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Over 130,000 Finnish citizens have had their credentials compromised in what appears to be third largest data breach ever faced by the country, local media reports. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Hacker News

Terrorist organisations and individuals are evading security services and intelligence agencies by “hiding in the shadows” of the darknet, using encrypted messaging services, to communicate and anonymous cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin to generate funds. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian

The message “Don’t mess with our elections” followed by a U.S. flag appeared on Iranian and Russian screens after a hacker group exploited Cisco Smart Install Client on vulnerable machines. The hackers claim to have targeted only the computer infrastructure in Iran and Russia during the attack on Friday night. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CSO Online

A hack on an Arizona election database during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign was carried out by suspected criminal actors and not the Russian government, a senior Trump administration official told Reuters on Sunday. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters

Facebook was warned by security researchers that attackers could abuse its phone number and email search facility to harvest people's data. On Wednesday, the firm said "malicious actors" had been harvesting profiles for years by abusing the search tool. It said anybody that had not changed their privacy settings after adding their phone number should assume their information had been harvested. One security expert told the BBC the attack had been possible "for years". View...

Hackers are feared to have swiped sensitive personal information held by two of the best known companies in the US – after malware infected a customer support software maker. Both Sears and Delta Air Lines said Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of customers' payment card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV security codes, were potentially extracted by the malware and siphoned to its masterminds. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Hackers are feared to have swiped sensitive personal information held by two of the best known companies in the US – after malware infected a customer support software maker. Both Sears and Delta Air Lines said Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of customers' payment card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV security codes, were potentially extracted by the malware and siphoned to its masterminds. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Three months after news first leaked, Microsoft officially announced today the launch of new anti-ransomware features for Office 365, the company's commercial subscription-based office tools suite. The new feature is called File Restore and is a OneDrive feature that will allow users to go back in time and restore files to a previous state from the past 30 days. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

North Korea maintains a hacking base in China, the UK Parliament's Defence Select Committee has been told, while government snooping body GCHQ struggles to retain "cyber-staff". Then there's the slightly greater concern that the communist nation could nuke Britain "within a few years". The House of Commons' Defence Committee published its latest report, Rash or rational? North Korea and the threat it poses today. As well as setting out the Norks' nuclear, cyber and chemical...

North Korea maintains a hacking base in China, the UK Parliament's Defence Select Committee has been told, while government snooping body GCHQ struggles to retain "cyber-staff". Then there's the slightly greater concern that the communist nation could nuke Britain "within a few years". The House of Commons' Defence Committee published its latest report, Rash or rational? North Korea and the threat it poses today. As well as setting out the Norks' nuclear, cyber and chemical...