> 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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The European Commission has proposed a new directive on attacks against information systems to replace current, outdated frameworks.
Stuxnet, the computer worm considered to be the world's first cyber weapon, has hit millions of computers in China.
Adobe plans to release updates on October 5 for Adobe Reader 9.3.4 for Windows, Mac and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 for Windows and Mac, and Adobe Reader 8.2.4 and Acrobat 8.2.4 for Windows and Mac to resolve critical security issues.
In the days of dial-up modems, malware authors developed trojans and other black code that dialled premium rate numbers in the background and so generating revenues for their criminal gangs. Today, thanks to the arrival of landline broadband, the process of background premium rate calls – driven by...
Barclays Bank plans to rewrite its software applications so they can communicate with one another using encryption to lessen the likelihood of fraudsters finding a way into its systems
The German government's new national ID card – which will start being issued this November – has been publicly hacked on TV by members of the infamous Chaos Computer Club.
Tomorrow is the day that the new PCI DSS 1.2 rules kick in, requiring all level one merchants – defined as firms processing more than 6 million transactions per year – to adhere to the v1.2 security guidelines, or face possible action by their card processor.
Hard on the heels of the spate of Twitter attacks comes news that LinkedIn members are being targeted by carefully crafted fake connection requests that route users to the ZeuS data-downloading malware.
Virtualisation is the key to better information security in cloud computing, says Eric Baize, a board member at cross-industry security initiative, SAFECode.
A number of insurance agents have recently been fined by states for not having a written information security plan in place, and some large insurance firms have reported data breaches involving clients’ personal information. To help address this problem, the Independent Agents and Brokers of America...
The Spamit.com spam affiliate programme, which is responsible for the promotion of spam via a number of outlets worldwide using financial incentives, is to close at the end of this month.
The Stuxnet worm, which has reportedly been successfully targeted at Iranian nuclear plants, is being widely reported as originating from a government agency or well-funded source with political intent. The CEO of Kaspersky Lab, however, says that, whilst there is insufficient evidence to point the...
HP has announced it has completed its acquisition of security firm Fortify Software.
Hackers are using an increasing variety of sophisticated attack vectors to infect internet users PCs, and it seems that infected spam HTML is now being used as a carrier. In its latest attack vector analysis, Barracuda Networks claims that it is now seeing more than a million instances a day of unwa...
Microsoft today launched the second phase of Britain Works, its three-year plan to get half a million people into employment by 2012, reports Personnel Today.
Proposed cybersecurity legislation, a combination of existing bills circulating on Capitol Hill, would give the president power to declare an emergency if there is an imminent cyber threat to the nation’s critical infrastructure.
Google has joined the fight against online sales of counterfeit drugs by taking legal action against rogue pharmacies that advertise on its sites.
The Czech Republic has banned Google from extending its use of the Street View mapping service due to privacy concerns.
An NHS IT manager in Yorkshire has been warned he faces a prison term after he admitted illegally spying on medical records of patients. Data security specialist Imperva says the fact that he was able to do this highlights the need to lock down private data in large organisations, and only allow vie...
UK-based BAE Systems received a $40 million order to provide certification and accreditation services, as well as information security risk assessments, for FBI computer networks.