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Israeli television news programs were briefly hacked, with images promoting Islam and a message suggesting a recent wave of fires was divine retribution shown in their place. Tuesday night’s incident came ahead of an expected vote in the Knesset on a bill to prevent the use of loudspeakers for all religious purposes, which would in effect outlaw their use in mosques. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Times of Israel

Names and telephone numbers of suspects in terrorism probes carried out by the EU police agency Europol have been posted online by accident. The Hague-based agency, which coordinates police efforts across the EU, told this website on Wednesday (30 November) that an ex-staff member had taken the data home in contravention of security protocols. "The concerned former staff member, who is an experienced police officer from a national authority, uploaded Europol data to a private...

An insecure web server embedded in more than 35 models of internet-connected CCTV cameras leaves countless devices wide open to hijacking, it is claimed. The gadgets can be commandeered from the other side of the world with a single HTTP GET request before any password authentication checks take place, we're told. If your camera is one of the at-risk devices, and it can be reached on the web, then it can be attacked, infected with...

In 2016, drone technology entered the mainstream and can now be used for aerial photography, media filming, law enforcement surveillance and – if the promises from pioneering digital giants like Amazon come to fruition – home deliveries. Yet as more of these small flying devices take to the skies, cybersecurity experts are warning that they will inevitably become an open target for hackers. In what is being dubbed as "dronejacking", experts say cybercriminals are likely...

The inventor of the World Wide Web has issued a stinging criticism of new surveillance legislation that has just become law in the UK, saying it "undermines our fundamental rights online" and has been rushed through by MPs who do not understand how intrusive it will be. Sir Tim Berners-Lee said parts of The Investigatory Powers Bill are "disproportionate" and that people's rights to freedom are curtailed if police and security services have increased snooping...

Fifteen former staff members of a Watergate-era intelligence watchdog committee have jointly written to President Barack Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch urging them to extend leniency to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Signed by a group of members of the Church committee, a special Senate body that investigated illegal governmental operations by the CIA and other intelligence agencies in the 1970s, the letter calls on Obama to resolve the "Snowden matter" and end his "untenable...

About 26,500 National Lottery accounts are feared to have been hacked, according to its operator Camelot. The firm said it did not believe its own systems had been compromised, but rather that the players' login details had been stolen from elsewhere. The company said that no money had been taken from or added to the compromised accounts. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC

Amazon customers are being urged to keep their wits about them in the run-up to the festive season following reports of a new scam targeting shoppers. Fraudsters have been tricking Amazon customers into purchasing Amazon gift cards and then sending the codes as "payment" for goods that never turn up. Amazon, meanwhile, appears unable to step in on the issue. Amazon is currently stepping up attempts to fight fraud on its online superstore, where it's...

Netflix is testing a new feature that, for some subscribers, shows their passwords in plain text as they are typed in – and potentially when folks revisit the site. The temporary design tweak, which Netflix says is supposed to help fat-fingered users correctly enter their passwords, does not star out characters as they are typed in. This change may not be rolled out to everyone, though. "Netflix is currently testing removing password masking to assist...

Ransomware continues to evolve and it is becoming more and more of a challenge for the general public to stay shielded from such threats and security experts to stay on top of the evolving strains of ransomware being found in the wild. It is not just the malicious code itself, however, which is a problem. Now, support scammers are taking tips from ransomware developers to make their own fraudulent schemes more sophisticated and successful. View...