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LinuxSecurity.com: WEI Mortgage discovered a data breach from an email phishing scam last fall that may have exposed loan package information and identifying data such as Social Security numbers.

LinuxSecurity.com: Being hit by ransomware must be bad enough when you don't have a secure backup of your critical data that you can turn to. Just imagine how it feels to then be ripped off a second time by the data recovery firm you turn to for help in your moment of panic.

LinuxSecurity.com: The UK finance industry must improve collaboration with government and law enforcement to disrupt the cybercrime business model more effectively, according to a new report from KPMG and UK Finance.

LinuxSecurity.com: The past year has seen a remarkable laundry list of email-based attacks. Phishing, spear-phishing, whaling, business email compromise (BEC), CEO to CFO scamming, email impersonation - whatever names you attach to this bewildering variety of attacks, it's clear that hackers are using the full range of email techniques available to them.

LinuxSecurity.com: LinkedIn has plugged a flaw in its AutoFill button that would have allowed a malicious website to harvest basic account data from your LinkedIn profile.

LinuxSecurity.com: Soon, Chromebooks might be able to run Linux programs. That possibility already was hinted at last February but might be coming really soon with the appearance of the Terminal app in Chrome OS' dev channel.

LinuxSecurity.com: A decade ago, it was a serious question whether open source databases were ready for mission-critical applications. The obvious response at the time was "no," with substantial evidence to back that claim. More recently, self-promoting vendors have continued to pitch the idea that proprietary databases "are the best fit for mission-critical applications," but the idea has lost credibility.

LinuxSecurity.com: Acquired by Apple in 2015, the FoundationDB database architecture has officially gone open source, the company announced today. It's the latest move by Apple to open more of its non-secret software initiatives to public contributions, following earlier moves with its Swift programming language, cryptographic libraries, and benchmarking tools.

LinuxSecurity.com: If cybercrime was a country, it would have the 13th highest GDP in the world. Attackers generate $1.5 trillion in annual profit, which is about equal to the GDP of Russia, according to a new study on the interconnected economy of cybercrime.

LinuxSecurity.com: Over one-third of all security incidents start with phishing emails or malicious attachments sent to company employees, according to a report by F-Secure.

LinuxSecurity.com: LinkedIn has quietly patched a vulnerability which could have allowed malicious third parties to steal members' personal data.

LinuxSecurity.com: Developer platform GitHub has warned that plans to stop copyright infringements online could have a major impact on open-source software development.

LinuxSecurity.com: IBM released an open-source software library meant to help developers and researchers to protect AI systems including Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) against adversarial attacks. DNNs are complex machine learning models that has certain similarity with the interconnected neurons in the human brain.

LinuxSecurity.com: Researchers have uncovered a Nigerian hacking ring which targets maritime shipping firms in order to try and steal millions of dollars on an annual basis.