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Windows Defender Application Guard locks untrusted browsing sessions away from the rest of the OS. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: PC World

Startups selected for the accelerator will be given £5,000 and access to GCHQ and Telefonica's cyber experts. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Wired

Companies should face severe financial penalties if they fail to keep customers’ data safe, a majority of directors believe, amid a spate of cyber attacks on big businesses. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Telegraph                        

In one of the biggest data breaches of all time, Yahoo has said 500 million user accounts may have been hacked. The data breach happened in 2014 and is likely to have been conducted in an attack orchestrated by a state-sponsored organisation, the firm said in a statement."The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted...

At least 15,769 WordPress websites - and probably more - have been compromised this year, half slipping past Google's Safe Browsing checks, says security researcher Daniel Cid. The world's most popular content management system represented the lion's share of some 21,821 sites studied in the second 2016 Sucuri report on compromised web properties that found 3099 Joomla! sites were hacked in the same period. Statistics plummeted for hacked Magento, Drupal, vBulletin, and Modx sites. Almost...

The email of a White House staff member has been hacked by DC Leaks, revealing what the group claims is Michelle Obama's passport. In addition to the staffer's correspondence with other White House workers, the emails also reveal detailed schedules for members of the Secret Service, the First Lady and Vice President Joe Biden. The young staffer also appears to be heavily involved in organizing events for Hillary Clinton. White House press secretary said of the...

The criminal group behind the Qadars banking trojan has launched v3 of their malware this year, which this month seems to be focused on targeting the clients of 18 banks in the UK, according to a recent report by IBM's X-Force team. Qadars is one of the lesser known banking trojans, but just as dangerous as its more famous counterparts, such as Dridex, URSnif, Ramnit, Neverquest, Shifu, and others. The first version of this trojan appeared in 2013 when...

With the release of Google's new chat app Allo, Edward Snowden has warned people against using the app as it now allows the company to read all of the chats sent with it. Allo was showed off earlier this summer and now it has been officially released and is available for download. Google previously touted that chats sent using the app would be encrypted by default allowing users to rest easy knowing their conversations were...

Yahoo is poised to confirm a massive data breach of its service, according to several sources close to the situation, hacking that has exposed several hundred million user accounts. While sources were unspecific about the extent of the incursion, since there is the likelihood of government investigations and legal action related to the breach, they noted that it is widespread and serious.  Earlier this summer, Yahoo said it was investigating a data breach in which...

An exponential rise in malware means employees are at their highest-ever risk of accidentally installing malicious software onto an enterprise network -- an event that happens every four seconds within the average company, a new report has warned. Security researchers at Check Point analysed information on over 30,000 security incidents discovered by the company's ThreatCloud prevention software at more than 1,000 companies across the globe. They found that employees in industry, finance, government, and other sectors are...