Security
State-sponsored hackers in DNS hijacking campaign targeting government networks - Cisco Talos
Espionage campaign has compromised the websites of more than 40 organisations over the past two years
Legal opinion: Why Bounty was smacked with a £400,000 fine
Wedlake Bell's James Castro-Edwards explains why Bounty received such a big fine under the old Data Protection Act - which would almost certainly have been much larger under GDPR
Drupal releases urgent security patches for several 'moderately critical' flaws
The vulnerabilities affect the third-party libraries in Drupal 8.6, Drupal 8.5 and Drupal 7
EU votes to fine internet giants four per cent of turnover if they fail to remove extremist content
New laws aimed squarely at Facebook, Twitter and Google
Russian bill to filter internet traffic via government-controlled servers set to become law
Stable Runet Law justified by government on security grounds
UK porn website age verification laws to come in on 15th July
BBFC to oversee age-verification process, awarding certificates to providers that achieve privacy and data security standards
Oracle releases Critical Patch Update addressing 296 vulnerabilities
MySQL alone accounted for fixes for 44 vulnerabilities in Oracle's latest patch batch, while Fusion Middleware has 53 security flaws patched
Morrisons granted permission to take appeal over staff data breach pay-out to Supreme Court
More than 5,000 Morrisons staff are seeking compensation over the March 2014 data breach, caused by a disgruntled auditor
Kaspersky claims credit for finding critical Windows security flaw being actively exploited in the wild
While patched last week, Kaspersky claims attackers are exploiting the flaw in a string of new attacks to take full control of targets' PCs
Wipro investigates security breach believed to be perpetrated by state-sponsored attacker
Wipro systems compromised following phishing campaign used to target 'at least a dozen' clients, according to insiders
Microsoft admits to three-month long Outlook account hack
Only a limited number of accounts potentially compromised, claims Microsoft
How to tackle formjacking and avoid becoming Magecart's next victim
Netskope's Paolo Passeri explains why organisations need to systematically audit their ecommerce sites - regularly
Popular video and sound editing website VSDC hacked to propagate banking Trojans
Researchers blame poor website security for the attack that compromised users' PCs with banking Trojan malware
Microsoft releases new security framework for Windows 10
New Windows 10 security framework mimics the DEFCON levels used by US armed forces
ASML admits intellectual property loss to firm linked to Chinese government
ASML plays down industrial espionage claiming that it was not part of a 'national conspiracy'
Thousands of Amazon workers listen in on Alexa recordings
Amazon says the information gleaned from Alexa recordings enables it to better train its speech recognition systems
Julian Assange arrested under US extradition warrant following expulsion from Embassy of Ecuador in London
Home Office: "Julian Assange was arrested in relation to a provisional extradition request from the United States of America."
Hackers exploit cross-site scripting vulnerability in WordPress plugin to attack Mailgun site
None of the applications, including the APIs, dashboard and customer data, were affected by the attack
Security flaws in WPA3 allow attackers to hack passwords
Vulnerabilities in WPA3 enable attackers to take control of Wi-Fi networks and crack encrypted passwords
Triton malware group found in second compromised facility
Russia-linked hacking group rumbled when malware caused controllers to initiate an automatic safety shutdown, claimed FireEye
Lazarus rises: Warning over new HOPLIGHT malware linked with North Korea
The new malware is thought to be the work of North Korean state-linked hacking group HIDDEN COBRA, aka Lazarus Group
TajMahal spyware framework with a sophisticated, previously unseen code base discovered by researchers
The TajMahal APT framework has been active for at least the past five years
Seventy-four Microsoft vulnerabilities fixed in April Patch Tuesday
Adobe has also released seven updates fixing 43 security flaws - but Shockwave will remain unpatched against seven critical vulnerabilities
Researchers find phishing sites distributing the iOS version of Exodus Android spyware
Exodus is thought to be linked to eSurv, a business unit of Connexxa - currently under investigation by Italian authorities
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