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The personal details of 2.5 million PlayStation and Xbox users have been exposed following a hack on two popular gaming forums. The 'XBOX360 ISO' and 'PSP ISO' forums, places where gamers were provided with links to free downloads of games for each console, breached by hackers in 2015, but details of the hack have only just come to light.  According to security researcher Troy Hunt, who owns the website 'Have I Been Pwned', the compromised...

The Czech Republic has suffered a damaging security breach after hackersinfiltrated the emails of dozens of its most senior diplomats in a massive cyber-attack thought to have been carried out by Russia. Lubomír Zaorálek, the country’s foreign minister, admitted that his own email account had been breached in a “sophisticated” operation he compared to the onslaught against the Democratic party in the recent US presidential election. The hack was detected by cyber-experts at the Czech foreign ministry this...

Santa Rosa-based internet service provider Sonic is suffering from a distributed denial of service attack that's causing connectivity problems for its customers in San Francisco, and elsewhere around the Bay Area. It’s unclear how widespread the outage is, but several San Francisco residents have tweeted that they are experiencing connectivity issues in Hayes Valley, the Lower Haight and the Richmond District, among other neighborhoods. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Hoodline

Staff are taking to the dark web to leak corporate secrets for cash, research reveals. Hackers from US-based risk management outfit RedOwl and Israeli threat intelligence firm IntSights worked their way past the interview process to access the private dark net property Kick Ass Marketplace, where they found evidence of staff selling internal corporate secrets to hackers. In some cases staff even collaborated with blackhats to infect their company networks with malware. Staff at an unnamed...

Research has shown that older people – particularly older women – are more susceptible to phishing scams. You may think our oldies are more suspicious of strangers, but that's sadly not the case. The study was presented at the Enigma 2017 conference by Daniela Oliveira, a professor in the department of computer engineering at the University of Florida. It involved 158 old and young participants who agreed to have a logger put on their PCs that recorded every...

In the past week, two security firms, Dr.Web and Emsisoft, suffered DDoS attacks at the hands of cyber-criminals who attempted to bring down their websites as payback for meddling with their illegal activities.The first attack hit Russian security firm Dr.Web, who revealed over the weekend that a DDoS attack hit its Russian and Ukrainian domains (drweb.ru & drweb.ua). According to the company, the attack arrived at a rate that ranged between 200,000 to 500,000 packets...

Europol and the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on decreasing systemic cyber-risk and improving internet security throughout Europe and beyond. As part of the MoU, Europol and GCA will fight cyber-crime through the exchange of information on cyber-crime trends and joint international projects to increase cyber-security. To this end, the two organisations will partner to offer best practice recommendations that help organisations secure their networks and domains through the Internet Immunity project....

Demand for cyber security skills in the UK means that salaries for full time IT security jobs are increasing faster than contractor rates, according to a new survey. Annual IT security permanent salaries climbed by 5 per cent (from Q4 2015 to Q4 2016) to £57,706, compared to a 0.62 per cent increase for contractor day rates (up to £484) over the same period, according to tech recruiting firm Experis. Experis reports that annual demand...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on cyber security on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said, marking the first action to address what he has called a top priority of his administration. The order is expected to commission several different reviews of the government's offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, according to one of the sources and a third briefed on a draft of the order that circulated last week....

EA Sports appears to be suffering a major outage, with gamers all over the world complaining they are unable to play titles such as Fifa, Madden and Battlefield. The website Down Detector, which tracks major network outages, reports that EA has been having issues since 08:52 GMT. Outage Report also reported a spike in people claiming they are unable to access the online gaming platform. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Mirror