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A company that offers pregnant women and new parents health advice and gifts, faces a fine for illegally sharing more than a million people's personal data with the Labour Party. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC

Beirut officials have arrested three suspects believed to be behind what local authorities are calling the biggest hack in Lebanon's history. The arrests took place last week and included what police believe to be the main hacker, one of his accomplices, and a local businessman, according to Lebanese daily newspaper Al Akhbar. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

A hacker who got ahold of sensitive US military documents tried to sell them on a dark-web forum — only to find there were no buyers. The hacker was forced to lower his price to $150. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Business Insider

Blizzard Entertainment customer service announced early this morning that the denial-of-service attacks that had been plaguing its games since the weekend were finally over.The attacks have been running off and on since Sunday, causing severe lag for some players and preventing others from logging in at all. The problem affected players of Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Forbes

More than half of companies (54%) continue to face phishing emails on a regular basis, and are looking beyond employee training to find the best solution, according to a report from IronScales, a security firm that offers phishing tools. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Republic

The security industry’s supply chain is currently inferior to that of its attackers, says Carbon Black CEO Patrick Morley, but he thinks the industry is finding ways to fight back. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Several Internet transit providers —companies that route global Internet traffic between local ISPs, end users, and data centers— have banded together to ban a fellow transit provider that has carried out at least 130 Internet route (BGP) hijacks in the past few years, most of which, experts say, were with malicious intent. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

In a live webinar today, Kaspersky Lab experts presented their review of Q2 2018 advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. In addition to charting the latest campaigns, tools and techniques deployed by established threat actors, Vicente Diaz and Costin Raiu, security researchers in Kaspersky Lab’s global research and analysis team, also discussed the reawakening of previously quiet groups, revealing that Asia was the epicenter of APT activity during Q2 2018. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine

Cryptocurrency token conversion service Bancor disclosed yesterday that hackers stole millions in funds from one of its online wallets, while Etherium crypto wallet service MyEtherWallet warned that hackers may have compromised anyone who accessed its service while using the free VPN service Hola and its Chrome extension. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

US authorities have charged a former Apple employee with theft of trade secrets, alleging that the person downloaded a secret blueprint related to a self-driving car to a personal laptop and later trying to flee the country, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Telegraph