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North Atlantic alliance is moving cyber into the domain of the military, alongside land, sea, and air capabilities. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty which states an attack on one NATO member is considered an attack on all, is being extended into the realm of cyber warfare. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the collective defence articles could be invoked in the face of a cyber attack. View Full...

A new Fugue survey, fielded to over 300 IT operations professionals, executives, and developers, found that most respondents believe that the cloud is not living up to expectations because of compliance and security concerns, unexpected downstream costs, and the glut of cloud management tools available in the market. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security

The NotPetya ransomware that encrypted and locked thousands of computers across the globe yesterday and today is, in reality, a disk wiper meant to sabotage and destroy computers, and not ransomware. This is the conclusion of two separate reports coming from Comae Technologies and Kaspersky Lab experts. Experts say that NotPetya — also known as Petya, Petna, ExPetr — operates like a ransomware, but clues hidden in its source code reveal that users will never...

The Greater London Authority fears the Metropolitan Police is vulnerable to cyber attacks after figures reveal more than 18,000 devices in the force still run on Windows XP. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) still uses Windows XP on more than 18,000 computers, putting the force at risk of cyber attacks,  the Greater London Authority (GLA) has been warned. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computer Weekly

A new HackerOne report examines over 800 hacker-powered programs from organizations including Airbnb, GitHub, General Motors, Intel, Lufthansa, Nintendo, U.S. Department of Defense, Uber, and more. Findings are based on nearly 50,000 resolved security vulnerabilities and more than $17 million in bounties awarded. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security

Tens of thousands of developers using weak credentials to secure their npm accounts inadvertently put more than half of the npm packages (JavaScript libraries and tools) at risk of getting hijacked and used to deploy malicious code to legitimate applications that use them in their build process. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

KB Kookmin Bank, Shinhan Bank, Woori Bank, KEB Hana Bank, NH Bank and two other South Korean banks were reportedly threatened with DDoS attacks last week.  The Armada Collective hacking group has issued a ransom demand of approximately £245,700 to seven South Korean banks, threatening to launch distributed denial of service attacks against each of their organisations. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

Security researchers have discovered a "vaccine" for the huge cyber-attack that hit organisations across the world on Tuesday. The creation of a single file can stop the attack from infecting a machine. However, researchers have not been able to find a so-called kill switch that would prevent the crippling ransomware from spreading to other vulnerable computers. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC

Some Intel CPU models are affected by a bug that crashes computers when a certain sequence of operations are being processed. The bug was discovered by a developer working on the OCaml compiler and was reported to Intel last year. Intel rolled out a fix for the issue in the form of a microcode errata in April and May 2017. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

UK car insurance giant the AA caused all sorts of confusion on Monday after accidentally sending out a "password update" email to people. The alert led to motorists rushing to log into the motoring organization's website to change their passwords, only to overload the servers and effectively run them over. Brits were furious after discovering that they couldn't access their profiles, fearing hackers had broken into their accounts and changed their passwords. View Full Story...