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Kaspersky Lab Creates Bug Bounty Program

Claims to be first time a security vendor has offered rewards for disclosures of vulnerabilities with its products

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Ruckus Routers Found With Multiple Security Flaws

Tripwire research finds Ruckus routers are susceptible to intruders

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Why Airbnb Users And Hosts Must Beware Of WiFi Risks

At Black Hat, a researcher details how both naive users and hosts of the popular accommodation sharing service could be at risk

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Google Releases Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys For Cloud

Google's CSEK moves into GA, meaning all customers can now bring their own encryption keys for Compute Engine

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Web Users Are Still Being Tracked By Their Smartphone’s Battery...

Battery Status API in HTML5 is being used to track user activity, warn security researchers

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Black Hat USA and DefCon: Finding Security Risks in All the Things

PREVIEW: The annual hacker gatherings will bring out new research in car, payment and internet protocol security

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Yahoo ‘Aware’ Of Data Breach Claim

Yahoo said it is investigating reports that 200 million users' data is being sold online

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GhostMail Ends Services ‘To Prevent Misuse’

GhostMail said it doesn't want its encrypted email service used by 'the wrong people'

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IT Worker Jailed For Disabling Citibank Network

The Citibank employee admitted to intentionally taking down 90 percent of the company's network across North America

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BT Security CEO: We’ve Learned The Lessons From TalkTalk Hack

INTERVIEW: BT Security chief Mark Hughes explains how BT protects itself against attacks, how Brexit impacts skills gap and why firms should trust telcos

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WhatsApp ‘Doesn’t Fully Delete Messages’

Deleted WhatsApp messages could be easy to recover, with unencrypted copies stored on iCloud, a researcher finds

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SwiftKey Stops Cloud Sync Following User Data Leak

SwiftKey users reported seeing other users' email addresses and autocorrect suggestions, prompting SwiftKey to shut down its cloud sync service

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AdGholas Malvertising Campaign Closes After Proofpoint Discovery

AdGholas malvertising campaign closes after pulling in at least a million victim computers a day

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Robocall Plague Won’t Be Easy To Solve Despite FCC Call For...

ANALYSIS: Recent FCC pressure is resulting in some movement by carriers to try to quell robocalls, but much needs to be done before anyone sees any real relief

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Stagefright Poses Serious Risks One Year After It First Surfaced

ANALYSIS: One year after the Stagefright Android flaw was first reported, its effects are widespread. More than 100 related flaws have emerged and hundreds of millions of users remain at risk

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Cyber Attack Uses Google Drive To Deliver 9002 Trojan

Hackers use Google Drive to host malicious files that seems to be targeting a number of Asian countries

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KeySniffer Flaw Exposes Wireless Keyboard Typing

Keystrokes from wireless keyboards transmit with no encryption and can be intercepted from hundreds of feet away

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Cisco: Ransomware Is Only Going To Get Worse

Ransomware will exploit server vulnerabilities, proliferate across networks and use encryption to hide itself, says Cisco report

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Security Firms And Police Fight Back Against Ransomware

No More Ransom offers decryption keys to encourage ransomware victims not to pay

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O2 Confirms Customer Data For Sale Online

Details were reportedly stolen using credentials leaked from a gaming site three years ago

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DNC Email Scandal Shows What Must Be Done to Prevent Breaches, Leaks

ANALYSIS: Once again the Democratic Party has been seriously embarrassed by an email leak scandal. But without the leaks the data breach might have been much worse

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Hackers Collect £15,000 For Pornhub Exploit

The attack provided complete access to Pornhub's database and exposed two PHP flaws

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BlackBerry Packs Good Dynamics Apps Into Microsoft Azure

Good Dynamics Secure Mobility Platform now available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

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Estonia Wants UK ‘Data Embassy’ To Protect Citizen Data...

Threat of cyberattacks prompt Estonian officials to investigate possibility of using UK data centres for citizen data

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ONS Figures Show UK Cybercrime Doubled In Past Year

Office for National Statistic report shows that one in ten people are victims of fraud or cybercrime

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‘Apple’s Stagefright’: iOS And Mac Users Urged To...

iOS 9.3.3 and Mac OS X 10.11.6 fix a range of vulnerabilities but none so important as a TIFF flaw that affects all versions

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HTTpoxy Flaw Re-emerges After 15 Years And Gets Fixed

After lying dormant for years, flaws in the HTTP Proxy header used in programming languages and applications, such as PHP, Go and Python, have now been fixed