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During the 2016 presidential election campaign, we reported about how insecure was the mail servers operated by the Trump organization that anyone with little knowledge of computers can expose almost everything about Trump and his campaign. Now, some unknown hackers calling themselves "Pro_Mast3r" managed to deface an official website associated with President Donald Trump's presidential campaign fundraising on Sunday. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Hacker News

A German privacy watchdog is urging parents to destroy My Friend Cayla, a doll which has a knack for collecting private information about its owner. Germany's Federal Network Agency, which is known as "Bundesnetzagentur," issued the warning after a student named Stefan Hessel raised the alarm about Cayla and her devious ways. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Graham Cluley

Suspected Russian cyberattacks on the French presidential campaign are "unacceptable", France's foreign minister said Sunday, adding it was clear that pro-Europe candidate Emmanuel Macron was being targeted. A spokesman for Macron, who is currently riding high in the polls, has accused Moscow of being behind a flurry of cyberattacks on his campaign website and email servers over the past month. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: France 24

Be wary of Android connected car apps. As cool as it can be to have an app that makes your smartphone a remote control for your car or truck, the same app could be hacked to let thieves enter your car. That’s the message from researchers at Kaspersky, a Russian security company, according to a report by Wired. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Digital Trends

Google security engineers have once again made details of a vulnerability in Microsoft's software public, before Microsoft has been able to roll out a patch. Windows users and system administrators around the world have become accustomed to Microsoft releasing important security patches for its wide variety of products on the second Tuesday of every month, regular as clockwork. This month, however, something went wrong. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Graham Cluley

Apple has long prided itself on being less vulnerable to viruses and other malware - but this could be about to change. Security firm Bitdefender Labs has found evidence of malware designed for Macs created by the same group thought to be behind the Hillary Clinton email leaks. The malware is by APT28, a hacking group with alleged links to the Russian intelligence services. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Daily Mail

According to a recent analysis by patient protection analysis experts at Protenus, insiders committed 58.4 percent of patient health record privacy violations in January 2017 — a figure well above the 43 percent for all of 2016. While external hacking of medical records garnered most of the attention last year, insider violations are a much bigger problem. Another concern is that hospitals are often exceeding the 60-day period required by the government to report such breaches....

Being an expensive thing, a car requires an approach to security that is no less meticulous than that of a bank account. Yet, car manufacturers are infinitely more interested in providing car-controlling apps with features that will make the connected car owners’ life easier than providing them with good security, Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered. They have tested seven proprietary Android apps by different car manufacturers or third-party developers employed by them, and looked for...

The government's new approach to working with cyber security suppliers is bringing a shift in responsibility and risk to the private sector. Theresa May’s government has a habit of doing things quietly, which is a step away from the kind of rule-by-press-release we have seen in the past. While the new regime might be frustrating for Westminster journalists, it means you have to look a bit harder to see where policy changes are coming from....

A hacker tied to the November 2016 penetration of the US Election Assistance Commission and subsequent database sale has successfully targeted 60+ government agencies and universities by leveraging the same attack method: SQL injection. According to a report by Recorded Future, whose researchers scour the dark web for threat intelligence, the hacker uses a proprietary SQLi tool to gain access to the targets’ databases and then sells access to them to other cyber crooks. The...