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For the third time this year, Mark Zuckerberg has had one of his social media accounts hacked. Members of the hacking group OurMine are once again claiming credit for the attack. Their target this time: Zuckerberg’s Pinterest account. This is the second time they’ve broken in. OurMine first hacked Zuckerberg back in June, gaining access to both his Twitter account and that same Pinterest account. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Forbes

Some of the biggest banks in the US are beginning to gather billions of pieces of data on how consumers interact with their mobile devices, ahead of the launch of a person-to-person payment service designed to challenge the likes of PayPal. Last month a bank-owned consortium announced the launch of Zelle, a new service that allows customers to use their phones and tablets to zap money from their bank accounts to accounts elsewhere. Zelle will go head-to-head with...

A Sky News investigation has discovered the NHS trusts putting patients at risk by not protecting their data online. Seven NHS trusts, serving more than two million people, spent nothing on cybersecurity in 2015. Sky News worked with security experts to find serious flaws in their cybersecurity, which could be easily exploited by relatively unskilled hackers. Hacker House was able to find misconfigured email servers, outdated software and security certificates, along with NHS trusts' emails...

Large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise, with attacks greater than 100 Gbps seeing a 138% increase over the past year, according to a new report. Akamai's State of the Internet / Security Report for Q3 2016 was released on Tuesday, and it explains the reasons for the uptick in DDoS attacks. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Republic

Like most other global banks, Barclays has faced challenges in adapting to modern digital banking. Most banks still operate on mainframes, which means that there is a single point of failure and any sort of glitch or outage can leave customers without access to their services for hours, if not days. Last year Barclays made the headlines with two outages, which caused its customers problems. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Diginomica

A newly discovered form of ransomware scrapes the social media accounts and local files of victims in order to tailor a customised demand, and threatens court action if it isn't paid. Dubbed 'Ransoc' by cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint due to its connection with social media including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Skype, this ransomware represents yet another evolution of the malicious software which has boomed during 2016. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

A 17 year old hacker has admitted offences related to the massive data breach at TalkTalk last year. According to the BBC, the boy told Norwich Youth Court he was just “showing off” and used tool software to identify vulnerabilities on the TalkTalk website. He pleaded guilty to seven charges under the computer Misuse Act and will be sentenced on 13 December. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: TechWeekEurope

Just in time for the holidays, a brand new POS malware family has been discovered. Morphick responded to a Kronos phishing campaign that involved a document with a malicious macro that downloaded the Kronos banking malware.  When running, the Kronos payload will download several other pieces of malware, but the one that caught our eye is a new credit card dumper with very low detection.  Morphick is tracking this malware under the name ScanPOS due...

WhatsApp has introduced a new security feature that fixes a loophole in the popular messaging platform, which if exploited, could allow an attacker to hijack victim's account with just knowing the victim's phone number and some hacking skills. The attack does not exploit any vulnerability in WhatsApp; instead, it relies on the way the account setup mechanism works. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Hacker News

Facebook Inc. on Monday banned fake news sites from using the company’s advertising network to generate revenue, a Facebook spokesman said, following a similar move by its rival Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The move adds fake news sites to the category of misleading, illegal and deceptive sites, which are already barred from using the Facebook Audience Network, the spokesman said. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Wall Street Journal