Security
A recent report from the US Government Accountability Office paints a very bleak picture of the cyber security of modern US weapons systems. 
A new Android trojan, named GPlayed, has been spotted by Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group which says it has an icon very similar to Google Apps… Bahraini dissidents sue British spyware maker Gamma Group
Written by Sam Varghese
British spyware company Gamma Group is facing legal action from four Bahrainis who claim the company knowingly sold its wares to the Bahraini Government knowing… US pollies want memo that warned against disclosing Google+ leak
Written by Sam Varghese
Three Republican senators in the US have written to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai asking him to provide a copy of an internal memo that… Singtel subsidiary buys Australian cyber security firm Hivint
Written by Sam Varghese
Cyber security consulting company Hivint has been acquired by Optus Cyber Security, a subsidiary of Singapore telco Singtel. 
Apparently undeterred by strong criticism of a supply chain attack story it published last week, Bloomberg has put out another yarn, dealing with a similar… 
Security firm RiskIQ has discovered another case of a site breach by the group Magecart, this time against Shopper Approved, a customer rating plugin that… Over 4 billion data records breached in six months: security report
Written by Peter Dinham
More than four billion data records were compromised by data breaches worldwide in the first half of 2018, with six social media breaches accounting for… Bloomberg reporters stand to earn bonuses if chip story holds up
Written by Sam Varghese
The Bloomberg story, claiming chips are being implanted by a Chinese contractor on server motherboards sold by US firm Supermicro Computer and being used to… Google+ social network shut down after data leak exposed
Written by Sam Varghese
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, will shut down the Google+ social network after confirming on Monday that data from up to half a million… 
