seoras quotes a report from BBC: A new book by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien is going on sale — 100 years after it was first conceived. Beren and Luthien has been described as a “very personal story”…

A massive malware campaign has already infected 250 million Windows and Mac OS computers worldwide.

Pandemic is a Windows implant built by the CIA that turns file servers into Patient Zero on a local network, infecting machines requesting files with Trojanized replacements.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the ShadowBrokers crowdfunding attempt, errors in WannaCry, a new Wikileaks dump, last week’s Samba vulnerability, and the OneLogin breach.

Rapid7 warned this week that its Nexpose appliances were shipped with a SSH configuration that could have let obsolete algorithms be used for key exchange.

FireEye said threat actors are using the NSA’s EternalBlue exploit of the same Microsoft SMBv1 vulnerability as WannaCry to spread Nitol and Gh0st RAT.

Tech to pick faces out of the crowd can be used for good, but it’s also increasingly pervasive

With so much data apparently exposed via back-end servers, we shouldn’t be surprised if there’s a new wave of thefts and extortion attempts

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IT teams at organisations affected by the OneLogin are in for a busy few days carrying out the recommended steps to secure their stuff