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Companies looking to recruit network engineering professionals with experience of dealing with DDoS attacks are facing an uphill struggle, according to new research from Imperva. The firm’s survey found that whilst companies across the globe are recognizing the importance of hiring skilled staff to help address security concerns threatening their online presence, a scarcity of qualified personnel is making this a difficult task. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine  

Several websites owned and operated by the United States Congress are recovering from a three-day distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The DDoS campaign began on July 17 when the websites for the Library of Congress (LoC) began experiencing technical difficulties. A day later, the websites went temporarily offline. During the attack, Library of Congress employees were unable to access their work emails or visit any of the Library's websites. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Graham Cluley

Hundreds of security products may not be up the job, researchers say, thanks to flawed uses of code hooking. The research is the handiwork of EnSilo duo Udi Yavo and Tommer Bitton, who disclosed the bugs in anti-virus and Windows security tools ahead of their presentation at the Black Hat Las Vegas conference next month. The pair say 15 products including AVG, Symantec, and McAfee are affected. Scores more may be vulnerable thanks to their use of...

Poodlecorp (yes, you read that right) has threatened to take the über popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go offline August 1 through a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the game’s already fragile servers. “We take the servers offline because it is popular right now and nobody can stop us,” @xotehpoodle (a member of the Poodlecorp group) said. “We do it because we can, nobody can stop us and we just like to cause chaos....

Polish telecom Netia suffered a major data breach following an attack that allowed hackers gain access to 14GB of customer data. Following the incident, which took place on July 7, the company's website was down until later that day. Netia owns Poland's second largest fixed phone line, and provides TV, Internet and mobile telephony services to its customers. The company says it operates a fibre network with a length of about 14,000 km. Lidia Marcinkowska, a...

Wikileaks has claimed its servers were hit before it released hundreds of thousands of documents on Tuesday purporting to reveal Turkey's "political power structure". The site said it would release the documents in the wake of the failed attempt to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week. The whistleblowing site said it had come "under sustained attack" on Tuesday and was "unsure" of the origin of the attack, though it suggested the Turkish state might...

Some of the U.S. Library of Congress’s websites are currently inaccessible as the result of a denial-of-service attack, the Library of Congress announced Monday.  The cyberattack was originally detected on July 17, a spokesperson told FedScoop. The attack has also caused other websites hosted by the LOC, including the U.S. Copyright Office, to go down. Library of Congress employees were reportedly unable to access their work email accounts or visit internal websites.  "The Library is working to maintain access to its online services while...

An Irish High Court judge has granted an unprecedented application by the US government to be joined to a major legal action over whether existing EU-US data transfer channels unlawfully breach the privacy rights of EU citizens. Mr Justice Brian McGovern said he was satisfied that the US government has a “significant and bona fide interest” in the outcome of the case. He was giving his reserved judgment on applications by the US government and...

Maxime Kjaer, a 19-year-old Danish student, has uncovered a set of Google Chrome extensions that were hijacking Facebook accounts but were capable of many more malicious actions. Crooks were distributing these extensions via Facebook posts for all sorts of cheesy and raunchy viral content. Users who clicked on the links inside those Facebook posts landed on a site that asked them to verify their age. Unlike other sites that allowed users to enter their age...

Google saw a record number of data requests from law enforcement agencies worldwide during the second half of 2015 as the request total passed the 40,000 mark for the first time. That’s up from 35,365 in the first half of the year and 30,140 one year previous,according to the tech giant’s latest transparency report. Google’s transparency report is an important resource since it provides a glimpse at how international governments and states are trying to use and access our data....