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The European parliament has voted through tougher rules on data protection, aimed at boosting privacy and giving authorities greater powers to take action against companies that breach the rules. The rules, including the much-needed General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), were four years in the making and form the new backbone of laws for data regulators to pursue companies with heavy fines – as much as 4% of annual turnover for global companies – for incidents...

If the UK power supply were to be hit by a catastrophic cyber-attack, realistically, how might it happen and what would the economic consequences be?  Those were questions that researchers at the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies examined in a new report out yesterday: Integrated Infrastructure: Cyber resiliency in Society, funded by Lockheed Martin. As always, the answers in our sector are, it depends – but in the worst case scenario looked at – losses over five years could...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley has asked Hillary Clinton if she knew whether her emails were hacked by “Guccifer” — the noted Romanian who first revealed that the former secretary of state had used a private server. In a letter Tuesday to Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, the Iowa Republican referenced a “Meet the Press” interview she gave on Sunday in which she reiterated earlier positions that she was willing to answer “any questions that...

The Internet has invaded most of the things in our world and its scope is broadening day by day. This time, it is our vehicles that will be receiving a digital boost. The reason is that cars are already being connected to the internet and the smart technology has made them capable of driving themselves so it is understandable that we will need to make them protected. Otherwise, the Chrysler exploit and subsequent warning from the Federal Bureau of...

Anonymous has shut down the Klu Klux Klan's website as part of an "operation" designed to unite the hacktivist group in a battle against racism. A prominent member of the masked group who goes under the nickname JustAnotherNode has spent weeks barraging the KKK's website with a digital blitzkreig called a DDoS attack, which cripples websites by flooding them with traffic. He told The Mirror that this assault was so long and intense that the...

Between July and December 2015, Uber provided data on 12 million passengers and drivers following requests from US regulators and law enforcement agencies. That is one of the major findings of the online transportation network company's first-ever transparency report, which was released on Tuesday. In the report, Uber reveals it received 33 requests from local regulated agencies for information pertaining to approximately 11,644,000 riders and 583,000 drivers between July and December 2015. View full story ORIGINAL...

In 2005, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) began monitoring and tallying the ever-growing number of US security breaches. Since then, the organization has seen a 397 percent increase in data exposure incidents across financial services, business, education, government and healthcare sectors. This week, the ITRC’s Data Breach List hit a milestone of 6,013 reported data breach incidents. So far in 2016, nearly 6.2 million records have been compromised – adding to the more than...

ACSC 2016 Airbus chief security officer Stephane Lenco says the company is hit by successful state-sponsored and ransomware attacks a dozen times each year. The attacks aren't full breaches, instead representing penetration beyond simple scanning trigger a response from the aviation giant's security and computer emergency response team. Speaking at the Australian Cyber Security Centre Conference (ACSC 2016) in Canberra today, Lenco said state-sponsored hackers and terrorists as the company's chief threat actors. View full story...

Kylie Jenner’s cosmetics site has a shaky foundation, because it’s been inadvertently exposing very personal customer information. Here’s the problem. When someone tried to log into the site, it would send them to an existing customer’s account, revealing names, email addresses, personal addresses, order history, etc. Every time a customer refreshed the site, it would send them to another customer’s account. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: TMZ

A malvertising campaign has swamped most of the Netherlands’ most popular sites, affecting millions of users. The campaign began to take root on Sunday, when security firm Fox-IT noted a spike in incidents involving malware exploit kits. Spotted among those kits was the notorious Angler: the CaaS, or Crimeware-as-a-Service, that crooks have chosen to spread such nasties as the CryptoWall 4.0 ransomware. As of Monday, at least 288 websites had been infected with malvertising, exposing millions to poisoned ads. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Naked...