Hacking News

City of London Police announced they arrested four suspects, two men, and two women, on accusations of running tech support scams. Police say Microsoft played a big role in the investigation after “analyzing tens of thousands of [UK] Action Fraud reports and working with other affected organizations […] to attempt to trace the source of […]

A draft of the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018” — which approves the budget and policies for US defensive projects — outlines a ban on the usage of Kaspersky Lab software products at DOD facilities under the explanation that the Russian antivirus vendor “might be vulnerable to Russian government influence.” Read more

Even the least tech-savvy cybercriminals now find it easy to launch large-scale malware campaigns with the dark web offering wannabe criminals more access to tools like ransomware then ever before, the UK’s National Crime Agency has warned. Read more

Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 Insider Preview comes with a host of new enterprise security features, including some that are due for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update that’s expected to be released around September. The new Windows 10 Insider Preview for PCs — build 16232 — is available for Insiders in the “fast” ring, and

AMD has revealed the Ryzen Pro processor range with an eye on enterprise users looking for better security built from the ground up. On Thursday, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor company said the new addition to the firm’s enterprise CPU portfolio is a family of desktop processors, designed to “meet the demands of today’s compute-intensive workplace.” Read

FedEx’s delivery subsidiary TNT Express has warned that its systems have been significantly affected by a computer virus. The company said in a note on its website: “Like many other companies and institutions around the world, we are experiencing interference with some of our systems within the TNT network,” which has lead to speculation that

Security experts are warning of a bug that could allow hackers to craft TCP packets that fool Linux’s initialization deamon systemd, which could cause systems to crash or make them run malicious code. Ubuntu maker Canonical has released a patch to address the issue discovered by Chris Coulson, a software engineer at the firm. Read

Western Australia’s Auditor General has expressed his disappointment that government agencies in the state are not taking simple steps to protect IT systems. In his ninth annual Information Systems Audit Report [PDF], Colin Murphy probed five government agencies and highlighted his frustration in repeating remarks he has made in previous audits. Read more

Cisco has launched its Internet of Things (IoT) Threat Defense solution in an effort to mitigate and solve common security issues threatening the deployment and operation of IoT devices. According to Cisco Product Marketing Industry Solutions manager Marc Blackmer, many vendors and companies don’t see IoT devices as security threats, with Cisco additionally having to

Pakistani citizen Muhammad Sohail Qasmani has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for laundering $19.6 million on behalf of other actors in an international computer hacking and telecommunications fraud scheme, the DoJ reports. He previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Read more