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A bounty-hunter has gone public with a complete howler made by Vine, the six-second-video-loop app Twitter acquired in 2012. According to this post (warning: he likes the blink tag) by @avicoder (Vjecx at GitHub), Vine's source code was for a while available on what was supposed to be a private Docker registry. View full story Original source: The Register

Democrats arrived at their nominating convention on Sunday under a cloud of discord as Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, abruptly said she was resigning after atrove of leaked emails showed party officials conspiring to sabotage the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. View full story Original source: New York Times

Automakers are sharing information on cyber security threats and working together on ways to respond when hackers strike, under guidelines being developed by the industry. Nearly all companies that sell cars and trucks in the U.S. have joined the Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center. The group announced Thursday that it's working on best practices to combat cyber threats. The group is holding a hacking attack drill on Thursday. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CNS...

Hackers claiming links with Ukrainian nationalist group, Right Sector, have attempted to hold the Polish defence ministry to ransom. The group purportedly breached the ministry of defence, accessed internal servers and then threatened the ministry with public disclosure if it didn't pay US$50,000 (£37,748). From an account titled @pravsector, the group sent a public tweet, since deleted, on 14 July, saying “this last warning and if the polish gov. dnt pay us $50k we will publish all...

Now no more fight with Apple or any smartphone maker, as federal authorities have discovered a new tool for unlocking phones, as far as your phone is using any biometric sensor… 3D Printing! Yes, Police in Michigan is considering 3D printing a dead man’s fingers so they could unlock smartphones in investigation crimes using their biometric sensors. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Hacker News

A Wi-Fi hack experiment, conducted at various locations at or near the Republican National Convention site in Cleveland, US, underlines how risky it can be to connect to public Wi-Fi without protection from a VPN. The exercise, carried out by security researchers at Avast, an anti-virus firm, revealed that more than 1,000 delegates were careless when connecting to public Wi-Fi. Attendees risked the possibility of being spied on and hacked by cybercriminals or perhaps even...

Donald Trump's controversial remarks on NATO are drawing headlines this morning, after the candidate told The New York Times he wouldn't necessarily defend allies under attack. But the full transcript of that conversation, published today by the Times, also showed a winding response from Trump to a question about cyberattacks. Trump says he's all for "cyber," although it's unclear from the conversation what exactly that means. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Verge

OurMine, a group of hacking teens, has taken the account of one of the gaming world’s most beloved executives. Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida is the victim of the most recent attack. OurMine has done this with other big people in the world of tech. They claim to offer “security services” after they take over this accounts or perform DDoS attacks. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Buffalo

A 16-year-old boy has been spared detention after launching cyber-attacks on websites across the world and tweeting bomb hoaxes to airlines. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked 12 websites when he was aged 14 and 15, including sites belonging to his local police force and SeaWorld. He targeted government and pro-hunting sites in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America from a laptop in his bedroom at home in Plympton, near Plymouth, Devon. View...

The Brazil branch of the Anonymous hacker collective has launched a DDoS attack against the website of the Rio court that banned WhatsApp usage across the country. The attack, meant as a warning shot, took place yesterday and only lasted a few hours. The court website was back to normal by 15:00, local time. The hacker group took credit for the attack via a post on their Facebook page, where they also explained their reasons. View...