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An obsession with retro clothing, cameras and luggage lingers across the UK, as an appetite for all things vintage shows little sign of fading. Hackers and script kiddies increasingly seem to be of the same opinion: aging technology with a patina of wear is better than shiny new objects. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CBR

Human beings have long been the weakest link in an organization’s security chain, largely because they so often fall victim to phishing campaigns, and a new report from Mimecast, State of Email Security 2018, found that attackers continue to target end users with email-based attacks. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine

Hackers working for Russia were able to gain access to the control rooms of US electric utilities last year, allowing them to cause blackouts, federal officials tell the Wall Street Journal. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CNET

Concern about ransomware is declining as the number of victims decreases in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, research by Barracuda Networks has revealed. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computer Weekly

Hackers used phishing emails to break into a Virginia bank in two separate cyber intrusions over an eight-month period, making off with more than $2.4 million total. Now the financial institution is suing its insurance provider for refusing to fully cover the losses. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Krebs on Security

The idea of a computer program learning by itself, growing in knowledge and becoming increasingly sophisticated may be a scary one. It's even scarier when it's learning to attack things. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CNBC

Have you noticed your Android device has been slower and riddled with annoying pop-ups lately? You might have contracted malware that made its way onto your phone through the Google Play Store. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Next Gov

A cryptographic bug affects the Bluetooth implementations and operating system drivers of Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm, and possibly other hardware vendors. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

One company, however, seems to have solved the phishing problem: Google. And it's all because of a $20 gadget called a security key, which Google requires its employees to use. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Business Insider

Even with some well-publicized ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations this year, such as Allscripts and LabCorp, healthcare ransomware attacks are on the decline, according to the latest analysis by cybersecurity firm Cryptonite. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Health IT Security