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Paymark is investigating a claim its new Click sales platform has been compromised with malware. A user posted on the New Zealand section of popular web forum Reddit claiming they were trying to purchase tickets to an event through website EventsAIR, when they were redirected to a fake Microsoft website. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Newshub

A group of boffins working at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believe that “private” browsing modes aren't private, so have given developers a framework to fix it. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

A group of boffins working at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believe that “private” browsing modes aren't private, so have given developers a framework to fix it. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

An advertising network is hiding in-browser cryptocurrency miners (cryptojacking scripts) in the ads it serves on customer sites, and has been doing so since December 2017, according to revelations made over the weekend by the Qihoo 360 Netlab team. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

Russian military spies are believed to have hacked hundreds of computers at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and attempted to shift the blame onto North Korea. US intelligence officials, who spoke to the Washington Post anonymously, said Russian agents compromised about 300 computers used by Olympics authorities, hacked routers and distributed new malicious malware leading up to and during the sporting event's opening ceremonies. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

Russian military spies are believed to have hacked hundreds of computers at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and attempted to shift the blame onto North Korea. US intelligence officials, who spoke to the Washington Post anonymously, said Russian agents compromised about 300 computers used by Olympics authorities, hacked routers and distributed new malicious malware leading up to and during the sporting event's opening ceremonies. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

A "critical" security flaw on T-Mobile's website that could have allowed hackers to hijack customers' accounts has been uncovered by a British teen who tried to hack the accounts of multiple senior US government officials. Security researcher Kane Gamble, 18, found and reported the bug via the mobile carrier's bug bounty programme through HackerOne on 19 December last year, Motherboard first reported. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

A "critical" security flaw on T-Mobile's website that could have allowed hackers to hijack customers' accounts has been uncovered by a British teen who tried to hack the accounts of multiple senior US government officials. Security researcher Kane Gamble, 18, found and reported the bug via the mobile carrier's bug bounty programme through HackerOne on 19 December last year, Motherboard first reported. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

Two Democratic US senators have formally asked Uncle Sam's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency to get its act together on electronic passports. In 2005, America began issuing passports with implanted machine-readable RFID chips that contain the traveler's personal information. This data is cryptographically signed so that if the information is later altered, these changes can be detected and stern questions asked. Also, counterfeit passports should be obvious because they won't have a valid digital signature. Two...

Two Democratic US senators have formally asked Uncle Sam's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency to get its act together on electronic passports. In 2005, America began issuing passports with implanted machine-readable RFID chips that contain the traveler's personal information. This data is cryptographically signed so that if the information is later altered, these changes can be detected and stern questions asked. Also, counterfeit passports should be obvious because they won't have a valid digital signature. Two...