> TODAY'S SUMMARY (5 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights significant developments in the ongoing battle against cybercrime and privacy issues. Microsoft has successfully dismantled a large criminal marketplace responsible for distributing over 1 billion phishing messages, showcasing the escalating threat of phishing-as-a-service. Meanwhile, Flock's CEO continues to advocate for surveillance technology despite mounting public concern over privacy implications, emphasizing its potential crime-fighting advantages. In product updates, Sophos has enhanced its ITDR capabilities to improve identity protection in an AI-driven landscape, focusing on Microsoft integration and quicker response times. These trends underline the dual challenges of combating cyber threats while navigating privacy and ethical considerations in technology deployment.
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Ingenious Hammertoss uses social media and steganography to hide Russian state-sponsored attackers' activities.
Cyber-espionage group likely operates from China
Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans Apple Mac OS X. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer une élévation de privilèges.
Hack requires just a lightweight piece of malware
Users can create and hold keys and prevent anyone, including Google, from accessing their at-rest data within the Google Cloud Platform.
At REcon 2015, I demonstrated a new hardware side channel which targets co-located virtual machines in the cloud. This attack exploits the CPU’s pipeline as opposed to cache tiers which are often used in side channel attacks. When designing or looking for hardware based side channels – specifically...
Financial services has been an engine for the group's strong authentication standards ever since PayPal joined.
Research highlights need for improved awareness
The Cyber Grand Challenge qualifying event was held on June 3rd, at exactly noon Eastern time. At that instant, our Cyber Reasoning System (CRS) was given 131 purposely built insecure programs. During the following 24 hour period, our CRS was able to identify vulnerabilities in 65 of those programs...
Cyphort Labs warns users global attack is ongoing
The group obtained data such as employees' email addresses, and plans to show Planned Parenthood "stripped naked."
Never let a good incident go to waste. Today, we’re using the OPM incident as an excuse to share with you our top recommendations for shoring up the security of your Google Apps for Work account. More than 5 million companies rely on Google Apps to run their critical business functions, like email,...
The start-up is backed by Vupen, the French vulnerability dealer that has often drawn controversy for brokering exploits to the highest bidder.
Authorities can’t monitor encrypted comms platform
Estonian men masterminded global campaign affecting four million PCs
The convenience that smartwatches and other devices bring is also accompanied by security and privacy issues.
Online collective exposes employee data in protest at trade agreements
Spammers are going for more complex tactics, especially on the mobile front.
Dubsmash, Clash of Clans 2, Minecraft 3, various game cheats and video downloaders and more are being infected with the same malware.
Apple Watch and others have a host of authentication, encryption and privacy flaws.