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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

A cryptocurrency mining virus that hijacks computers and smartphones after they visit websites has surged in the last three months, thanks to risky smartphone apps and infected webpages. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Telegraph

Security firm FireEye has detected that malware authors have deployed the PROPagate code injection technique for the first time inside a live malware distribution campaign. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

The UK government has launched a new cybersecurity standard designed to set a baseline of mandatory security outcomes for all departments. The Minimum Cyber Security Standard announced this week presents a minimum set of measures which all government departments will need to follow, although the hope is that they will look to exceed these at all times. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine

Ticketmaster was warned in April that it had been the victim of a hack attack, digital bank Monzo has claimed. Ticketmaster had previously said it did not know about the breach until June and had then acted quickly to inform "all relevant authorities". View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC

An unknown hacker has temporarily taken control over the GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux organization and embedded malicious code inside the operating system's distributions that would delete user files. Thankfully, the malicious code fails to trigger properly and users' files remain safe. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

About 65% of surveyed current and former attendees at the annual Black Hat USA security conference say they’re limiting their use of Facebook or not using it at all after the recent controversies over the company’s security practices, Black Hat reports. The organization has surveyed its attendees on security matters annually since 2015, and the majority of those surveyed reported working in a computer security profession. This year’s survey generally found attendees pessimistic about the outlook...

US security company FireEye has denied a claim aired in a new book that it hacked into laptops owned by Chinese military hackers. It's common knowledge that prior to its acquisition by FireEye, the security concern Mandiant brought the Chinese operation known as APT1 undone. In its 2013 report, the company attributed espionage against 141 companies in 20 industries to APT in attacks dating back to 2006. Its report said APT1 operated closely to People's Liberation...

More than 120,000 Massachusetts residents are affected by a recent data breach at the handyperson-for-hire site TaskRabbit, making it the largest breach in the state so far this year, according to new data from Massachusetts regulators. San Francisco-based TaskRabbit, which launched in Boston in 2008 and is now owned by furniture giant Ikea, announced in April that it had suffered a “cybersecurity incident." The company has said that in some cases, a hacker may have gained access...

New Zealand-based fuel supplier Z Energy Ltd on Wednesday said it has been presented with evidence that customer data from its Z Card Online database was accessed by a third party in November 2017. The database held customer data such as names, addresses, registration numbers, vehicle types and credit limits with the company, Z Energy said in a statement. The data accessed did not include bank details, pin numbers or information that would put customer...