> TODAY'S SUMMARY (44 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals significant threats impacting various sectors. A cyberattack targeting refrigeration systems in France has spoiled food across hundreds of supermarkets due to unpatched firmware vulnerabilities. Retail giant Ahold Delhaize has taken its systems offline following a cyber incident, indicating ongoing risks in the retail sector. GitLab has patched a critical vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution, emphasizing the importance of timely updates. Additionally, a data breach in Denmark linked to weak passwords has compromised 8.8 million accounts. Emerging malware, such as XWorm RAT, is evolving to offer enhanced surveillance capabilities, posing new risks for user privacy. Lastly, low-cost Android phones are being shipped with pre-installed malware, raising concerns about supply chain security.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 12:00
The government has missed the deadline on nearly all its commitments to IT reform due to be implemented last month.
Microsoft is to address 12 security issues in its February Patch Tuesday.
A senior malware analyst has warned that the new version of Android Market – an online hub that allows developers to sell Google Android apps to users of Android devices – offers users the ability to install apps directly from a desktop PC browser.
Reports are coming in that Slavik, the author of the infamous Zeus trojan, is now offering to sell the complete source code of the malware for $100,000.
Hotmail has introduced an alias feature which Microsoft said would enable users to manage their online identities.
Criminal syndicates and drug cartels are building large-scale software pirating operations and selling that software – which is likely to contain malware – to fund their operations, warned David Finn, associate general counsel at Microsoft.
Hackers exploited close to twice as many vulnerabilities as usual in January, half of those being “critical”, according to Fortinet’s monthly threat landscape report.
The Federal Trade Commission is requiring three credit report resellers to strengthen their data security procedures and submit independent audits every other year for 20 years as part of a settlement with the agency.
Next week's patch Tuesday will, says Lumension, lead to 900 million reboots of Windows machines around the world. Sadly, whilst this sounds a rather large power-draining volume of unnecessary PC actions, the reality is that it's not that abnormal.
It looks as though Adobe's new Reader X incorporates a number of security features that block exploits that cybercriminals have tapped in previous Reader viewer applications. Sophos is reporting that its research team has tested the viewer and found that it locks down malicious PDF spam in is tracks...
The N-DEx search engine, which the FBI revealed back in 2008 as a means for US law enforcement agencies to carry out Google-style searches on multi-agency databases, is about to go live in the US.
Reports are coming in that the Egyptian government is using elements of the emergency national broadcast network to pipe tens of thousands of pro-Mubarak text messages on the network of Vodafone Egypt.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the final version of its recommendations for securely configuring and using full virtualization technologies, which allow multiple operating systems to run on a single platform.
A white paper just published by Corsaire claims to show that multiple authenticators - such as PIN codes with security questions – are still not enough to protect private data.
Trusteer says that its research into the Zeus malware and botnet command and control (C&C) servers that control the swarms of infected internet users shows Russian and US top level domains are now the main home of C&C infestations.
New name, and new vision – that was the crux of the explanation delivered by the chief executive of the security firm formerly known as BoxSentry.
Apple is being sued again over alleged disclosure of its mobile devices’ unique device identifiers (UDIDs) to third parties without users’ consent.
A flood of celebratory and congratulatory tweets on Twitter has greeted the news that internet services have been restored in Egypt.
Software quality would be much better if programmers adopted "literate programming", according to Stanford University's unique professor emeritus for the art of computer programming, Donald Knuth.
Software quality would be much better if programmers adopted "literate programming", according to Stanford University's unique professor emeritus for the art of computer programming, Donald Knuth.