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Iran is ready to hit back at Donald Trump’s reimposition of US sanctions with cyber strikes, according to security experts who pointed to an increase in chatter related to the threat. The risk of a cyber offensive has been growing ever since the US president withdrew in May from the 2015 deal, under which world powers relaxed economic sanctions in exchange for restrictions on Iran's nuclear programme. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Telegraph

UK police are looking to cybersecurity firms to help implement a strategy of steering youngsters away from a life in online crime. The National Crime Agency's Prevent campaign sits within the wider five-year UK National Cyber Security Strategy of 2016-2021. The NCA's scheme aims to point teenagers towards careers in cyber security rather than following a path that may lead them towards more serious offending. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Telegraph

More than 33 billion records will be stolen by cyber criminals in 2023 alone, despite data protection laws mandating strong measures to protect personal and financial data, a study has found. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computer Weekly

Booby-trapped image data sent by fax can let malicious hackers sneak into corporate networks, security researchers have found. Since many companies use fax machines that are also printers and photocopiers, they often have a connection to the internal network. The malicious images exploit protocols established in the 1980s that define the format of fax messages. The research was presented at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC

Rob Joyce, the former head of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations hacking team, has spilled the beans on which nations are getting up to mischief online. Joyce gave one of the first talks at the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas and interest was intense - the lines to get in stretched around the hall. Joyce congratulated the crowd on their work in hacking systems to make them safer but warned tougher times were to...

Security researchers have analyzed malware samples from threat actors associated with North Korea and discovered connections with tools from older unattributed campaigns. The research is spread over several months and connects a diverse range of operations from cyberespionage to financially-motivated campaigns. The campaigns analyzed by the researchers and a timeline of their release can be shown below. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

Education secretary Damian Hinds has called upon large technology firms to use tech to tackle some of the biggest issues in schools Damian Hinds, the UK’s education secretary, has urged the technology industry to help schools overcome common issues in the classroom. Although schools, universities and colleges choose the technology tools best suited to their needs and budgets, they are quite often ill equipped to do so, and could use the help of the industry...

Less than half of organisations base their cyber defences on strategic vulnerability assessments, and a third of these do the bare minimum to meet compliance requirements, a study shows A study of 2,100 organisations reveals a global divide in how organisations assess cyber risk, with less than half using strategicvulnerability assessments. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computer Weekly

GODADDY CUSTOMERS have been the victim of another big data leak, this time from the big-enough-to-know-better Amazon Web Services (AWS). Engadget reports that a new discovery from security analysts UpGuard shows that during June, 31,000 GoDaddy systems were left in multiple versions in a completely unsecured AWS S3 bucket. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Inquirer

A dozen people have been indicted in America for allegedly fencing more than $1m in smartphones and other kit obtained via hacking and fraud. Geoffrey Berman, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Angel Melendez, the Special Agent in charge of the New York Office of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations unit, on Thursday announced the charges, which cover fraud allegations from 2014 through the present. View...