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A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison for hacking computers that disrupted operations at municipal water utilities. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Water Online

Servers and infrastructure belonging to Intellect Service, the company behind the M.E.Doc accounting software, were grossly mismanaged, being left without updates since 2013, and getting backdoored on three separate occasions during the past three months. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BleepingComputer

UK firms were hit by a 52% increase in cyber-attacks in Q2 compared to the first three months of the year, with corporate databases increasingly targeted, according to the latest stats from Beaming. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine

But it does cause a disproportionate amount of damage for the size of the threat. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

This version of Cryptomix was discovered today by security researcher MalwareHunterTeam right as a decryptor for the previous version, Mole02, was released. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BleepingComputer

On Wednesday, PwC released a report that ranked global cities on how well they are positioned to adopt new technologies. Here are the results. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Techrepublic

Ukraine is still trying to find its feet after scores or even hundreds of businesses and government agencies were hit by an explosion of data-scrambling software on June 27. In a Facebook post , Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said there was a second stage to that attack, timed to hit its peak at 4 p.m. in Ukraine on July 4. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Apnews

The perpetrators of a recent cyber-attack that disrupted businesses across the world appear to have accessed the ransom payments they raised. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC Tech

Whoever is in control of the NotPetya bitcoin wallet has moved around $10,000 of funds, and a mysterious group has offered to unlock all of the ransomed files. Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Motherboard

Jack Chappell, an 18-year-old student from Stockport, UK, has been charged over his alleged role in the operation of a service used by cybercriminals to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against several major organizations.   Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Security Week