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1. Talk about a curveball: Microsoft director of sports marketing fired, charged with fraud over 'fake' invoices

   He tells investigators: 'I was hacked!'

   Microsoft's former director of sports marketing has been indicted on five counts of wire fraud, based on allegations that he created fake invoices to defraud the software giant and sold its property as his own.…

2. Equifax exec's inside trade shame: Software boss sentenced for mega-hack stock profit

   Thrown in the small house rather than the big house

   An Equifax executive – who knew the biz had been hacked before it was made public and banked over $75,000 in stock trades using this inside knowledge – has avoided jail.…

3. LuminosityLink spyware mastermind gets 30 months in the clink, forfeits $725k in Bitcoin

   Grubby Grubbs' grifting days are gone

   A programmer who wrote and sold software that backdoored PCs so they could be remotely controlled has been jailed for 30 months – and forced to give up his stash of 114 Bitcoins.…

4. Hunt for Red Bugtober: US military's weapon systems riddled with security holes – auditors

   Death from a-bug. Dr Strange-bug. Top Bug. We could do this all day...

   Computer security vulnerabilities are widespread in US military hardware, and the Pentagon is only beginning to understand how to fix them.…

5. Penta-gone! Personal records of 30,000 US Dept of Defense workers swiped by miscreants

   Travel details for thousands of citizens slip into hands of slippery scumbags

   Someone has reportedly siphoned personal information on 30,000 or more US Department of Defense workers.…

6. Oh no, Xi didn't! Chinese spymaster cuffed in Belgium, yoinked to US on aerospace snoop rap

   Xu can play at this espionage game, Feds allege

   US prosecutors have unsealed charges against a collared Chinese national, accusing him of stealing trade secrets from American aerospace companies.…

7. Who needs custom malware? 'Govt-backed' Gallmaker spy crew uses off-the-shelf wares

   Likely state hackers make do with 'living off the land' and going after tardy Office patchers

   A newly discovered spy gang is eschewing boutique attack tools to instead use publicly available exploits against unpatched systems.…

8. SIEM, UBA, UEBA... If you're suffering netsec acronym overload, then here's our handy guide

   Is there a difference and does it matter?

   Comment  In a little more than 20 years, what quaintly used to be called "network security" has gone from simple firewalling and VLANs to talk of analytics driven by self-learning machine intelligence and AI. How should we make sense of such a dramatic jump?…

9. Remember that lost memory stick from Heathrow Airport? The terrorist's wet dream? So does the ICO

   Operator fined £120k by UK data watchdog

   Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) has been fined £120,000 by the UK's data watchdog for the loss of an unencrypted USB memory stick reportedly containing airport security data.…

10. Chinese tech titans' share prices slump after THAT Super Micro story

    Lenovo slides by a fifth, ZTE sinks too on back of server allegations

    The ripple effect of explosive claims that Chinese government agents slipped snooper chips into Super Micro servers used by Apple and Amazon today dented the share price of the Middle Kingdom's tech titans.…