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Police have raided homes in five European countries as part of a malware investigation, according to agency reports. Officers in the UK, Germany, France, Belgium and Switzerland raided several properties connected to suspected users of malware known as DroidJack. DroidJack allows criminals to spy on smartphone data traffic, eavesdrop on conversations and hijack the camera. No arrests have yet been reported as a result of the raids. The searches were reported by the AFP and...

The EU parliament has approved an update of European police college rules to help Cepol keep pace with security threats such as cyber crime. Training and co-operation across Europe’s national police authorities is to be stepped up by the EU’s police college Cepol to counter cyber crime, organised crime and terrorist threats after the European Parliament approved an update of the rules to help it keep pace with developing security threats. “The urgency and continuous development...

Ronald Pontius, deputy to the US Army Cyber Command's commanding general was reported inNational Defense as saying earlier this month:  “On one hand we can feel very positive of our pace of progress that we're making, but when you put that in context of what the threat is and the pace of change of the threat and the significance of the threat, you can't but come to the conclusion that we're not making progress at the...

Last year, German hacking collective, Chaos Computer club, announced that they can reproduce a real fingerprint based on a simple photograph of the person’s finger. Jan Krissler who is popularly known as Starbug demonstrated in a conference how an image of fingerprint can be converted into a real fingerprint. He showed the images of Ursula von der Leyen’s (German Federal Minister) fingers he took in October 2014. Then he showed the image of the fingerprints...

Police have made a second arrest, a 16-year-old boy from west London, in connection with the TalkTalk hacking. He was arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences after detectives searched a Feltham address, and later bailed, Scotland Yard said. On Tuesday, a 15-year-old boy arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the attack was released on bail pending further inquiries. The TalkTalk website was hit by a "significant" cyber-attack" last week. The phone and broadband provider,...

The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) has sent breach notification letters to 1,581 patients of its Brooklyn Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, after a laptop computer was discovered to have been stolen. The laptop computer was password protected, but data stored on its hard drive had not been encrypted. As a result, the Protected Health Information of some of its patients could potentially have been compromised. Data potentially exposed in the incident include...

Video gamers have found themselves in a new type of scam. No malware or hacking into the games rather a simple phishing scam which is filling scammers’ pockets. Scammers have been found sending emails to the gamers portraying as the officials from the gaming companies claiming that they will take legal action against those involved in selling game characters and credits for real time money. By tricking the gamers into believing their emails, the cyber criminals actually...

The world’s most popular Free Web Hosting company 000Webhost has suffered a major data breach, exposing more than 13.5 Million of its customers' personal records.The stolen data includes usernames, passwords in plain text, email addresses, IP addresses and last names of around 13.5 Million of 000Webhost's customers.According to a recent report published by Forbes, the Free Hosting service provider 000Webhost was hacked in March 2015 by an anonymous hacker. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Hacker News

The online hacktivist Anonymous is planning to leak personal information of around 1000 members of the white supremacist Christian organization the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Last year, anonymous gave a brutal response to Ku Klux Klan when they threatened the Ferguson protestors. Many of KKK’s websites went offline; members were exposed (their identities were made public) and twitter accounts of many its members were hacked. Sensing the potential danger, many of the KKK’s members left the group and the group...

British Gas has contacted about 2,200 of its customers to warn them that their email addresses and account passwords were posted online. It says, however, that it does not think its own systems were breached. The affected accounts have been disabled following the discovery. No bank account or payment card details would have been revealed, but the logins could have been used to view users' names, addresses and past energy bills. An email sent to...