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An online petition calling for a second EU referendum which has reached 3 million signatures is being investigated after claims it has been hacked. The petition-the largest in British history- calls on the government to implement a rule that if the remain or leave vote is less than 60% based a turnout less than 75% there should be another referendum. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Daily Mirror

Visitors to the United States might soon be asked to hand over their social media handles to authorities if a proposal by the country's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is accepted. The government agency responsible for border security and vetting travellers to the US wants to add a question to the forms visitors fill out prior to arrival to the country, asking them to enter "information associated with your online presence - provider/platform - social...

Chipmaker Intel Corp (INTC.O) is considering the sale of its cyber security business, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. According to the report, the company has been talking to its bankers about options for the Intel Security unit, which was previously known as McAfee. Intel bought McAfee for $7.7 billion in 2011. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters

Britain's European Union referendum polling day is here and it has the tech industry worried, particularly cybersecurity firms. While the voters' decision to either remain or leave the EU is to be confirmed, the cybersecurity industry in the UK is deeply concerned and largely do not favour a Brexit, just like the tech industry in the UK as a whole. London's technology sector has openly spoken out against the possibility of a Brexit with an...

Air India's frequent flyer programme has been hit by a hacking campaign that has resulted in the theft of $23,745 worth of travel miles. There are over 195,000 accounts for the service, with loopholes in the system being exploitd by hackers with assistance from insiders in the breach. Those responsible created 20 separate email IDs to "divert the reward points earned by passengers," according to Air India. Praveen Lal, commercial manager at the airline, told the Times...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a huge botnet of zombie Twitter accounts sitting on the social network, but amazingly Twitter hasn't noticed or got rid of it. Researchers from social media fraud investigations team Sadbottrue have found a botnet containing three million Twitter accounts, together with two other botnets each containing 100,000 bots that are likely being used by online services that offer to rent or sell Twitter followers to businesses, celebrities or individuals that want more followers....

An Islamic State (Isis)-affiliated hacker group called the Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA)has released a new "kill list" on social media, with names, addresses and emails of over 4,000 people from across the globe. While almost half of the names in the list are of Americans, residents of the UK, France, Canada and India have also reportedly made it to the list. The hacker group distributed the list on the encrypted messaging service, Telegram, calling for...

Donald Trump insisted Thursday that the private email server Hillary Clinton used as secretary of state was hacked, but the presumptive Republican nominee couldn't say where he learned that information. "But is there any evidence that it was hacked other than -- routine phishing --" "NBC Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt asked Trump in a sit-down interview that will air Thursday on "NBC Nightly News." "I think I read that," Trump said. "And I heard...

The suggestion is that Apple has negelected to encrypt iOS 10 kernel in bid to encourage hackers to find security flaws The developer preview of iOS 10 has an unencrypted kernel according to security experts, leading to speculation as to whether this was an intentional decision from Apple in a bid to shore up the security of its mobile operating system.  The lack of encryption, as has been standard with previous versions of iOS, has meant...

Godless, an emerging mobile malware threat capable of rooting Android phones, has started to adopt the traits of an exploit kit, in that it searches for multiple vulnerabilities through which it can automatically infect a victim. Once it successfully executes, the malware gains root access to the device, granting it full control. Christopher Budd, global threats communications manager at Trend Micro, told SCMagazine.com in an interview that Godless is ostensibly an “encyclopedia of known, good attacks against various vulnerabilities…...