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Banks have formidable barriers to external cyber attacks, but some are still vulnerable to internal attacks using social engineering, vulnerabilities in web applications and the help of insiders, a report reveals. As soon as attackers access the internal network, they find friendly terrain that is secured no better than companies in other industries, according to a report on cyber attacks on banks by Positive Technologies. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computer Weekly

I was looking through my spam folder today and found a phishing email with the subject line "and has a subject line of "FW: Contact Bank of England: Stop Contacting Scammers.." that took me by surprise. This email pretends to be from the United States Department of Treasury and states that $6.5 million USD is being held for you at the Bank of England and that you should contact them in order to transfer the...

If you use Google Chrome, you may want to think twice about storing your credit card details on the browser. A new malicious software called ‘Vega Stealer’ has been discovered that can steal any credit card details, passwords or files you have stored on either the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers. And Proofpoint , who spotted the malware, has warned that it is set to ‘evolve and grow’, targeting more and more users. View...

Attackers have noticed that the world is getting better at fending off massive distributed denial-of-service attacks, and are trying to overwhelm application processes instead. So says DDoS-deflector Cloudflare, which reckons it's seen a spike in cyber-assaults trying to exhaust high-level server resources, such as per-process CPU time, disk space, and memory allocations, as opposed to overwhelming lower parts of the networking stack. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

The University of Greenwich has been fined £120,000 by the UK Information Commissioner for a serious data breach involving close to 20,000 people. Under the UK's current data protection rules, controllers of information -- such as the university -- are required to take reasonable steps to protect data. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

Cryptocurrency is one of those things that most of us have heard about and maybe even discussed, even if we don't truly understand it. But for those who have a good grasp of it, opportunity awaits. Though there is not a centralized bank for cryptocurrency, it is not immune from people trying to rob it. Unlike the bank heists of the past, these crimes are committed purely online. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Komando

Apple iPhone users take note: A vulnerability that might affect tens of millions of users leaves devices open to dangerous attacks, China-based researchers have warned. The flaw, dubbed ZipperDown, resides in 15,978 iOS apps that have been downloaded 100 million times, according to famous iPhone jailbreakers Pangu Team. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Forbes

A Tesla car was driving in “autopilot” mode when it crashed into a stopped firetruck in Utah, the company said in a report to police that repeatedly cast blame on the driver, not its semi-autonomous driving system. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian

Google has rolled out a free DDoS protection platform called Project Shield to protect news sites and free expression to defend the democratic process. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

The operators of the Satori botnet are mass-scanning the Internet for exposed Ethereum mining rigs, according to three sources in the infosec community who've observed the malicious behavior —SANS ISC, Qihoo 360 Netlab, and GreyNoise Intelligence. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer