> 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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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved Intel's $7.7bn acquisition of security software giant, McAfee.
IT security software vendor BitDefender has linked up with peer-to-peer data development company BitTorrent – which developed the file-sharing protocol of the same name – to offer the 80 million estimated users of the protocol an integrated malware detection service.
Inadvertent disclose of sensitive information by well-meaning workers will pose the greatest information security threat to organizations in the coming year, according to Frank Kenney, vice president of global strategy at Ipswitch.
Google has deleted all UK payload data collected by its Street View cars from unsecured British WiFi networks, the company has confirmed.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is undertaking a number of cybersecurity research and development projects for the Department of Defense designed to prevent surprise cyberattacks.
Kaspersky Lab's malware analyst Alexei Kadiev has posted an interesting analysis on how the Bredolab botnet – which infected around 30 million PCs at its height – functioned.
Security researchers from Symantec claim to have spotted a new crimeware toolkit being sold in the underground marketplace. The toolkit – known as Dream Loader – generates a trojan that is exclusively used to distribute malware.
Hotmail is claiming it can now tackle its biggest security issues with a way to send and receive active e-mail messages.
Shlomo Kramer is well known in the IT security industry for being a co-founder of Check Point and, more recently, has been CEO/president of data security specialist Imperva. Infosecurity caught up with him in London this week for his observations – and predictions – on what will be the main IT secur...
A new feature on Facebook is, at the very least, questionable, and may even be a social networking risk, says a leading IT security researcher.
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Bank of America recently won a ruling blocking four former employees of its U.S. Trust unit from using the bank’s client information at their new employer, Dynasty Financial Partners.
The Ohio State University said that a university server containing personal information on 760,000 people was accessed by hackers. The university stressed that it had no information that the personal information was taken from the server.
Leading technology businesses are backing an initiative to help organisations secure global supply chains against cybercrime threats.
The number of smartphone malware infections have increased 33% this year over 2009 figures, according to a survey by network-based security provider AdaptiveMobile.
Antid0te, a tool developed by security researcher Stefan Esser, is expected to provide security protection against worms that attack a jailbroken iPhone.
Cloud security has been something of a hot topic so far this year but, according to Colin Bannister, CA Technologies' chief technology officer, it will be even more of a hot topic on company agendas as we move into the New Year.
It seems that ATM skimmers – fraudsters who attach magnetic stripe skimming devices to cash machines – have moved up a notch or two in the technology stakes by adding GSM-equipped data modems to their readers.
The Zeus botnet is targeting credit card accounts of major US retailers Macy’s and Nordstrom by injecting a pop-up that asks for personal information to access the card holder’s account, according to Trusteer.
The WikiLeaks attackgeist known as Anonymous has staged distributed denial of service (DDoS) network attacks on more sites, including Moneybookers and the Dutch National Police Service.