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Homeland Security has served Twitter with a subpoena, demanding the account information of a data breach finder, credited with finding several large caches of exposed and leaking data. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

Few business risks today have the destructive capability of a cyber attack. Yet, for many organisations, cyber risks remain obscure, low priority, and are frequently seen as the domain of IT departments to manage. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: City AM

Industrial players, like power plants, manufacturers or water treatment centres, are embracing IoT at a great pace, but failing to consider security issues, new research has said. A report by Kaspersky Lab has claimed that while these types of organisations turn more towards IoT, they’re not doing enough to protect these investments, which makes them a sitting duck for cybercriminals. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ITProPortal

Three new attacks against the LTE 4G wireless data communications technology have been pinpointed by researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum and New York University Abu Dhabi. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help net security

An Iranian cyber-espionage group attempted to pose as one of the cyber-security firms that exposed its previous hacking campaigns in an effort to spear-phish people interested in reading reports about it. The group —also known as an advanced persistent threat (APT) in infosec jargon— is known by security experts under the codenames of Charming Kitten, Newscaster, or Newsbeef. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

A glitch in the latest version of the Samsung Messages texting app that comes pre-installed on all Samsung phones is sending random pictures to users' contacts. The good news is that the issue appears to be limited only to modern Samsung Galaxy series, such as S9, S9 Plus, and Note 8, and not to all Samsung handsets. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

In today’s digital economy, it is essential that companies of every size can collect, store and adequately protect customer data and proprietary secrets. Failure to do so will significantly damage a company’s brand and reduce the quality of the product it produces, with concomitant impact on revenues and profitability, according to GlobalData. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help net security

Four in 10 UK CEOs believe becoming a victim of a cyber attack is now a case of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ for their organisation, according to a survey of CEOs from some of Britain’s biggest businesses. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: London Loves Business

Cyber criminals are selling personal data on the dark web for the price of a cup of coffee, a survey has found. Email logins, which can be a gateway to financial data, can be sold for as little as £2.10, it adds. Logins for 26 of the most commonly used accounts are available. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Metro

The team behind the Trezor multi-cryptocurrency wallet service has discovered a phishing attack against some of its users that took place over the weekend. The Trezor team says "signs point toward DNS poisoning or BGP hijacking" as the means attackers hijacked legitimate traffic meant for the official wallet.trezor.io domain but redirected these users to a malicious server hosting a fake website. An investigation is still underway to determine the exact cause. View Full Story ORIGINAL...