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Time and time again, Mr. Robot has proven to be a show that prides itself on extreme attention to detail. Whether it involves hiring ex-FBI employees as consultants or tracking down the duo behind the Full House theme, the series wants to ground its high-stakes story in a healthy dose of realism. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Ars Technica

Security researchers have discovered a sophisticated strain of malware which has shifted across platforms in order to target Mac OS X users. This week, Kaspersky Lab security experts revealed the existence of Backdoor.OSX. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

Net scum are still finding ways to take down users with a decade-old Windows Media Player attack. The vector is a reborn social engineering hatchet job not seen in years in which attackers convince users to run executable content through Windows Media Player's Digital Rights Management (DRM) functionality. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Cyber security has risen up the agenda for business, policymakers, government, law enforcement and users in recent times, yet it has always been a priority for ISPs. ISPA surveyed its members across a range of cyber security areas, including where it sits in their business, the nature and impact of cyber-attacks, the tech used to safeguard networks and the role of end users, Government and law enforcement. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security

Millions of internet-facing devices – from home broadband routers to industrial equipment – are still sharing well-known private keys for encrypting their communications.This is according to research from SEC Consult, which said in a follow-up to its 2015 study on security in embedded systems that the practice of reusing widely known secrets is continuing unabated. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Cyber security is back in the spotlight in the wake of ABC’s recent Four Cornersprogram on the issue. The program’s viewers were treated to long established yet simple techniques hackers use to steal personal information and access internet banking accounts. As certain as death and taxes are to all of us, it is safe to say that we will probably never be able to eradicate hackers and clandestine networks from our (digital) lives. View full story...

Popular Chinese food chain "Mr Chow's" has been caught plating up ransomware from its website. The fine dining restaurant chain boasts sites in London and across the US and was hacked by attackers injecting the pseudo Darkleech malicious scripts to redirect users. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register  

A new banking Trojan – Gugi – has managed to bypass the security permission feature introduced by Google in the Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system to steal banking credentials of users. The Trojan is mostly spread by SMS spam with an aim to overlay banking apps with phishing windows in order to steal user credentials for mobile banking. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

Linode, one of the world's top providers of virtual private servers (VPS), battled over the weekend with a DDoS attack that targeted its Atlanta data center and that the company has described as "catastrophic." View full story Original source: Softpedia

If you get a tweet from what appears to be an official PayPal support account on Twitter, take the time to double-check the source – because currently, there is a phishing scam doing the rounds using false accounts to try and trick users into giving up their logins. View full story Original source: Techradar