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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

Mark Zuckerberg's supposed blockbuster grilling by Congress was the bust it was always going to be, and he went home victorious largely by default. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: New Statesman

Germany’s head of domestic intelligence said on Wednesday there was a “high likelihood” that the Russian government was behind a cyber attack on German computer networks, although he conceded it was difficult to be 100-percent certain. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters

A pair of authentication standards published this week have received endorsement from Mozilla, Microsoft and Google: the WebAuthn API, and the FIDO Alliance's Client-to-Authenticator Protocol. The aim of WebAuthn and CTAP is to offer an authentication primitive that doesn't rely on server-stored passwords, since a user's fingerprint or even their unlock pattern is safer for both user and Web site owner. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Enterprises are adopting the cloud much faster than their security teams can keep up – and misunderstanding about cloud environments is pervasive. The 2018 Enterprise Cloud Trends Report from iboss surveyed IT decision makers and office workers in US enterprises and found that 64% of IT decision makers believe the pace of software as a service (SaaS) application adoption is outpacing their cybersecurity capabilities. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine

The National Cyber Security Centre's CYBERUK conference in Manchester will be the backdrop for the launch of a £9m fund to increase cyber capabilities and tackle organised crime online, focusing on those who use anonymous and hidden online services for illegal activities such as hacking, people trafficking, selling weapons and drug dealing. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Sky News

A security company, Bastille, said Tuesday that it had found a vulnerability in San Francisco’s emergency alert system that would allow hackers to trigger the city’s sirens or even blare out malicious messages. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: McClatchy DC

Facebook detected Russian government hackers targeting the Facebook accounts of campaign officials before the 2016 presidential election, Mark Zuckerberg revealed during a congressional hearing on Tuesday. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Motherboard

A number of high-profile music videos disappeared from YouTube and had their titles and hold images defaced, after the video streaming website was targeted by hackers. This includes the most viewed video of all time 'Despacito' by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Guardian

On April 06, India’s official ministry of defence (MoD) website—mod.gov.in—was reportedly hacked. Instead of the homepage, visitors to the site saw the following message: “The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.” Alongside the error warning, a Mandarin character—meaning either “Zen” or “home”—appeared at the top of the page, media reports said, fueling conjecture that Chinese hackers were responsible for the attack. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: QZ