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This week in cybersecurity, Cisco issued critical patches for a zero-day vulnerability in its email gateway that had been actively exploited. Additionally, the Revolut data breach came to light, revealing unauthorized access and the impersonation of a government agency as part of the attack. The incident underscores the ongoing threat of social engineering and phishing tactics. Furthermore, the latest Security Affairs newsletter highlighted various security trends and articles, emphasizing the importance of staying updated on emerging threats. Overall, organizations must prioritize patch management and employee training to mitigate risks from both technical vulnerabilities and human factors.
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A 43-year-old former finance department employee of web optimization firm Akamai has pleaded guilty to espionage charges in the US.
SparkyBlaze, a former hacktivist with Anonymous, offered some advice to companies to stop hackers, in an interview with Cisco’s Jason Lackey.
A mysterious ATM heist involving just 22 pre-paid debit cards - and hackers allegedly altering the maximum daily withdrawal limits - has reportedly lost an American bank around $13 million.
The website of the Northumbria Police Authority was hacked recently but, according to Chris Boyd, a senior researcher with GFI Software, the hack lives on in Google's search caches.
Organizations should ensure that their information security, public relations, and legal departments coordinate their response to a hacktivist attack, recommends Greg Nowak with the Information Security Forum (ISF).
Personal information on 350,000 South Koreans was breached as a result of a hack of Epson Korea’s website.
The Department of Defense (DoD) is working on improving security awareness for smartphones and other mobile computing platforms used by DoD personnel.
An M86 Software researcher says his team has seen a major malicious spam campaign that is using the Cutwail botnet to bombard Facebook users with a variety of infected messages.
A leading security researcher claims to have researched a money mule – people who allow their bank accounts to become staging posts for fraudulent money obtained in online scams – that clearly knew exactly what he was doing.
A Qualys researcher has developed an open source tool that helps to negate the effects of so-called 'slow HTTP' DDOS attacks on internet-connected servers.
Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning of at least one fraudulent digital certificate issued by root certificate authority (CA) DigiNotar.
The Medtronic Paradigm insulin pump is vulnerable to a wireless cyber attack, enabling the attacker to remotely disable the pump or manipulate the dosage, according to security researcher and diabetic Jerome Radcliffe.
Microsoft is fixing a number of bugs in recent updates to three of its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) tools, which enable developers to build security and privacy into their applications.
The coming weekend is, of course, the big summer bank holiday period when a lot of people grab a few days final holidays before the autumn. But, warns M86 Security, the bank holiday period is also one when cybercriminals are very active, so the vendor is advising computer users to check their system...
A Symantec research team have revealed that a new trojan – Trojan-Badlib – is being used as a malware distribution network by unknown hackers.
Maine’s Central Voter Registration (CVS) has been breached, potentially exposing personal information on close to one million registered voters.
A Trend Micro vice president of cloud security has spotted plans by the US government to look at more innovative ways to control its IT resources, and makes the interesting observation that DARPA may even be looking at controlling the US Navy's submarines from the cloud.
After mounting pressure and rising levels of criticism, Facebook has significantly revamped its privacy settings and, while the general response has been positive, some critics are less than enthusiastic.
An apparent slip-up by producers on a Chinese TV programme has revealed that the country's military are using attackbot applications on their PCs to attack Western computer systems.
Steve Jobs has stepped down as Apple CEO after a second bout of medical leave since the start of the year.