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On Saturday evening, during the Eleventh HOPE conference in New York City, three hackers released the final master key used by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which opens Safe Skies luggage locks.  View full story Original source: CSO

Nearly six million cybercrimes were committed in England and Wales during the last year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed. View full story Original source: Infosecurity Magazine

The FBI's process for prioritizing cyberthreats is currently too slow and subjective, hindering its ability to optimize allocation of resources to address these dangers, according to a newly released report from the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General. View full story Original source: SC Magazine

Fabian Wosar, a malware analyst at Emsisoft, has created a free decrypter that can unlock files encrypted by the recently discovered Stampado ransomware. View full story Original source: Softpedia

Without much fanfare, the Semiconductor Industry Association earlier this month published a somewhat-bleak assessment of the future of Moore's Law – and at the same time, called “last drinks” on its decades-old International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). View full story Original source: The Register

Security researchers have released the master key and blueprint to bypass luggage security practices enforced by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Speaking at the eleventh HOPE conference in New York City last week, reverse engineers DarkSim905, Johnny Xmas, and Nite 0wl revealed that the master keys used by the US agency are now available to anyone who has access to a 3D printer View full story Original source: ZDNet

A series of spectacular cyber attacks against banks, resulting in the theft of tens of millions of dollars, has heightened fears for an industry becoming an increasingly attractive target for hackers. View full story Original source: Security Week  

America's National Institute for Standards and Technology has advised abandonment of SMS-based two-factor authentication. That's the gist of the latest draft of its Digital Authentication Guideline, here. Down in section 5.1.3.2, the document says out-of-band verification using SMS is deprecated and won't appear in future releases of NIST's guidance. View full story Original source: The Register

In the UK, 41 percent of online daters have been spammed or scammed when using online dating services. New research from Symantec says cyber-criminals are now pretending to be Tinder users and tricking other users into visiting a malicious third-party website to verify their profiles and give up their financial information. View full story Original source: Help Net Security

In the UK, 41 percent of online daters have been spammed or scammed when using online dating services. New research from Symantec says cyber-criminals are now pretending to be Tinder users and tricking other users into visiting a malicious third-party website to verify their profiles and give up their financial information. View full story Original source: SC Magazine UK