> TODAY'S SUMMARY (14 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical developments. Scammers are leveraging replies to unsolicited texts to confirm active phone numbers, increasing the risk of fraud. A significant cyberattack utilized 51 AI agents to compromise 429 WordPress sites and steal sensitive Ukrainian data in just over a minute. Additionally, low-cost Android phones are being shipped with pre-installed malware, turning them into tools for ad fraud and other malicious activities. Mozilla has launched Firefox Enterprise, offering enhanced management tools for organizations, while VMware's patch management concerns indicate a growing need for better security tools. Lastly, Booz Allen's AI models successfully navigated all defined attack objectives in a controlled test, showcasing the evolving capabilities of AI in cybersecurity.
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Adobe Systems shares surged 12% after the New York Times said Microsoft may work more closely with the company and possibly acquire it.
Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular browser clients currently in use and, as a result is attracting the attentions of hackers, some of whom have developed a keylogger trojan that forces the client to store passwords automatically.
An online activist group – apparently using the 4Chan web portal as its forum – started a major distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) at around midnight CET yesterday evening against the web portal of the Spanish copyright protection society, the SGAE.
A global standard is needed for point-to-point encryption (P2PE) technology used to secure credit card transactions, according to Troy Leach, chief standards architect at the PCI Security Standards Council. Standards are needed to ensure consistency and enable verification of the technology’s perfor...
The unique device identifier (UDID) on an iPhone can be used in collecting data that poses privacy concerns, warns Bucknell professor Eric Smith.
IT security standards are mainly set by dominant technology suppliers, rather than independent organizations, according to a German information security official.
IT security standards are mainly set by dominant technology suppliers, rather than independent organisations, according to a German information security official.
Information security technologies have never been as important as they are now, says the German Informatics Society (GI).
The fate of self-confessed 'UFO hacker' Gary McKinnon – who has been on the cusp of being extradited to the US to face charges in connection with unauthorized access to US military networks – will be decided within a matter of weeks, rather than months.
Information security technologies have never as important as they are now, says the German Informatics Society (GI).
The Stuxnet worm marks a watershed in IT security management, says Thomas de Maizière, German minister of the interior.
The advent of sophisticated new malware such as Stuxnet could hamper the development of cloud computing and consequently economic development, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday.
The cryptography work of three GCHQ workers in the 1970s – a decade before the precursors to today's internet got under way – has been recognised in an awards ceremony carried out this morning.
Hard on the heels of last week's UK and US arrests of cybercriminals using the ZeuS malware to siphon money from internet users' bank accounts, comes news that a third batch of hackers, this time in the Ukraine, have been arrested.
Demand for IT staff continues to rise, resulting in shortages in some software skills, according to the latest research.
The advent of sophisticated new malware such as Stuxnet could hamper the development of cloud computing and consequently economic development, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday.
The police cybercrime unit can tackle only 11% of the 6000 known organised criminal gangs that regularly use computers for illegal purposes, the head of the Metropolitan Police admitted at the weekend.
Symantec has published an in-depth report on the Stuxnet malware in which it notes that, whilst the worm was first discovered in July, it is known to have existed at least one year prior and likely even before.
A survey of more than 9000 adults in the UK, US, Europe and Canada, has revealed that internet users in the UK feel more at risk from banking fraud than ever before.
Just like the Greek god that is its namesake, Zeus is the king of bank fraud trojan viruses, having been used by thousands of criminals to scam perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars from banking customers around the world for years. The recent busts of Zeus fraudsters in the US and the UK are just...