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A Kurdish hacker codenamed “MuhmadEmad” from the hacktivist group “KurdLinux_Team” have managed to gain unauthorized access to Dell’s official website subdomains and leaving them defaced. At the time of publishing this news article, the website remained hacked. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tapscape

A hacker who claims to be an angry and recently expelled student at London’s University of Greenwich allegedly decided to take revenge by hacking the school’s website, defacing it, and exposing the private credentials for over 21,000 people involved with the school. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Daily Dot

Websites of the Indian embassy in up to seven countries were vandalised by pro-Pakistani hackers ‘Intruder’ and ‘Romantic.’ The home page of the hacked websites was defaced with pro-Pakistani messages warning India. However, currently all the websites are up and running, except that of the Indian embassy of Tajikistan. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Oodaloop.com

Urgent action is needed to deal with the UK's digital skills crisis, warn MPs, or it risks damaging the country's productivity and competitiveness. It is thought 12.6 million adults lack basic digital skills, while 5.8 million have never used the internet at all. "Stubborn digital exclusion and systemic problems" with education and training need to be urgently addressed, the report said. It urged the government's digital strategy to be published without delay. View full story...

Infosecurity Europe in London is guaranteed to leave its attendees with plenty of cyber security-based nuggets of information to chew over. This year was no different as security luminaries, experts from major companies and a politician threw their opinions and thoughts into the mix. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: V3

Hackers are trading tens of millions of Twitter credentials on the darknet, according to LeakedSource, a search engine that trawls leaked records, warning that malware was used to grab the data from users. LeakedSource says that it has obtained a data set of almost 33 million Twitter records. Each record may contain an email address, a username, sometimes a second email and a visible password, it says. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Fox News

If you share folders among your work makes, there’s a good chance that at least one of them is infected with malware. This warning comes out of a new study which found that of all the corporate files and folders tested, around one in 10 of them was found to contain some form of malware infection. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Yahoo

Cybersecurity needs more skilled professionals, and businesses need to help train them, say experts. Experts have urged businesses and educators to address the widening cybersecurity skills gap by working together. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ITPRO

It's the conspiracy theorists' favorite time of the year, as the annual Bilderberg Meeting kicks off on June 9 at the luxurious Taschenbergpalais Hotel in Dresden. The meetings, held since 1954, bring together around 130 business and political leaders from Europe and North America. This year ten main topics are up for discussion, including "Cyber Security" and "Technological Innovation," in talks that will last for three days. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Researchers at Dell SecureWorks have spotted a new and dangerous way to misuse of Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). While working on a customer clean-up project, SecureWorks staff found that attackers had created self-contained BITS tasks that didn't appear in the registries of affected machines, and their footprints were limited to entries on the BITS database. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register