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The personal details and payment card data of guests from hundreds of hotels, if not more, have been stolen this month by an unknown attacker, Bleeping Computer has learned. The data was taken from FastBooking, a Paris-based company that sells hotel booking software to more than 4,000 hotels in 100 countries —as it claims on its website. In emails the company sent out to affected hotels today, FastBooking revealed the breach took place on June...

Professor Peter Roberts, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, warned that Britain will struggle to cope with emerging threats without a massive increase in spending. Speaking ahead of a naval arms fair in Glasgow, he said the UK would need to invest 10 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence over the next decade in order to catch up with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The...

Cyber attacks on the health care sector have continued into this week too. The latest attack resulted in the compromise of approximately 270,000 patient records after Med Associates suffered a data breach. The firm confirms that the breached data may have included personal details of the patients. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Latest Hacking News

A security researcher took to his Twitter account on Friday to reveal a bug on iOS devices that can allow passcodes to be bypassed through a brute force attack. The video demonstration caused Apple to push back calling the finding an "error." Co-founder of cybersecurity firm Hacker House Matthew Hickey posted a video where he exhibited a method that allowed him to enter an unlimited number of passcodes even on the latest version of iOS 11.3. View Full...

Upcoming additions to the WebAssembly standard may render useless some of the mitigations put up at the browser level against Meltdown and Spectre attacks, according to John Bergbom, a security researcher at Forcepoint. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

A group of researchers has demonstrated that smartphone batteries can offer a side-channel attack vector by revealing what users do with their devices through analysis of power consumption. Both snitching and exfiltration were described in this paper (PDF), accepted for July's Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Recently to prevent cryptocurrency extracting malware from functioning on the gadgets of naïve users, Apple andGoogle have applied new policies. Both have set forbidden on any application or extension -- for Googleits Chrome extensions and for Apple every gadget -- associatedwith mining, ever though the applications are functioning as per rules. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Spam Fighter

The balance between security and law enforcement is often an issue for tech companies. The American Civil Liberties Union wants to tip the scales in security's favor. On Thursday, the ACLU released its guide to developers on how to respond to government demands when the requests require companies to compromise their own security. It happens a lot more often than you probably think. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CNET

With online gaming hit Fornite set to make its debut on Android, malware writers are already playing on the game's hype to ensnare victims. Multiple reports have emerged of Android malware packages being disguised as the Epic Games multi-player battle royale-style shooting game, and experts want users to exercise caution , and make sure friends and family do the same, when seeking out copies of the game. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Almost a third of UK organizations have sacked an employee as a result of data breach negligence, according to new research from Shred-it’s Security Tracker report. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine