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Dr. Liam Fox will today call for cyber security to come under the remit of a single minister in the government, and add his voice to growing calls for the introduction of a new law that would force companies to inform shareholders and other stakeholders, such as customers with accounts, if it is hacked. Speaking at the defence and security think tank the Royal United Servicse Institute (RUSI), the former defence secretary will say: "Although...

European data center services giant Interxion is informing customers that it has suffered a security breach, which has seen hackers access contact information stored in its CRM about corporate clients and prospects. In an email seen by this website, and sent to affected customers this weekend, the company explained that it became aware of the security incident in December that saw a hacker access Interxion's CRM system and run a report that contained information on...

Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google’s Project Zero vulnerability research team, publicly disclosedcritical vulnerabilities in TrendMicro Antivirus that could be exploited to execute malicious code on the targeted system. Ormandy took only about 30 seconds to find the first code-execution vulnerability affecting the TrendMicro antivirus program. An attacker could exploit the security flaws to access contents of a password manager built into the TrendMicro security solution. The attackers can view hashed passwords and the plaintext Internet domains...

Juniper Networks, which last month made the startling announcement its NetScreen line of firewalls contained unauthorized code that can surreptitiously decrypt traffic sent through virtual private networks, said it will remove a National Security Agency-developed function widely suspected of also containing a backdoor for eavesdropping. The networking company said in a blog post published Friday that it will ship product releases in the next six months that remove the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator from NetScreen...

A simple, yet effective flaw discovered on eBay's website exposed hundreds of millions of its customers to an advance Phishing Attack. An Independent Security Researcher reported a critical vulnerability to eBay last month that had the capability to allow hackers to host a fake login page, i.e. phishing page, on eBay website in an effort to steal users' password and harvest credentials from millions of its users. The researchers, nicknamed MLT, said anyone could have...

A WordPress security release, version 4.4.1, patches more than 50 problems, including a cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting versions 4.4 and earlier. The patch fixes a total of 52 bugs, none identified as critical, along with several non-security related updates including emoji support to include the latest characters, a fix to allow sites with older versions of OpenSSL to now communicate with other services and repairing an issue where a re-used blog post URL could be...

A 26-year-old Turkish hacker named Onur Kopçak was sentenced Sunday to 135 years in prison for stealing 11 people's credit card information and selling it to other cyber criminals. With this new sentence approved by the Mersin third Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction and his previous 199-year sentence from 2013, Kopçak will serve a record 334 years in prison. Kopçak was convicted for a similar hacking scheme he and 11 other young hackers had carried...

We've probably all encountered those bogus "Windows Support" phone calls, and I'm sure most know that the calls are a scam. Dell customers, on the other hand, aren't so lucky. News is breaking this week that Dell's customer service database is in the hands of scammers. There are numerous reports of Dell customers receiving phone calls from "support techs" that knew everything about a customer, including the customer's name, email, account info, and everything down to...

Criminals behind some of the most potent exploit kits, Neutrino and RIG, are ramping up attacks slinging the latest ransomware and hosing users who have not applied recent Adobe Flash patches. The patched vulnerabilities permit code execution and allow the dangerous hacking kits to compromise user machines. The two above-mentioned exploit kits jostle for top spot on the evilware charts, with speedy exploitation of Flash vulnerabilities giving one the edge over the other. Damage inflicted...

Jeremy Corbyn's twitter was hacked over the weekend, with reports saying a trickster posted at least 4 tweets from his official account. The prime ministerial hopeful found his account taken over around 9am GMT on Sunday. However, the attack did not seem to be particularly devastating and had an immature edge to it. Albeit immature, one message which stated "davey cameron is a pie" was received with delight from the Twitter community. Other messages included what...