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UK police make fifth arrest in TalkTalk hack inquiry

November 25, 2015 creative attack, cell-phone, computer-screen, investigations, london, matloff-goler, music-rights, page-on-its, parental-leave, party-claiming, police-said, said-on-oct, shows-details, united, youth

An 18-year-old youth from Wales who was detained on Tuesday in the fifth arrest connected to a cyber attack on telecoms company TalkTalk was bailed on Wednesday pending further investigations, police said in a statement. Police searched an address in the town of Llanelli on Tuesday and took the youth into custody on suspicion of blackmail. TalkTalk said on Oct

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TalkTalk hires BAE Systems to investigate cyber attack

October 25, 2015 admin attack, bodies-manage, carson, cyber-attack, give-further, national-press, party, sometimes-less

By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) – British broadband provider TalkTalk said on Sunday it had hired defense company BAE Systems to investigate a cyber attack that may have led to the theft of personal data from its more than 4 million customers. TalkTalk said on Friday it had received a ransom demand from an unidentified party for the attack, which has led to calls for greater regulation of how companies and public bodies manage personal data. “BAE Systems are supporting us as we investigate this week's cyber attack,” a spokeswoman for TalkTalk said, declining to give further details due to the ongoing investigation

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Apple’s iOS App Store suffers first major attack

September 21, 2015 admin apple, attack, bangkok, cyber-security, large-numbers, malicious-apps, networks, programs-making, reseller-shop, said-on-sunday, sales-assistant, shows-features, store, stringent-app, the-popular

By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – Apple Inc said on Sunday it is cleaning up its iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in the first large-scale attack on the popular mobile software outlet. It is the first reported case of large numbers of malicious software programs making their way past Apple's stringent app review process. Prior to this attack, a total of just five malicious apps had ever been found in the App Store, according to cyber security firm Palo Alto Networks Inc

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Italian cyber-security firm suspects foreign government was behind mass attack

July 12, 2015 creative attack, broadcast-live, chicago, estranged-local, hacking, over-phones, subsequent, their-disposal

Italian cyber-security firm Hacking Team said a government might have been behind a massive hack of its systems and warned that the subsequent leaking of its computer codes could prove a field day for criminals. Unknown hackers last week downloaded 400GB of data from the firm, which makes surveillance software that allows law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tap into the phones and computers of suspects

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Pentagon says security at bases in U.S. highest in four years

May 8, 2015 admin attack, caribbean, colonel, continental, edward-snowden, from-the-shame, islamic-state, united, wife

The U.S. military has ordered security at its bases around the United States to the highest level in nearly four years, Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said on Friday. The heightened security level covered everything from recruiting stations to National Guard posts and military bases and camps in the continental United States, Alaska and U.S.