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Doubts have been cast over claims that hacktivists have taken control of neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer. Elements of the loose hacker collective Anonymous supposedly took control of the site as a reprisal for the death of anti-racist protestor Heather Heyer after she was struck by a car during protests by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. According to the most recent "post" on the site, the hackers were ostensibly threatening to dox the Daily Stormer's...

The US Defense Intelligence Agency has vowed to capture enemy malware, study and customize it, and then turn the software nasties on their creators. Speaking at the US Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) conference in Missouri on Monday, the head of the agency Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart told attendees that the US was tired of just taking hits from outside players, can so it was planning to strike back. View Full Story ORIGINAL...

Lockton report shows half of UK businesses expect to be entirely operational 48 hours after a large-scale cyber security breach. A report by Lockton has revealed that UK businesses are severely “unprepared for a cyber shock”. The broker found – in the study that polled 200 chief financial officers, chief risk officers and chief information officers as well as directors of risk and general legal counsel – that 50% expect to be entirely operational 48 hours after...

Taipei-based securities firm Taishin had some unhappy customers this morning as its services were temporarily downed by a cyberattack — the second one this year. The DDoS attack targeted the electronic trading systems of Taishin as well as its subsidiary Ta Chong Securities, also putting the firm's telephone trading service out of commission in the process. Taishin's system went down at 8:54 a.m., Apple Daily quoted a reader as saying, while Ta Chong's service went down at...

In what could possibly be a sci-fi plot in a movie is now a reality, as researchers hack a computer using synthetic DNA. A research team at the University of Washington revealed hackers were able to encode malware into a short strand of DNA. They programmed the virus to launch on its own when run through the DNA sequencing system, which it enabled it to take control of the computer, where it can read future DNA sequences...

Anonymous have taken over the world’s most notorious Nazi website, following clashes with white nationalists over the weekend that left one anti-fascist protestor dead. A post on the site attributed to the hacking group said that the site was now under its control and that it would stop it posting “putrid hate”. It also suggested that it will release data that had been taken as part of the attack, as well as suggesting it could...

The hacktivist collective Anonymous has reportedly claimed responsibility for shutting down the Charlottesville city website. The hacker group reportedly launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, shortly after a hit and run incident in the city, that claimed the life of 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injured at least 19 others. The DDoS attack, launched under a new banner, dubbed #OpDomesticTerrorism, was allegedly launched to protest the hit and run incident, which involved a group of activists protesting a white supremacist...

The numbers of online shops hit by serious losses of customer data has doubled in the past year as hackers try to plunder retails sites for valuable personal details, a law firm has warned. Customers are increasingly at risk as retailers amass ever growing collections of their shoppers’ personal information. Online shopping, digital marketing and loyalty schemes mean shoppers submit more and more information to retailers that is of value to cyber criminals. View Story...

Hackers have flooded Android app stores, including the official Google Play store, with over 1,000 spyware apps, which have the capability to monitor almost every action on an infected device. Dubbed SonicSpy, the malware can silently record calls and audio, take photos, make calls, send text messages to numbers specified by the attackers, and monitor calls logs, contacts, and information about wi-fi access points. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZD Net

Earlier this week, Adobe patched a vulnerability in Flash Player that allows an attacker to use malicious Flash files to leak Windows credentials. The security issue is tracked under the CVE-2017-3085 identifier and affects Flash Player versions from 23.0.0.162 up to 26.0.0.137, running on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.x, and 10. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer