Pertinent Articles From Around The Web Pertaining To Cyber Security

According to at least one hacker and security expert, Microsoft's mobile OS gets top points for security. He claims that Windows Phone is the most secure mobile OS, beating both iOS and Android.

TalkTalk is one of the largest providers of telephony, broadband and pay-TV services in the UK, serving consumers and businesses all over the country. However, the company has revealed that 'a significant and sustained cyberattack' took place on its website yesterday - and it acknowledges that personal information and customer banking details 'may have been accessed'.

TalkTalk says that London's Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit has launched a criminal investigation into the attack, and they are working together 'to establish exactly what happened and the extent of any information accessed'.

Dell customers are scrambling today to deal with a root certificate debacle that some security experts are likening to the Lenovo Superfish issue that emerged earlier this year. Brought to light in a reddit post over the weekend, the issue is with a root Certificate Authority (CA) certificate called eDellRoot that includes a private key and has been installed on new Dell computers and those updated by Dell software.

'It's not a simple bug that needs to be fixed, it's a drop-everything and panic sort of bug,' wrote Rob Graham, owner of Errata Security. 'Dell needs to panic. Dell's corporate customers need to panic.'

More than $500 million of that is from victims located outside the borders of the former USSR, Kaspersky Lab reveals.

Russian cybercriminals stole at least $790 million between 2012 and 2015 from individuals, businesses, and financial institutions around the world, a new report from Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab shows.

Of this, some $509 million was stolen from victims in the US, the European Union, and other countries outside what used to be the former USSR.