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According to The Register, the CyberVor gang is using the 1.2 billion stockpile of compromised login credentials, but LA-based domain registrar and hosting firm Namecheap has warned that hackers have begun using the list to try to access its users' accounts.   Namecheap said it had become aware of the ongoing assaults thanks to alerts from its intrusion detection systems of a "much higher than normal load against our login system username and password data gathered...

According to Bizjournal, so far, the company has not released any further information about the possible intrusion, including how many stores were affected, how widespread the breach could be or how long it may have lasted or what else it may be doing to protect customers. It also said that there are no notifications to customers on the company's home page, its Twitter feed or Facebook page.   Crisis communications specialist Jon Austin said that, while...

The Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK) has one of the most active cyber warfare footprints of any nation on earth and appears obsessed with expanding its operations.   According to HP and reported by Techworld,North Korea doesn’t actually do that much from North Korea, relying instead of cells planted in other parts of the world, particularly China, and even inside sworn enemy South Korea.   As the company notes, the DPRK’s hacking Unit 121...

Turkey has summoned the top US diplomat in the country following reports of United States spying.   According to Der Spiegel, the US partnered extensively with Britain to surveil Turkey's leadership, and this has led to the US charge d'affaires being summoned to the Foreign Ministry to demand an explanation.   The United States does not currently have an ambassador to Turkey as the Senate has held up the confirmation of nominee John Bass, formerly...

A senior police officer has warned that his force does not have the ‘capacity’ to protect people from online fraud amidst an ever escalating threat from cyber criminals and hackers.   City of London police commissioner Adrian Leppard has urged individuals to take greater responsibility for their own online security after conceding that ‘clearly there isn’t a capacity to deal with all fraud’. He also said that current investigative resources were ‘a drop in the...

Apple has admitted that it is “actively investigating” the violation of several of its iCloud accounts, saying it takes “user privacy very seriously”.   Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris told Recode that it is actively investigating the leak of celebrity nude images, apparently seized from personal iCloud accounts at the weekend.   The company hasn’t yet said anything definitive about how the attacks were carried out, but security researchers at the security firm FireEye examined the...

The FBI is reportedly chasing the individual suspected of accessing and distributing celebrity nude images.   According to the Daily Mail, the “chief hacker” has gone on the run and said he would be relocating as he thanked his ‘supporters’ who apparently shared the images on AnonIB before they were reposted on forum 4chan on Sunday.   One of the victims, Jennifer Lawrence, has reported the stolen image to the authorities, and the FBI is...

69 per cent of IT professionals experience phishing attacks at least once a week, with customer data cited most often as the type of data attacked, followed by financial information.   According to HP, and reported by Net-Security, seven out of ten attacks generated within the network perimeter stem from a malware-infected host highlighting the importance of taking a layered approach to security to block suspicious communications at every point on the network—from the perimeter...

Hundreds of nude, semi-nude, and revealing pictures of female celebrities were leaked overnight after being stolen from their private collections.   According to The Verge, actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst and pop star Ariana Grande were among the celebrities apparently shown in the pictures, which were posted on web forum 4chan.   It's unclear how the images were obtained, but anonymous 4chan users said that they were taken from celebrities' iCloud accounts. The accounts are designed to allow...

The Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) has been launched to strengthen the fight against cybercrime in the European Union and beyond.   Hosted at the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, the J-CAT, which is being piloted for six months, will coordinate international investigations with partners working side-by-side to take action against key cybercrime threats and top targets.   The J-CAT will be led by Andy Archibald, Deputy Director of the National Cyber Crime Unit from the...