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New CrowdStrike report shows blurring of state-sponsored and cybercrime hacking methods. A wave of surprising twists in both nation-state and cybercrime-related cyberattacks in the past year along with increasing overlap in their tools and tactics has ushered in a new era where all is not what it seems. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE:

New CrowdStrike report shows blurring of state-sponsored and cybercrime hacking methods. A wave of surprising twists in both nation-state and cybercrime-related cyberattacks in the past year along with increasing overlap in their tools and tactics has ushered in a new era where all is not what it seems. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE:

A report from Australia's Audit Office said the Electoral Commission ditched government IT security frameworks ahead of the election, but the AEC boss told Senate Estimates last night he was 'satisfied' with the risks that were accepted. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

A report from Australia's Audit Office said the Electoral Commission ditched government IT security frameworks ahead of the election, but the AEC boss told Senate Estimates last night he was 'satisfied' with the risks that were accepted. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed legislation to make it easier to penalize operators of websites that facilitate online sex trafficking, chipping away at a bedrock legal shield for the technology industry. The bill’s passage marks one of the most concrete actions in recent years from the U.S. Congress to tighten regulation of internet firms, which have drawn heavy scrutiny from lawmakers in both parties over the past year due to an...

An unknown hacker has returned over 20,000 more ETH worth over $17m to CoinDash just months after the firm was hacked last year. In July 2017, CoinDash lost millions of dollars worth of Ethereum just three minutes after the cryptocurrency portfolio management platform launched its initial coin offering (ICO) by swapping the firm's wallet address for their own. At the time, the losses were estimated at $7m. Following the hack, CoinDash promised investors, who sent money...

Surveillance feeds from four schools were among hundreds of British security systems broken into and streamed on a creepy US website. Dad Szczepan Warhol, 40, a parent at the breached St Mary’s Catholic Academy in Blackpool, said: “It’s completely shocking. “I think they should have CCTV at the school to make it secure, but they need to improve this situation now.” Another parent fumed: “It’s really bad. They’ve got cameras everywhere around the school and...

Chinese websites have recently been targeted by a drive-by download campaign that dropped a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) bot by the name of Avzhan, a malware that has been around since 2010. The most recent attacks were spotted by Malwarebytes Labs researchers, who say that the bizarre patterns of this particular drive-by download were not advanced, but they did demonstrate the use of several different exploits to distribute malware. “For years we have cataloged...

Half of U.S. adults in a new survey said they have not looked at their credit report or credit score since a huge data breach last year…at credit scoring company Equifax compromised the personal information of at least 145.5 million U.S. consumers. CreditCards.com's latest study also found that 18 percent of the 1,164 adults surveyed have never checked their credit report or credit score. "If the announcement of something that significant won't get people to act, then it raises...

Security researcher Troy Hunt has added more than 80 million records from nearly 3,000 new data breaches to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). That is so many records that it is currently ranked as the 15th biggest data breach on Have I Been Pwned. Each record contained an email address and plaintext password, but the entire list was unfortunately loaded under a single “unverified” data breach. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CSO Online