook has been named as the 'most dangerous celebrity on the internet' after websites relating to her were found to hide the most malware of any celebrity websites. Also included in the top 10 were Idris Elba, Victoria Beckham and Katie Price. Also in today's news, over 68,000 medical devices may have been hacked, according to two researchers. They found that false medical devices they created attracted thousands of hackers, showing that malicious online...

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