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Polling stations in the swing US state of North Carolina will stay open late after mystery glitches stopped electronic voting systems from working. The board of elections in the political battleground voted within the past hour or so to allow eight precincts in Durham and Columbus counties to stay open past the previously scheduled closing time for periods ranging from 20 to 60 minutes.  Earlier in the day, groups watching the elections had filed suit with the...

Residents in two apartment buildings in the Finnish town of Lappeenranta had a chill-out lasting more than a week after a DDoS attack battered unprotected building management systems. The apartments are managed by a company called Valtia. The attack blocked the building management systems' Internet connections, according to English language news outlet Metropolitan.fi. View full story Original source: The Register

Here's a fun fact on the eve of perhaps the most contentious election in recent American history: It's totally possible to hack a voting machine and alter its final tally. Cylance, a cybersecurity firm, demonstrated a hack against a Sequoia AVC Edge Mk1 machine in a video released Friday. (You can watch it above.) The Sequoia machine uses individual flash memory cards to record votes, which are then stored in the device's internal memory and a "Results...

Tesco Bank blocked all its current account customers from online shopping amid fears it had fallen victim to Russian hackers . The lender imposed the temporary freeze on Sunday after what experts described as the “most serious” cyber attack to ever hit a UK bank. Tesco Bank, part of the supermarket giant, said it had spotted suspicious activity on 40,000 of its 136,000 current accounts. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Daily Mirror

Cybersecurity professionals say it is pretty simple to sort through 650,000 emails in eight days or less despite criticism from Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump and his supporters. On Sunday, hours after Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey provided his latest update from Congress concerning the Clinton email scandal, Trump said, “You can't review 650,000 emails in eight days,” during a campaign speech in Michigan. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

An Android Chrome bug that's already under attack - with criminals pushing banking trojans to more than 300,000 devices - won't get patched until the next release of the mobile browser. The flaw allows malware writers to quietly download Android app installation (.apk) files to devices without requiring approval. Users need to install the banking trojan apps and tweak settings to allow installation of apps from stores other than Google Playto be infected; however, attackers...

Netflix has reworked its password reset function after an Austrian security researcher demonstrated how an attacker could spoof it to take over a victim's account. Fortunately, the bug wasn't universal: it depended on the customer's mobile carrier being one that hasn't properly protected users' voicemail accounts from unauthorised access. In the scenario described here, a chap named “Slashcrypto” notes that in his home country, T-Mobile is one such carrier and a default voicemail configuration would leave...

Criminals behind the massive Cerber ransomware enterprise are now targeting businesses as well as individuals with a module that kills and encrypts databases, warns Intel's former security arm McAfee. Cerber had conducted more than 160 campaigns when examined in July targeting 150,0000 users and raking in a cracking US$195,000 in profits in that month alone. Of that figure, Cerber's developer pocketed some US$78,000. View full story Original source: The Register

An Arizona man has been arrested for hacking 1050 email accounts at two united States universities, plus attempts to do so at some 75 other educational institutions. Jonathan Powell, 29, is alleged to have used password reset features to change logins for some 1050 accounts at the universities before breaching connected social media accounts for the likes of Facebook, LinkedIn and Google. Reuters reports Powell searched email accounts for embarassing content using keywords 'horny' and...

Tech support fraudsters have taught an old denial of service bug new tricks to add a convincing layer of authenticity to scams. The HTML5 bug allows sites to chew up a mountain of processor capacity, causing browsers to hang. Scammers deploy the few lines of code needed to trigger the bug, hang browsers and then display a screen that says malware has been detected. View full story Original source: The Register