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A Chinese businessman who admitted taking part in the hacking of US defence secrets has been given nearly four years’ jail. Su Bin, 51, was convicted of taking part in a years-long scheme by Chinese military officers to obtain sensitive military information, targeting projects including the F-22 and F-35 fighter jets and Boeing’s C-17 military transport aircraft. In addition to the 46-month prison term, a US district court judge in Los Angeles ordered Su to...

Unsurprisingly, many consumer products organisations are taking risks with the security and privacy of their customer data. They are failing to put in place proper processes and safeguards in the rush to harvest as much information as possible and realise the rewards promised by deep, real-time consumer insights. A Capgemini Consulting’s Digital Transformation Institute survey of 300 executives at 86 large global consumer products firms with combined revenue of over $756 billion, reveals an industry...

Signing into Pokémon Go on iOS with a Google account gives the game full access to that account, according to a systems architect, Adam Reeve. The Android version of the game apparently does not have these issues. Reeve said that the security situation was not the same for all iOS users. Pokémon Go was released last week and has been a huge hit. It is the latest in a series of games from Nintendo but is made...

The team behind Datadog, a widely used SaaS-based monitoring and analytics platform for IT infrastructure, operations and development teams, has announced on Friday that they have suffered a breach. “We have detected unauthorized activity associated with a handful of production infrastructure servers, including a database that stores user credentials. A user also has reported unsuccessful attempts to use AWS credentials shared with Datadog,” the company’s CSO Andrew Becherer explained in a security notice published on...

Blind faith motivates website admins to dismiss multiple security flaws. A security analyst found himself banned after he publicly disclosed multiple vulnerabilities affecting a series of web forums. On July 10, reverse engineer and security analyst Andrew Tierney tweeted out  NeighbourNet's suspension of his account following alleged ID misuse. NeighbourNet is a network of local news and community information websites based in West and South West London. The platform powers www.BrentfordTW8.com, www.ChiswickW4.com, and other websites....

Crypto Drop looks for tell-tale signs that files are being encrypted Researchers from the University of Florida and Villanova University reckon ransomware can be stopped by watching what it's doing to the target's files. Taking a “save what you can” approach, the authors of this PDF reckon in their tests they were able to lower the boom on ransomware when it had encrypted just 0.2 per cent of files on their test setup. View full...

A senior executive of Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google unit said on Monday that the company was notifying customers of 4,000 state-sponsored cyber attacks per month. Speaking at a Fortune magazine tech conference in Aspen, Colorado, Google senior vice president and Alphabet board member Diane Greene mentioned the figure while touting Google's security prowess. The internet search leader, which develops the Android mobile system and also offers email and a range of other applications for consumers,...

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that the U.S. government has to improve its cyber security practices for the modern age of smart phones and other technology, saying that hackers had targeted the White House. "I am concerned about it, I don't think we have it perfect. We have to do better, we have to learn from mistakes," Obama told a news conference in Madrid. "We know that we have had hackers in the...

The hotel chain was hit by malware designed to collect payment card information Omni Hotels & Resorts has reported that point-of-sale systems at some of its properties were hit by malware targeting payment card information. The attack on the systems of the luxury hotel chain follows similar breaches of point-of-sale systems at various hotels and retailers like Hyatt Hotels, Target, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and Hilton Worldwide Holdings. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Network...

Popular messaging app operator Line is set to launch the year's biggest tech market debut. On Monday, the company priced its IPO at 3,300 yen apiece, raising 115 billion yen ($1.14 billion), and valuing the company at around $6.6 billion. The Japanese firm is offering a total of 35 million new shares -- 13 million in Japan and 22 million in New York. Line is slated for a dual listing later this week in New York...