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Leaked images, price details and specs of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 have emerged hours before the high-end smartphone is due to be released. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Telegraph

Google has yet to remove two apps infected with dangerous malware that are currently still available for download via the official Google Play Store. View Full Story original source: Bleeping Computer

Identity theft is reaching "epidemic levels", according to a fraud prevention group, with people in their 30s the most targeted group. ID fraudsters obtain personal information before pretending to be that individual and apply for loans or store cards in their name. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC.co.uk

Online criminals are keeping the faith with http://www.itproportal.com/news/unsafe-emails-are-still-squeezing-through/, with more and more nuisance messages being sent today than ever before. Figures from IBM have shown that spam email remains a key tool for hackers, with the volume of such messages increasing 400 per cent in the past year. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ITProPortal

A Ukrainian author of malware who built the PAS Web shell- a PHP based imbed used to remotely execute commands on hacked systems - has turned himself in to Ukrainian authorities. He has been cooperating with the probe by Federal Bureau of Investigation into the seeming Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SpamFighter

Research published last week reveals that cookies and other data collected by ad trackers on e-commerce sites can be used to de-anonymize Bitcoin transactions. The idea is that despite how careful users are to hide their identity behind a random Bitcoin address when purchasing products, the same assumption of privacy and anonymity cannot be expected from the online platform where the transaction takes place. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

Automobiles today have powerful computers interacting with one another, receiving volumes of data from a complex network of sensors. As the industry is moving to more automated driving, more powerful computers are added to the mix for real time vision processing. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Information Age

The hackers who compromised HBO’s network systems in July have threatened to leak the final two episodes of Game of Thrones. The “Mr Smith group” of hackers told tech site Mashable that it has access to “many HBO platforms” and that HBO should be “ready” for the leak of episode six, which aired on Sunday, and episode seven of its biggest hit immediately ahead of the show’s finale at the end of the week. View Full Story...

Moscow-based cybersecurity provider, Kaspersky detected an Android Malware FakeToken which is creating a serious security threat to all the users who are registered in Android cab-hailing applications by stealing their information, calls, and texts. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Facts Live

More than 100 leading robotics experts are urging the United Nations to take action in order to prevent the development of "killer robots".In a letter to the organisation, artificial intelligence (AI) leaders, including billionaire Elon Musk, warn of "a third revolution in warfare". View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC.co.uk