> 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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// AI-powered summary generated at 04:00
Consumers fail to see the value for security apps: More than 80% of respondents said they want to spend $4.99 or less.
Take-up likely to soar as big name brands jump on board
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,...
More than three-fourths of consumers (77%) are interested in using alternatives to protect their security on the internet.
Some verticals will spend more than others: The aerospace, defense and intelligence vertical continues to be the largest contributor.
Au menu de ce billet : deux annonces de conférences qui promettent d’être riches; le CLUSIF qui, suite à l’étude sur les référentiels de cybersécurité industrielle, lance une enquête sur leur notoriété et leur usage; et les exigences pour les [...] Lire la suite
'Narko' sentenced to 240 hours of community service
The benefit of skipping the EK is that it's very streamlined and lightweight—and much harder to detect by security scanners.
Vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby applications with the potential to affect vast swathes of the Internet and attract attackers to lucrative targets online. These vulnerabilities take advantage of features and common idioms such as serialization and deserialization of data in the YAML form...
Research finds most exposed employees are ill equipped to deal with threats
Huge counter-intelligence coup for nation state attacker, thought to be China
High-severity discovery needs patching, but will not affect many
37% of enterprise security managers expect to increase their IDS/IPS budget in the next 90 days.
F-Secure and co. prove how easy it is to access private accounts
Adobe vulnerability exploited against Korean and Japanese targets from late June
Users warned to expect follow-up phishing attacks
CSID claims businesses are concerned, but failing to act
It's using an unknown Flash Player exploit to infect companies and private users around the world and steal sensitive business information.
Palo Alto Networks claims security tools classify it as adware
Flaw has been exploited in the wild after being disclosed in Sunday’s data dump