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Lockheed Martin has contracted Guardtime Federal to provide blockchain cyber security, the defense company announced in a blog post. It's the first US defense contractor to adopt blockchain as part of its security approach and Lockheed Martin says the partnership will allow it to "realize more efficient and secure software development and supply chain risk management." A blockchain is a type of secure database that maintains a constantly expanding list of records. Each record, or...

It "could've been China," President Trump told an interviewer who asked about the hack into the 2016 presidential election. In an interview that aired on Sunday with John Dickerson, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News and host of Face the Nation, Trump said it was "very hard" to ascribe blame into the incursions into the American campaigns without catching the hacker "in the act." When pressed by Dickerson whether the Russians tried to meddle in...

Amid a storm of criticism, a set of facial images built by scraping the Tinder dating service has been pulled from Kaggle. Developer Stuart Colianni had built the 40,000-strong set of “hoes” (the charming variable name* in his source code – more below in case that repo also dies) on the premise that facial datasets are generally too small to be useful. The Kaggle page where he published the dataset now returns a 404. The...

Millions of mobile gamers have been tricked into downloading game guides laced with malware. Dubbed FalseGuide, was hidden in more than 40 apps in the Google Play Store disguised as guides for hugely-popular mobile games, including Pokémon Go and FIFA Mobile. When smartphone players downloaded the fraudulent game guide to their Android phone – the app would install malware and create a "silent botnet" out of the infected devices. This allowed hackers to harness the...

Apple revoked a legitimate developer certificate used by hackers behind malware dubbed OSX/Dok, which was able to eavesdrop on secure HTTPS traffic of infected systems. On Sunday, Apple also rolled out an update to its XProtect built-in antimalware software to fend off existing and upcoming OSX/Dok-type attacks. OSX/Dok was reported by Check Point last week. According to researchers, an infected system allowed a malicious third party to gain “complete access to all victim communication” including...

Facebook has been accused of not cooperating with British police and security services after figures showed that that it turned down one in five emergency requests about social media users. Numbers from the social media giant showed that in the second half of 2016, it received nearly 1,000 police requests in which there was grounds to believe that the matter involved an "imminent risk of serious physical injury".The Telegraph reported that it provided information in...

The UK is likely to face a level-1 cyber attack at some point in the future, according to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computer Weekly

A recent This is Money investigation found that one victim from London lost £22,300 when fraudsters raided their Santander accounts using this method. Another two victims had £19,500 drained from their Santander accounts after criminals intercepted the bank's text messages. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ActionFraud

A spread sheet listing about 8,000 customers, along with their transaction and a range of personal information, was posted for an unknown amount of time, on a Home Depot web site. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: AJC

When the Justice Department announced the arrest last month of a man who allegedly swindled more than $100 million from two U.S. tech giants, the news came wrapped in a mystery. The agency didn’t say who was robbed, and nor did it identify the Asian supplier the crook impersonated to pull off the scheme. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Fortune