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Over the past weeks, security researchers from Sucuri and Malwarebytes have discovered two campaigns that abuse hacked and fake websites to push Google ads and trick users into clicking these advertisments, for the crooks profits. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

The derelict walls once throbbed with all the excitement and pressures of wartime Britain. They were — and still are — a part of Bletchley Park, home to the country's famed codebreakers during the Second World War. Now the building is being called out of retirement, slated to house a brand new generation of codebreakers at the U.K.'s first ever National College of Cybersecurity. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CBC

While economic inequality, societal polarization and intensifying environmental dangers were identified as some of the top risk trends in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report for 2017, ahead of the meeting in Davos next week, the increase in artificial intelligence, robotics and a lack of governance was ranked as the third greatest risk, particularly with society not keeping pace with technological change. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine

F5 Networks have published the results of its 2017 State of Application Delivery report. The global customer survey shows accelerating cloud adoption is creating increased demand for security application services including WAF, DNSSEC, and DDoS protection. As an increase in application services often requires additional resources, respondents also indicated a shift toward DevOps methodologies to gain operational efficiencies through automation and programmability. This need for scalability replaces speed to market as the prime driver of...

The ICO has fined Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance PLC (RSA) £150,000 following the loss of the personal information of nearly 60,000 customers. An ICO investigation looked at the theft of a hard drive device containing 59,592 customers’ names, addresses and bank account details including account numbers and sort codes. The device also held limited credit card details of 20,000 customers, although CVC numbers and expiry dates were not affected. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Databreaches.net

A cache of data including 3.3 million user credentials belonging to Hello Kitty parent company Sanrio surfaced over the weekend. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Threatpost

Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday for the year proved lighter than usual with the company rolling out four security bulletins today that cover just four potential exploits, two of which are rated critical. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

A new ransomware family made its presence felt today, named Spora, the Russian word for "spore." This new ransomware's most notable features are its solid encryption routine, ability to work offline, and a very well put together ransom payment site, which is the most sophisticated we've seen from ransomware authors as of yet. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

There's a new variant of the Shamoon disk-wiping malware that was originally unleashed on Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company in 2012, and it has a newly added ability to destroy virtual desktops, researchers said. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Ars Technica

"A newly registered scam website targeting Mac users was making the rounds late last year. Simply visiting the malicious site on an older version of macOS would start creating a series of email drafts, which eventually cause the machine to run out of memory and freeze," said, MalwareByte's Jerome Segura. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computing