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Sven Olaf Kamphuis says he will not appear in court in Netherlands to face charges he arranged 2013 attack that slowed web traffic worldwide. A Dutchman accused of launching an unprecedented cyberattack that reportedly “almost broke the internet” goes on trial on Tuesday on charges of masterminding the 2013 incident that slowed web traffic worldwide. But Sven Olaf Kamphuis, 39, denounced the case against him, and told the AD daily newspaper in a Skype interview...

Certificate Authorities (CAs) play a key role in web security by issuing digital certificates to website operators. These certificates are trusted by browsers to authenticate secure connections to websites. CAs who issue certificates outside the policies required by browsers and industry bodies can put the security and privacy of every web user at risk. Google has determined that two CAs, WoSign and StartCom, have not maintained the high standards expected of CAs and will no...

As the world rushes headlong into taking all manner of devices and systems online, there are few opportunities to sit back and consider the consequences of these decisions. Australia had one such opportunity this week as a Senate inquiry heard testimony into how everything went wrong during Census night on August 9. As a multinational giant had its incompetence and fragility exposed -- and an almost AU$10 million contract turned into AU$30 million in remediation -- a discussion could...

IDC famously claims that the digital shadow of each human is already 45 Gigabytes and expected to rise. When considering this in a business setting, it’s no wonder that the pressure on networks is already straining at the seams. Coming to the rescue is next generation technology in the form of 10 Gigabit switching. Despite this being an untrodden territory for many SMBs, our recent research shows that 100 per cent of them foresee the need...

Mozilla has shuttered more than 130 serious vulnerabilities reported by community hackers this year. The browser-backing outfit announced the statistics in a post covering its bug bounty program and broader information security efforts. More than 500 million users ran Firefox at the close of 2015. It's since become the world's second-most-used browser. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Switzerland's national rail service (SBB) plans to start selling the digital currency Bitcoin at stations next month. From 11 November, customers will be able to trade Swiss francs for Bitcoins using ticket machines. They will not be able to buy tickets with the web-based currency, though. The SBB said it had been testing customer demand for Bitcoin across the country, and had decided to launch a two-year pilot project. View full story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC...

An Arbor ASERT Team researcher spotted threat actors actively updating and customising the Mirai botnet source code that was leaked less than two weeks ago. The firm's principal engineer Roland Dobbins noted relatively high concentrations of Mirai nodes which were observed in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, and Spain that included updates to remove erroneous Mirai bot backdoor reference, added Dyn post-mortem link, and refined descriptive verbiage, according to a 26...

A new active Angler phishing social media scam campaign has been identified by security researchers, which is targeting all major UK banks and their customers. The scam campaign involves hackers creating fake Twitter accounts, posing as customer support staff, in efforts to hoodwink customers into divulging credentials. In this case, ProofPoint researchers noted that the hackers operating the Angler phishing campaign were monitoring bank customers' accounts on Twitter. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

The development of the market for stolen data and related hacking skills indicate that the business of cybercrime in the healthcare sector is growing, according to Intel Security. “In an industry in which the personal is paramount, the loss of trust could be catastrophic to its progress and prospects for success,” said Raj Samani, Intel Security’s CTO for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security

A new tech support scam displays a fake blue screen of death (BSoD) in an effort to trick users into installing malware on their Windows computers. The threat, which Microsoft calls SupportScam:MSIL/Hicurdismos.A, builds off a long lineage of tech support scams. Some of those ruses have even mimicked other Windows features, including the update process, to try to trick users into purchasing unnecessary software. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Graham Cluley