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Intent on winning over more of the enterprise browser market, Microsoft has unveiled a new security feature it’s calling “Windows Defender Application Guard.” It’s a mouthful, but it will reportedly make Edge one of the most secure browsers available. The feature uses a “mini virtual PC” to isolate Edge from the rest of your system, effectively quarantining the entire browser to prevent malware from gaining access to sensitive files. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Yahoo

Brad Pitt is very much alive, but if you clicked on an article that claimed he committed suicide after his divorce from Angelina Jolie, your phone could soon be dead. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Daily Mail

The FBI is investigating suspected attempts to hack mobile phones used by Democratic Party officials as recently as the past month, four people with direct knowledge of the attack and the investigation told Reuters. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters

Windows 10 is now on more devices across the world than ever before. Microsoft says that over 400 million active devices, including phones, tablets and desktop computers, are now running its Windows 10 software, making it the fastest-adopted release in history. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Express

Two years ago, Brian Weinreich, the co-founder and head of product at Density, an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor startup, got so fed up of receiving spam emails from his business email account that he decided to teach a lesson to all future spammers who tried to contact him. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times    

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks have come across an OS X Trojan they believe has been used by a notorious Russia-linked cyber espionage group in attacks aimed at the aerospace industry. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Security Week

Spamhaus, the organization that runs one of the Internet's largest, most accurate and up-to-date spam list, is warning against a spike in network hijacking events. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Softpedia

Internet of Amazingly Insecure Tat? That's the one. The huge distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which wiped security journalist Brian Krebs' website from the internet came from a million-device-strong Internet of Things botnet. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

RAUM, one fresh and refined tool is the latest discovery in the cyber-crime world. It attacks innocent Web-surfers who surf torrent sites to download media content else popular software, by substituting them with malicious software. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Spamfighter

A crook named Cronbot is currently selling a new malware variant on Russian underground hacking forums that appears to be a successful fork of an older and very advanced infostealer called Pony. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Softpedia