> TODAY'S SUMMARY (55 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights significant threats and vulnerabilities that organizations must address. Forescout warns that inadequate network segmentation is enlarging attack surfaces, making businesses more vulnerable. A critical vulnerability in ZyXEL switches has been exploited by Chinese hackers, leading to the exfiltration of sensitive data from nearly 1,000 devices globally. Additionally, a newly discovered flaw in the Linux kernel allows unauthorized access to host memory from guest virtual machines, raising concerns for cloud environments. Meanwhile, a malicious NPM package, disguised as a legitimate software, has garnered millions of downloads, highlighting the persistent threat of supply chain attacks. Lastly, CISOs are urged to update incident response playbooks in light of emerging AI-driven threats, including sophisticated deepfakes and autonomous malware.
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The March 20 cyber-attack on South Korean financial services and media firms, known as Dark Seoul, was thought to be significant not only for the high-profile nature of the targets but also for the use of a Master Boot Record (MBR) wiping functionality that erased the hard drives of infected PCs.
Microsoft will issue seven security bulletins in this month's Patch Tuesday tomorrow. Six are marked critical and one is marked important, heralding a busy period for both desktop and server admins.
Les composants des systèmes d’information industriels étant mal armés pour résister à des cyber-attaques, que faut-il faire :
les rendre plus résistants en réduisant leur vulnérabilité ? (les « patcher »)
ou les mettre hors de portée des attaquants via des [...] Lire la suite
A stealth start-up founded last year has discovered and described a vulnerability that it claims affects 99% of all Android devices – in fact every device sold since Android 1.6 (Donut); that is, nearly 900 million devices.
By a vote of 541 to 91, with 9 abstentions, EC proposals for a directive on stiffer penalties across Europe for cybercriminals have been adopted by the European Parliament. Denmark has chosen to opt out of the directive, preferring to maintain its own system.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you an important announcement: On Thursday, June 6th, just in time for SummerCon, we will be hosting a free Ruby Security Workshop in NYC! Signups are first-come, first-serve and we only have space for 30 people. Sign up here and we will emai...
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The UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has published the second of its annual Threat Assessment of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse reports.
The UK’s MI5 and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have revealed that according to their information-gathering activities, Britain faces around 70 sophisticated cyber-espionage operations per month against its government and industry networks.
Spiegel Online reported Saturday that it had seen Snowden documents indicating that the NSA had 'spied' on both the EU's diplomatic representation in Washington and its representation to the United Nations.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a mobile device management guide for federal agencies seeking secure methods for workers to use smartphones and tablets.
Norway’s Opera Software has issued an advisory this week detailing a June 19 attack by hackers who breached the company’s network and used one of its older, expired code-signing certificates to digitally sign a Zeus-based piece of malware and package it as an update for the Opera internet browser.
While the Lotus F1 Team prepares for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone this weekend, Infosecurity talked to its CIO about the network and security demands in a very unusual business.
A UK security researcher has disclosed a bug in Facebook's code that allowed him to take over any Facebook account in less than a minute - and earned himself a $20,000 bug bounty in the process.
Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies and other books, founder of Counterpane (now BT Managed Security Solutions), and designer of the Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms, has joined the board of EFF.
A group of investors led by venture capital firm Split Rock Partners has provided $15 million in new funding to Vormetric, the San Jose-based firm that specializes in security and encryption services for virtual, cloud-based and physical environments.
Just as the science of fingerprints, DNA, and fiber analysis have become invaluable in criminal forensics, connecting the dots of an advanced cyber-attack can help identify even the most sophisticated threat actors – if researchers know what to look for.
Nobody doubts that BYOD is a security issue – the connection of employees’ personal devices to the corporate network worries IT staff. There are security solutions; but study after study surprisingly shows that many companies simply ignore the problem – either not allowing the use of BYOD even thoug...