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Google is rolling out a sweeping redesign of its popular Gmail service, but federal cybersecurity authorities warn that a key new feature on the system could make its 1.4 billion users more susceptible to dangerous phishing attacks that compromise users’ vital personal information. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ABC News

Despite 95 percent of CIOs expecting cyberthreats to increase over the next three years, only 65 percent of their organizations currently have a cybersecurity expert, according to a survey from Gartner. The survey also reveals that skills challenges continue to plague organizations that undergo digitalization, with digital security staffing shortages considered a top inhibitor to innovation. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Helpnetsecurity

On Saturday, Twitter kicked off two accounts connected to the 2016 US presidential election hacking and the subsequent leak of documents stolen during the breaches: Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks. The move came within hours of Friday’s indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers who the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has fingered in connection to attacks on the computers and email systems of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the months leading up to the election....

LabCorp, the US' biggest blood testing laboratories network, announced on Monday that hackers breached its IT network over the weekend. "At this time, there is no evidence of unauthorized transfer or misuse of data," the company said. "LabCorp has notified the relevant authorities of the suspicious activity and will cooperate in any investigation." View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

Based on a global survey of 727 cloud technology decision makers at businesses with more than 1,000 employees, Forrester Consulting found how shifting business priorities are driving enterprises to adopt multi-cloud strategies. According to the study, a vast majority (86 percent) of respondents describe their current cloud strategy as multi-cloud, with performance and innovation rising above cost savings as the top measures of success. In addition, 60 percent of enterprises are now moving or have...

Login passwords for tens of thousands of Dahua devices have been cached inside search results returned by ZoomEye, a search engine for discovering Internet-connected devices (also called an IoT search engine). Discovered by Ankit Anubhav, Principal Researcher at NewSky Security, a cyber-security company specialized in IoT security, these passwords are for Dahua DVRs running very old firmware that is vulnerable to a five-year-old vulnerability. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

Key findings from a survey conducted by Dimensional Research highlight that only 20% of companies surveyed believe they are GDPR compliant, while 53% are in the implementation phase and 27% have not yet started their implementation. EU (excluding UK) companies are further along, with 27% reporting they are compliant, versus 12% in the U.S. and 21% in the UK. While many companies have significant work to do, 74% expect to be compliant by the end...

Are virtual machines (VM) more secure than containers? You may think you know the answer, but IBM Research has found containers can be as secure, or more secure, than VMs. James Bottomley, an IBM Research Distinguished Engineer and top Linux kernel developer, writes: "One of the biggest problems with the current debate about Container vs Hypervisor security is that no-one has actually developed a way of measuring security, so the debate is all in qualitative...

Academics say they've mounted a successful GPS spoofing attack against road navigation systems that can trick humans into driving to incorrect locations. The research is of note because previous GPS spoofing attacks have been unable to trick humans, who, in past experiments, often received malicious driving instructions that didn't make sense or were not in sync with the road infrastructure —for example taking a left on a straight highway. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping...

Babcock International Model United Nations (BIMUN) has urged member states to pay more attention to cyber security and broaden its definition beyond hacking to enhance implementation of broader solutions. It stated this at the simulation of the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security (DISEC), during the second BIMUN conference, organised by Babcock University, Ilishan Ogun State, in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Lagos at the weekend. View Full...