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UK debt relief charity Christians Against Poverty has begun writing to supporters following a data breach that exposed personal details – including phone and bank account numbers, and banking sort codes. Unidentified hackers broke into the charity’s systems in late July. The intrusion was only detected a week later, as an alert by Christians Against Poverty (a charity that works to lift the poor out of debt) explains. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

An anonymous group calling itself the Shadow Brokers claims to have hacked the computer systems used by the Equation Group, an elite cyberattack team associated with the National Security Agency (NSA). Claiming to have stolen some of its cyberweapons, the group says it is holding an auction to sell them off to the highest bidder. Shadow Brokers have also provided a sample of the alleged stolen data as proof of their legitimacy. View full story...

Security experts and former officials say the attacks on computer networks at airports and government ministries are designed to demonstrate China's cyber power and deter online retaliation. China, in pursuit of its territorial claims in the resource-rich South China Sea, is resorting to low-level cyber warfare against the Philippines and Vietnam — the two nations who recently won an international legal case against the Communist government. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Fedscoop

Iran's Supreme National Cyberspace Council is investigating whether a recent string of oil and petrochemical fires were caused by a cyberattack. According to a report in Time, a July 6 fire at the Bouali petrochemical plant that spewed toxic clouds over a nearby city, an explosion on July 8 at the Marun Oil and Gas Production Company and a fire on July 29 at the Bisotoon petrochemical plant are all being looked at by Iranian cyber...

Valley Anesthesiology and Pain Consultants, a large practice with more than 300 providers serving multiple hospitals across the greater Phoenix region, has suffered a cyber attack affecting 882,590 patients. The incident also affects all current and former employees and providers, the number of which was not disclosed. In a statement, the organization said it learned of the attack on June 13, 2016; further investigation found that the attack started on March 30. Forensics has found...

A curious proof-of-work project built on cryptocurrency has emerged that offers a means to prove participation in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. University of Colorado assistant professor Eric Wustrow and University of Michigan phD student Benjamin VanderSloot create the platform that allows TLS web servers to be targeted. Signatures are created when TLS connections are confirmed, gifting attackers another means to be paid for denial of service attacks. The DDoSCoins could be traded in...

In a letter addressed to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, 46 global business groups spanning finance, information technology, insurance and manufacturing urged Beijing to revise its draft cyber rules, which they said would hamper trade. The signatories include industry associations from Asia, Australia, the United States, Mexico and Europe, according to a copy of the letter seen by Reuters. Foreign industry groups have made no secret of their concerns over China’s draft cybersecurity law, which in...

Weeks before the Democratic convention was upended by 20,000 leaked e-mails released through WikiLeaks, another little-known website began posting the secrets of a top NATO general, billionaire George Soros’ philanthropy and a Chicago-based Clinton campaign volunteer. Security experts now say that site, DCLeaks.com, with its spiffy capitol-dome logo, shows the marks of the same Russian intelligence outfit that targeted the Democratic political organizations. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bloomberg

The official chat forum for Valve's Dota 2 game has been hit by a hack attack,a security company reports. Leaked Source said email addresses, user names and passwords for more than 1.9 million people had been stolen in the attack. The passwords had been weakly protected by extra security measures, it said, and would be easy to crack. The hack was revealed just as Dota 2's global tournament, The International, gets under way in Seattle....

Security researchers will demonstrate how crooks can break into cars at will using wireless signals that can unlock millions of vulnerable vehicles. The eggheads, led by University of Birmingham computer scientist Flavio Garcia alongside colleagues from German engineering firm Kasper & Oswald, have managed to clone a VW Group remote control key fob after eavesdropping on the gizmos' radio transmissions. The hack can be used by thieves to wirelessly unlock as many as 100 million...