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It appears that appeals for clemency have come to naught after the UK Home Office confirmed that the extradition order for Lauri Love has been signed off by Home Secretary Amber Rudd. Love is facing charges that he was part of #OpLastResort, which stole large amounts of data from targets like the US Federal Reserve, the Department of Defense, NASA, and the FBI between 2012 and 2013. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Hackers boasted of thefts from Tesco Bank months before the company reported losing £2.5m in an attack. Cybersecurity company Cyberint said it had discovered posts on a variety of dark web forums whose members had described the lender as being a "cash milking cow" and "easy to cash out". It is not clear, however, whether there is any link between these claims and the money stolen just over a week ago. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC

Apple's claims that opening up access to the NFC chips in its iPhones would compromise the device's security are unfounded, three of Australia's biggest banks say. Westpac, NAB, and the Commonwealth Bank, alongside Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, are currently lobbying the ACCC to let them join forces to pressure Apple into providing access to its NFC chips so they can offer their own mobile wallets on the iPhone. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IT News

Forty-two percent of 10-year-olds believe they have the skills to hide what they've been doing online from parents. By age 13, this figure rises to 70 percent. New research by Kaspersky Lab reveals that children as young as 10 actively attempt to hide their cyber-lives and circumnavigate the rules set by their parents to govern internet use in the home today. One thousand children between the ages of 10 and 15 were polled. View full...

Adult dating and entertainment company FriendFinder Networks has reportedly been hacked in a massive data breach exposing more than 412 million accounts and user credentials collected over two decades. According to Leaked Source, the breach is believed to have occurred in October with email addresses and passwords from six adult-oriented FriendFinder Networks websites dumped online. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

The European Commission has asked the United States about a secret court order Yahoo <YHOO.O> used to scan thousands of customer emails for possible terrorism links, following concerns that may have violated a new data transfer pact. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Business Insider

The US Army has announced the launch of its first bug bounty programme called "Hack the Army", offering rewards to hackers who find security vulnerabilities in its digital recruiting infrastructure. Announced at a press conference in Texas on Friday (11 November), the programme comes after the successful inaugural Hack the Pentagon bug bounty programme in April. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

Global recruitment giant PageGroup says a hacker infiltrated its network and accessed job applicants' personal information. The miscreant broke into a development system run by IT outsourcer Capgemini for PageGroup, and was able to look up job hunters' names, email addresses, hashed passwords and more. UK-headquartered PageGroup and Capgemini both told The Register they believe the miscreant who slipped into its system had no malicious intent. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Facebook is reportedly buying stolen passwords that hackers are selling on the underground black market in an effort to keep its users' accounts safe. On the one hand, we just came know that Yahoo did not inform its users of the recently disclosed major 2014 hacking incident that exposed half a billion user accounts even after being aware of the hack in 2014. On the other hand, Facebook takes every single measure to protect its...

With half of America celebrating the victory of the Republicans and President-elect Trump, and the other half mourning the result, a targeted phishing campaign engulfed various US think tanks and NGOs the week. Security firm Volexity spotted the attack, which began around six hours after the President-elect clinched the necessary electoral votes. The phishing emails were sent using a mix of Gmail accounts and from compromised email accounts at Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences...