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With only a few weeks until implementation, more than 50% of investment firms globally are unlikely to be ready for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May 2018. This is according to a global industry survey of over 250 financial firms carried out by Cordium and AmberGate. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security

The team behind Electrum, a Bitcoin wallet app, has exposed a copycat product named Electrum Pro as a malicious app that steals users' seed keys. Electrum developers made their accusations in a document published on GitHub yesterday. The document contains a step-by-step guide to decompiling a rival product named Electrum Pro that popped up online two months ago in March. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

A possible data breach has left some 30,000 Goodyear utility customers vulnerable. The City says it learned Monday about an apparent issue with its bill pay systems when a customer informed city officials of fraudulent activity on their bank account. “We took immediate action and shut down the online payment system,” says Sherine Zaya, a spokeswoman for the City of Goodyear. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: AZ Family

LG has patched two severe vulnerabilities that reside in the default keyboard on all mainstream LG smartphones, including its flagship handsets; the flaws could be used to remotely execute code with elevated privileges. LG’s update also includes a fix for a critical Android issue, from Google. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Threatpost

With a cybersecurity talent shortage projected to hit 1.8 million unfilled roles by 2020, the industry must start attracting younger workers to fill jobs and protect businesses. However, the field faces a problem: Only 9% of millennials said they are interested in pursuing a cybersecurity career at some point in their lives, according to a Tuesday report from ProtectWise and Enterprise Strategy Group. The lack of interest in cybersecurity does not stem from a lack of interest...

Malaysian politicians on Wednesday (May 9) say their mobile phones have been hacked and are being spammed by calls allegedly originating from the United States. "BN leaders' handphones have been under technical attack since morning," said Barisan Nasional (BN) Strategic Communications director Datuk Seri Rahman Dahlan. "Calls from overseas keep coming in every few seconds! To prevent us from communicating with our machinery," tweeted the Sepanggar parliamentary candidate. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Straits Times

“I’m Hacked. bye2” – That’s the message left behind on most of the hacked Canon security cameras in Japan. Over 60 cameras were hijacked and defaced on Sunday, but dozens more had been hacked over the last several weeks. Some victims reportedly are locked out of their cameras; they can’t control them and they can’t correct the defacement. That’s because they didn’t bother to change the default password, but the attacker did. As of right now, only Canon...

“I’m Hacked. bye2” – That’s the message left behind on most of the hacked Canon security cameras in Japan. Over 60 cameras were hijacked and defaced on Sunday, but dozens more had been hacked over the last several weeks. Some victims reportedly are locked out of their cameras; they can’t control them and they can’t correct the defacement. That’s because they didn’t bother to change the default password, but the attacker did. As of right now, only Canon...

Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and some implementations of Xen have a design flaw that could allow attackers to, at best, crash Intel and AMD-powered computers. At worst, miscreants can, potentially, "gain access to sensitive memory information or control low-level operating system functions,” which is a fancy way of saying peek at kernel memory, or hijack the critical code running the machine. The vulnerabilities can be exploited by malware running on a computer, or a malicious...

Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and some implementations of Xen have a design flaw that could allow attackers to, at best, crash Intel and AMD-powered computers. At worst, miscreants can, potentially, "gain access to sensitive memory information or control low-level operating system functions,” which is a fancy way of saying peek at kernel memory, or hijack the critical code running the machine. The vulnerabilities can be exploited by malware running on a computer, or a malicious...