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Cybercriminals are always seeking new ways to convince their victims to load websites or download malicious files, and this time they have turned to Microsoft services to make links look legitimate. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Softpedia

The FBI hacked into more than 8,000 computers in 120 different countries with just a single warrant during an investigation into a dark web child pornography website, according to a newly published court filings. This FBI's mass hacking campaign is related to the high-profile child pornography Playpen case and represents the largest law enforcement hacking campaign known to date. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Hacker News

The Madison Square Garden Company, which operates the popular self-named arena in New York City among other properties, has disclosed a data breach affecting its customers. Thieves stole credit and debit card information from customers of its concession stands over a year-long period, the company revealed on Tuesday. The cause of the breach has since been resolved, the company said. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Fortune

A group of renowned computer scientists and lawyers have urged Hillary Clinton to challenge the election results in three key states after they gathered "evidence" to suggest the election results were potentially manipulated. The group of activists, including voting rights lawyer John Bonifaz and J Alex Halderman, director of the University of Michigan's center for computer security and society, believe their evidence shows that results in these three battleground states - which lost Ms Clinton the election...

Numerous journalists and professors are taking to social media to report that they have received an alarming message regarding state-sponsored hacking when accessing their Gmail or other sites that use their Google account. Journalists who received the warning include Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, New York magazine's Jonathan Chait, Politico's Julia Ioffe, GQ's special correspondent Keith Olbermann, Vox's Ezra Klein, Yahoo News' Garance Franke-Ruta, and one of President Barack Obama's...

The U.S. Navy is warning more than 130,000 sailors of a data breach, after a laptop belonging to an employee of Navy contractor Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. was compromised. The Navy learned of the incident on Oct. 27 and determined on Tuesday that names and Social Security numbers of 134,386 current and former sailors were accessed by “unknown individuals,” the Navy said Wednesday in a statement. “We are in the early stages of investigating and are working quickly...

Bletchley Park, the site of secret code-deciphering projects during World War Two, could become the centre for a new generation of codemakers and codebreakers. There are plans for a training college to teach cybersecurity skills to 16-19 year olds at the Buckinghamshire site. Former Home Secretary Lord Reid said it had become vital to build up the "talent pool" for cyber-defence. The college in a wartime building at Bletchley is intended to open in 2018....

Cautious computer users put a piece of tape over their webcam. Truly paranoid ones worry about their devices’ microphones—some even crack open their computers and phones to disable or remove those audio components so they can’t be hijacked by hackers. Now one group of Israeli researchers has taken that game of spy-versus-spy paranoia a step further, with malware that converts your headphones into makeshift microphones that can slyly record your conversations. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE:...

A Facebook spam campaign has been found distributing Nemucod and Locky ransomware.  The campaign was discovered by security researchers Bart Blaze and Peter Kruse when the pair saw spam being distributed over the Facebook instant messaging system over the weekend of 19 November. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE:  SC Magazine

Customers of takeaway food app Deliveroo have had their accounts hacked and run up bills for food that they did not order, according to an investigation by the BBC's Watchdog programme. One user said that £200 was spent on burgers delivered to several addresses. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC