DomainFactory, German Web Hosting Provider Owned by GoDaddy, Admits Major Data Breach

https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/web-hosting-server-hack.html

All customers are advised to change all of their following passwords:

—User password
—Phone password
—FTP/Live disk passwords
—SSH passwords
—MySQL database passwords

Timehop Data Breach — Hackers stole personal data on entire 21 million users, who signed-up with the popular app that shows users activity from other social media sites of the "same day a year ago"

https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/timehop-data-breach.html

Microsoft Releases Patch Updates for 53 Vulnerabilities In Its Software
https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/microsoft-security-patch-update.html

Software Packages Containing Malware Found On Arch Linux User Repository (AUR) —by @Swati_THN

https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/arch-linux-aur-malware.html

Always Double-Check What You're Downloading & Installing.

Gaza Cybergang APT Group Returns With New Attacks On Palestinian Authority After One Year — by @security_wang

https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/gaza-palestin-hacker.html
Read More About the Big Bang Cyber Attack Campaign...

21-Year-Old Creator of LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Pleads Guilty https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/luminositylink-hacking-tool.html

12 Russian Intelligence Agents Indicted For Hacking DNC Emails https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/russian-dnc-hack-trump.html

Microsoft launches a new Bug Bounty program—offering up to $100,000 in reward for finding bugs in its Identity Services


https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/microsoft-bug-bounty.html 👍👍👍

European Union Fines #Google a Record $5 Billion in #Android Antitrust Case


https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/google-android-antitrust-fine.html


That's the largest ever antitrust penalty against a company for breaching competition law in the EU.

Apple transferred #iCloud data of its 130 million Chinese users to the Cloud Data Centers managed by a state-controlled Telecom provider.

https://t.co/uIurIPATMJ

The storage deal eventually could make it easier for the Chinese government to snoop on users' iCloud data.

Exploiting a Windows 10 PagedPool off-by-one overflow

https://j00ru.vexillium.org/2018/07/exploiting-a-windows-10-pagedpool-off-by-one/

j00ru has shared full source code of the exploit on GitHub

Singapore's largest healthcare group – SingHealth – suffers a massive data breach
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Hackers stole personal information on 1.5 million patients (a quarter of the country's population) and outpatient dispensed medication data on some 160,000 patients.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/singapore-healthcare-breach.html

Microsoft revealed that Russian hackers also tried to hack three 2018 US midterm election candidates —by @Swati_THN

https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/russia-election-hacking.html …

(Fancy Bear, APT28, Strontium, Sofacy)

Data Transfer Project—An Open Source Data Portability Initiative by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter—Lets You Easily, Securely and Directly Transfer Your Data From One Online Service to Another

https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/google-data-transfer-project.html

Egypt passes a new controversial law that allows government to monitor, block and prosecute citizens with more than 5000 followers on social media for sharing fake news

https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/social-media-fake-news-law.html

New Bluetooth Vulnerability (CVE-2018-5383)—Cryptographic implementation flaw in Firmware/Drivers affects devices from major vendors including Apple, Broadcom, Intel & Qualcomm. Attackers can intercept, decrypt, forge messages/traffic or inject malware.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/bluetooth-hack-vulnerability.html

It's happening! Starting today, Google Chrome will mark all HTTP websites as 'Not Secure'

https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/google-chrome-not-secure.html

If you have a website, you need an SSL — it's as simple as that!

Security Bypass Flaw (CVE-2018-14773) in Symfony Component Leaves #Drupal Websites Vulnerable — Patch Now

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/symfony-drupal-hack.html

Same Vulnerability Also Affects Projects Built Using Zend Feed or Diactoros Libraries

MikroTik Routers Are Under Massive Attack — Hackers Infect Over 200,000 Routers to Inject Cryptocurrency Mining Scripts

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/mikrotik-router-hacking.html …

Popular System Optimization Tool – #CCleaner – Introduces Active Monitoring Feature and User Data Collection With No Way to Opt-Out

https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/ccleaner-software-download.html