> TODAY'S SUMMARY (7 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added Linux Kernel vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, emphasizing ongoing risks in open-source software. An npm malware campaign has been discovered, wherein malicious packages evade defenses by embedding harmful code within normal runtime behaviors. In a notable incident, an AI-generated report nearly triggered a military confrontation between the U.S. and China due to incorrect intelligence. Additionally, researchers successfully escaped the OpenAI Codex sandbox, prompting the company to implement patches. Cisco has also patched a critical exploited email gateway zero-day. The ongoing evolution of these threats underscores the need for robust cybersecurity measures and vigilance.
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While the UK is becoming increasingly better connected, trust in those connections is declining.
A new botnet is nearing completion and is being offered for sale on the hacking underground at $8000.
Le symposium S4, qui a eu lieu fin janvier Ă Miami, marque une nouvelle Ă©tape dans lâodyssĂ©e de Charybde Ă Scylla de la cybersĂ©curitĂ© industrielle. Comme aprĂšs la confĂ©rence « Black Hat » de lâĂ©tĂ© 2011, les informations prĂ©sentĂ©es obligent Ă [...] Lire la suite
The ongoing cyberwar between India and Bangladesh has escalated with Teamgreyhat, in support of âour Indian brothersâ, moving from commercial to economic targets.
Greg Schaffer is leaving his post as head of the US Department of Homeland Securityâs Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, marking the sixth high-ranking cyber official to leave the agency since June 2011.
Guido Fawkes in the UK is the pseudonym of an award-winning anti-establishment blog operated by Paul Staines. In the US it is a name associated with a Twitter account handed over to law enforcement. Around the world is has become associated with the Anonymous movement.
Ryan Harris, known as the cable modem hacker, was convicted on seven counts of wire fraud by a federal court in Boston for helping users steal internet access that cost cable companies $1 million in lost revenues.
Cybersecurity threats will overtake terrorism as the top US national security concern, FBI Director Robert Mueller told the RSA Conference on Thursday.
Three-fourths of information security professionals lack confidence in their ability to address cybersecurity threats, according to a survey by LogRhythm.
Yesterday the Directorate General for External Policies at the European Parliament held a workshop on the The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
M86 Security is warning that recent spam campaigns are luring victims to compromised websites that redirect to malicious Phoenix-hosting sites, which in turn seek to infect the visitor with the Cridex trojan.
Kaspersky Labâs analysis of the âevolution of malwareâ during 2011, from the rise of hacktivism to the emergence of Mac malware; and the consequent lessons for the future.
A full 86% of the data breach cases investigated by Verizon Business in 2011 originated from hacking, and 92% were carried out by an external agent rather than an insider or partner, according to select findings from its 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) released at the RSA Conference.
Civil liberties groups are happy that SOPA has, at least temporarily, gone away; and that ACTA seems to be running into problems in some European countries. But given recent LEA takedowns, are these new laws even necessary?
Anonymous has had at least one beneficial effect: top management at companies are starting to pay attention to information security, judged Grady Summers, vice president at MANDIANT, who participated in a Wednesday panel discussion on hacktivism at the RSA Conference.
Software liability laws are needed to hold software companies accountable for making faulty products, argued Bruce Schneier, chief technology security officer with BT during a pro-con debate held Wednesday at the RSA Conference.
At the RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco, February 29, Bruce Schneier and Davi Ottenheimer discuss Schneierâs latest book and how to enable the trust that society needs to thrive.
Three-quarters of IT professionals believe that personally owned mobile devices put their organizations at risk and only 39% have the necessary security controls to address the risk posed by the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon, according to a Websense-sponsored survey by the Ponemon Institut...
A majority of information security professionals are employing risky methods to control access to enterprise servers, according to a survey by Fox Technologies and Echelon One.
The last week has seen multiple XSS vulnerabilities found almost anywhere and everywhere on the internet, lending early weight to predictions for 2012.