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The ride-sharing firm Uber will, for the first time, allow users to hail self-driving cars within a fortnight, the company has confirmed. Uber said the launch would take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It added that it was teaming up with Volvo. At first, the vehicles will be supervised by a driver, who can take control if necessary, and an observer, Bloomberg reported. The firm first revealed plans to replace human drivers two years ago. More than one million people...

US presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign have allegedly become the latest targets for hackers. At least one Trump campaign staffer's emails are believed to have been spreading malware to other colleagues after having been infected in 2015. According to unspecified sources, hackers have targeted the computers of Trump and several other individuals and organisations affiliated with the Republican Party. However, it is still uncertain if the hackers managed to successfully gain access to...

Kaspersky researchers spotted a wave of attacks that has affected more than 130 organizations in at least 30 countries. Dubbed Operation Ghoul, the group behind the attacks appears to be financially motivated and targets executives at mostly small to medium-sized industrial manufacturing and engineering organizations by using spear phishing emails that include compressed executables, Kaspersky Senior Security Researcher Mohamad Amin Hasbini said in an Aug. 17 blog post. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

WikiLeaks is hosting 324 confirmed instances of malware among its caches of dumped emails, a top Bulgarian anti-malware veteran says. Random checks of reported malware hashes find the trojans are flagged as malware by Virus Total's static analysis checks. Much of the malware appear to be attachments emailed by black hats in a bid to compromise the various parties affected in the WikiLeaks dumps. Dr Vesselin Bontchev (@bontchev) says the instances of malware are only...

Clothing store chain Eddie Bauer said today it has detected and removed malicious software from point-of-sale systems at all of its 350+ stores in North America, and that credit and debit cards used at those stores during the first six months of 2016 may have been compromised in the breach. The acknowledgement comes nearly six weeks after KrebsOnSecurity first notified the clothier about a possible intrusion at stores nationwide. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Krebs on...

Looking to capitalize on mobile device owners' growing security fears, a new variant of theAndroid malware Marcher is infecting victims by fraudulently posing as a firmware security update. In a blog post, cybersecurity firm Zscaler reported finding a malicious HTML page that claims the reader's device is vulnerable to viruses, urging the user to install a firmware update. “Some of your photos, chat messages and account passwords may have become visible to others on the Internet,” the message warns ominously. View...

Careful of that clickbait. Phishing, where cybercriminals try to trick people into clicking links to malware or sites that steal your personal information, is common on social networks like Twitter. Now a machine learning system that reads our past tweets to craft personalised traps could make clicking links that show up in your feed even riskier. Crafting a successful phishing campaign isn’t easy. Throw garbage at people and they probably won’t click – and Twitter will ban you....

The data breach that hit Sage Group may have been conducted by an employee of the business and not external hackers after a 32-year-old worker from the company was arrested at Heathrow. The City of London Police said they had detained a female employee at the airport on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud. The Sage incident follows the larger cyber attack on TalkTalk last year that affected 156,000 customers and led to questions over the strength of Britain’s corporate cyber-defences. Some companies...

Research has revealed that almost two-thirds of businesses think their systems will be hit by a data breach if their technology is not updated in the next 12 months. Okta's Secure Business Agility report asked 300 IT and security professionals about their company's policies around security and IT. More than half of those asked said their current security solutions compromise productivity, although 48% explained the security measures their company does have in place allow them to adopt...

The improvement of specialist security expertise is one of the top three drivers for an additional investment in IT security, but many struggle to find people with the skills they need, a report reveals. Large businesses that struggle to attract skilled IT security experts are paying up to three times more to recover from a cyber security incident, a report has revealed. As the gap between the available security skills continues to widen, a growing number...