> TODAY'S SUMMARY (110 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals several critical threats and vulnerabilities. Over 600,000 WordPress sites are at risk due to a newly discovered SQL injection vulnerability in the Backuply plugin. Additionally, a serious flaw in Cisco's Secure Email Gateway is actively being exploited, allowing attackers to gain root access and execute commands. The UK Legal Aid Agency hack has expanded in scope, with records dating back to 1978 compromised. New malware, including the Android RAT "Hirudo," is stealing banking credentials by replacing legitimate apps. Meanwhile, sophisticated spyware distribution methods via targeted ads raise concerns about zero-click exploits. Organizations are urged to patch vulnerabilities promptly as the cyber threat landscape evolves rapidly.
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Massive data breach may affect as many as 55 million
The majority of consumers are worried about a world of connected devices, according to new research by Mobile Ecosystem Forum.
It’s time to close this chapter of our industry’s past. To distance ourselves from the World Wrestling Federation and comic book superheroes. We’re talking about hacker handles: Dildog, Thomas Dullien, Matt Blaze etc. When the Internet was young and fancy-free, hacker handles had their place. They a...
Nearly 4000 Linux systems were compromised
Hacker took to Twitter to offer access to site
Developers have access to tools like AddressSanitizer and Valgrind that will tell them when the code that they’re running accesses uninitialized memory, leaks memory, or uses memory after it’s been freed. Despite the availability of these excellent tools, memory bugs still persist, still get shipped...
Amazon said because password re-use is rampant, it wanted to take the opportunity to prompt customers to protect themselves.
Flaw is being exploited to target Windows systems
A complex mix of mouse dynamics, keystrokes, GUI interaction and advanced behavioral algorithms establish a unique user profile.
Asia Pacific region is one of the fastest growing markets for FIDO, driven by demand from financial services and mobile operators.
A breach of the Turkish national database has confirmed that it contains personal information of around 50 million.
Sector needs to better prepare for major incident, says agency
Since November 2015, Avast has registered more than 4.5 million users who encountered the infection.
Exposing heads of state and the world's elite, it is perhaps the largest leak of confidential information ever seen by the media.
Report by from Digital Shadows finds a company’s security infrastructure is more vulnerable during the Mergers and Acquisition process.
US Department of Homeland Security and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre warn of widespread, "devastating" infections.
Pivotal Software and Kentucky State University, the latest targets, have added thousands of affected employees to the victim count.
Hard on the heels of a Verizon data breach of 1.5 million customer contact details, another DB was found to be wide open.
The USA and UK are to resume critical infrastructure testing later this year, with simulated cyber-attacks taking place on a nuclear power plant.
In most cases, insiders took advantage of granted, trusted access to data, rather than trying to directly hack in to databases and files.