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One of the world’s leading wire and cable manufacturers, Leoni AG, has been swindled out of a jaw-dropping 40 million Euros (approximately US $44 million) after it was targeted by an email scammer. View full story Original source: State of Security

Many of today’s automobiles leave the factory with secret passengers: prototype software features that are disabled but that can be unlocked by clever drivers. View full story Original source: Help Net Security

Ancient famed Windows cracker L0phtCrack has been updated after seven years, with the release of the "fully revamped" version seven. View full story Original source: The Register

A new purported ransomware variant is hitting Linux servers, deleting files and demanding payment for the return of lost data. View full story Original source: The Register

The volume of data breach incidents reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)has almost doubled in the space of a year, according to a new Freedom of Information (FoI) request. View full story Original source: Infosecurity Magazine

Linux users are reporting a new ransomware called “FairWare” played a part in taking down their websites. News of the ransomware first surfaced in a post on Bleeping Computer’s forums. According to the victim, attackers likely brute-forced or intercepted the password for their Linux machine. Once they acquired access, the baddies logged into the Linux servers for the website, deleted the web folder, and left a Pastebin message demanding a ransom payment of two Bitcoins...

Alex Jones, a hardcore Donald Trump supporter, radio show host, documentary filmmaker and conspiracy theorist had his site hacked by unknown attackers who stole login account credentials of tens of thousands of Prison Planet TV users. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: HackRead

Earlier today, Motherboard reported on what had been rumoured for some time, namely that Dropbox had been hacked. Not just a little bit hacked and not in that "someone has cobbled together a list of credentials that work on Dropbox" hacked either, but proper hacked to the tune of 68 million records. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Troy Hunt

SWIFT, the global financial messaging system, on Tuesday disclosed new hacking attacks on its member banks as it pressured them to comply with security procedures instituted after February's high-profile $81 million heist at Bangladesh Bank.   View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters

Password attic OneLogin has been breached, and it's bad, because the service that suffered the breach is one often used by people to store credentials like admin password and software keys. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register