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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced it has stopped a fraudulent ICO, offering over 1000% returns. Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Business Insider

The City of LA has sued Uber, for failing to inform the public about a breach that occured 2 years ago. Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: OC Register

The High court has found an employer to be liable for actions by an employee, which resulted in data being leaked. Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Lexology

Banks and Finacial institutions around the world need to remain vigilant of the increased threat today's cyber attacks pose with SWIFT, the international bank transfer system, leading the warning call. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Silicon

2018 is predicted to be just as bad in terms of malware related cyber attacks according to the latest McAfee Labs 2018 Threats Predictions Report. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Business Today

The third quarter 2017 State of the Internet Security Report by Akamai Technologies has revealed an increase in web application attacks by 30%. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: RCR Wireless

The latest rise in Bitcoin popularity has and will attract unwanted attention from cyberattackers warns security industry. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC

Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky has fired back at accusations that his company's software was used to carry out spying for the Russian government, and said that if the Kremlin did ask the security firm to do anything wrong, he'd take the company out of the country. Reports have linked the use of Kaspersky software with the theft of NSA hacking tools, and in September, the US government banned all federal agencies from using Kaspersky software over concerns about...

Apple has emitted an emergency software patch to address the trivial to exploit vulnerability in macOS High Sierra, version 10.13.1, that allowed miscreants to log into Macs as administrators without passwords and let any app gain root privileges. The Cupertino iPhone giant kicked out the fix, Security Update 2017-001, today after word of the bug and methods to exploit it ran wild over the internet. It was discussed on Apple's developer support forums two weeks ago, and hit...

Uber has finally come up with a figure for the number of UK-based riders and drivers affected by its massive data breach: 2.7 million. The taxi hire firm has been slammed by regulators around the world for keeping the hack, which happened in October 2016, quiet for the best part of a year. To make matters worse, when it eventually 'fessed up, Uber was unable to give regulators a nation-level breakdown of the 57 million affected users for...