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Cyber-attacks by British intelligence services have supported operations against the terror group ISIS, in a first-of-its-kind sustained campaign. The offensive made a significant impact on the operations of the group, also known as Daesh, revealed Jeremy Fleming, director of UK intelligence agency GCHQ. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

Cyber crime is a shared responsibility between businesses, industry experts and individuals, the UK home secretary, Amber Rudd, has declared. Speaking at the National Cyber Security Centre's CyberUK 2018 conference in Manchester on Thursday, Rudd said the UK government is committed to promoting EU cyber cooperation post-Brexit in a new cyber incident classification. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: V3

Hackers can break into the vast majority of targets in less than 15 hours, using freely available open source tools and exploit packs. Nearly half can then exfiltrate high value data in less than an hour, according to 2018’s “Black Report” from Australian security software specialists Nuix – whether they’re using third party access or the aircon as an attack vector. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CBR

Botnet operators and cyber-espionage groups (APTs) are abusing the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol that comes with all modern routers to proxy bad traffic and hide their real location from investigators. In a report published on Monday, Akamai revealed that it detected bad actors abusing at least 65,000 routers to create proxy networks for various types of secret or illegal activities. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

A team of physicists claim to have developed a guaranteed random number generator using photons and the laws of quantum mechanics. Random numbers are used to secure communications, and a good random number generator is essential for strong encryption. But ensuring that the numbers are truly random is difficult. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

If you want your computer to be really secure, disconnect its power cable. So says Mordechai Guri and his team of side-channel sleuths at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The crew have penned a paper titled PowerHammer: Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers through Power Lines that explains how attackers could install malware that regulates CPU utilisation and creates fluctuations in the current flow that could modulate and encode data. The variations would be "propagated through the...

If you want your computer to be really secure, disconnect its power cable. So says Mordechai Guri and his team of side-channel sleuths at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The crew have penned a paper titled PowerHammer: Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers through Power Lines that explains how attackers could install malware that regulates CPU utilisation and creates fluctuations in the current flow that could modulate and encode data. The variations would be "propagated through the...

Great Western Railway has advised customers to reset their passwords after the company's systems were targeted by attackers. The train operator confirmed to Computing that it has identified "a series of automated attempts" to access a "small percentage" of customer accounts. After conducting an investigation, the company found that GWR.com had been targeted and some accounts accessed. However, it told Computing that the overall success rate of the automated attack was "extremely low". View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computing

Russian cybercriminals have targeted the UK in 49 separate incidents over the last six months, the Home Secretary has revealed. Speaking at the National Cyber Security Centre's CYBERUK conference in Manchester, Amber Rudd said there's been "a significant increase in the scale and severity of malicious cyber activity globally" but said that the government "will not tolerate this". View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

Facebook's chief executive has revealed that his data was among that harvested in a privacy scandal. Mark Zuckerberg made the disclosure during his second day of being questioned in Washington. In a related development, the political consultancy at the heart of the affair has announced its acting chief executive is stepping down. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC