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A post appeared recently on Facebook, one in line of the many similar “claim-to-be-shocking-you posts” features a pregnant lady at the beach, promising to amaze viewers upon clicking the “Play” icon, warning it to be revealing and disturbing, what happens instead is upon clicking, viewer is directed to a phony Facebook host page, where a pop up appears in front of you to share it on Facebook before you are able to see the video. View full story

The recent overseas hacking attack on China’s internet infrastructure caused large number of requests to wrong pages for days; the question is was it a targeted cyber attacks or government inside job against U.S? China has seen an increasing number of cyber threats on their network infrastructure which is highly vulnerable to overseas cyber attacks, internet users have reported that they being redirected to wpk.org and ptraveler.com when they try to access popular foreign websites...

A website dedicated in memorial for the death camp Mauthausen was defaced recently. The Local (in Austria) reported, "The website of the national memorial site at Mauthausen, a former concentration camp, was hacked into on Thursday night and its content replaced with images of child pornography, the Interior Ministry confirmed on Friday." The article claimed the website was taken down and an investigation has begun. View full story

Saudi Arabia along with its allies is fighting a war in Yemen while their hackers are fighting an online war against Iran, accusing the country of supporting Houthi forces. A Saudi hacker going with the handle of RxR HaCker hacked and defaced the official website of Iranian Ministry of Defense, Thursday night. View full story

A security firm has identified a malvertising campaign that is using a fraudulent Flash advert as its exploit to target dozens of adult websites. Jérôme Segura, Senior Security Researcher at Malwarebytes, observes in a blog post how the campaign is particularly noticeable given the number and popularity of the affected sites. View full story

With the Conservative Party election majority scarcely a few hours old, Theresa May has indicated the party could revive the so-called “snoopers’ charter” to monitor electronic communications. View full story

Antivirus ratings firms AV‐Comparatives, AV-Test, and Virus Bulletin have stripped another company of its rankings for trying to game their tests. This time the culprit was Chinese giant Tencent, which is accused of compromising its own security systems for the sake of speed credits in testing. READ MORE

New Zealand's National Cyber Security Centre, a division of the Government Communications Security Service (GCSB), warned organisations overnight of an extortion campaign targeting New Zealand organisations. An unknown group is threatening denial of service attacks unless a payment is made, the NCSC said. READ MORE

Lenovo has patched critical flaws in its computers that allow an attacker to compromise the System Update service. As its name implies, Lenovo's System Update feature downloads system updates from the Internet. Security researchers at IOActive however identified multiple vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to wreak havoc. READ MORE

The ability of criminals to hide their electronic communications and digital evidence of misdeeds is a serious and increasing obstacle to law enforcement, one of the U.S. government’s top prosecutors said. “One of the challenges we face,” Acting Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told a convention of criminal investigators on Monday, “is educating the public that the ‘going dark’ problem is real and growing.” READ MORE