> 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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There has been a recent resurgence in plug-and-play (PNP) malware campaigns by spammers after a two-week period of inactivity. The spammers are using what appear to be stolen emails as templates to send out millions of new virulent messages, according to St. Bernard’s Red Condor team.
Microsoft has issued a security advisory confirming exploits of an unpatched vulnerability that affects web applications built on ASP.NET.
Intel is investigating how a master key for its High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) anti-piracy protocol was published online.
Microsoft has issued a security advisory confirming exploits of an unpatched vulnerability that affects web applications built on ASP.NET.
Data security and compliance specialist ArcSight has taken the wraps off a slew of product updates - Enterprise Security Manager 5.0, Identityview 2.0 and Logger 5.0 - with the offer of a $49.00 version of Logger, its universal log management software.
Intel is investigating how a master key for its High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) anti-piracy protocol was published online.
Adobe has issued an emergency update to address a critical security flaw in its software for the second time in two weeks, this time for its Flash Player.
Interpol chief Ronald Noble has admitted that criminals have stolen his identity by setting up two Facebook accounts in his name.
Europe has proposed a global internet treaty to protect the net from political interference and place into international law its founding principles of open standards, net neutrality, freedom of expression and pluralistic governance.
VMware is expected to acquire Novell's Linux SuSE operating system (OS) unit as part of Novell's reported plans to divest parts of the company.
A group of security gurus representing IBM convened for the sponsor’s keynote at this week’s Forrester Security Forum in Boston. The lively debate included several key topics on the minds of nearly all information security professionals.
Cloud computing is challenging traditional IT security, but could be a key element in enabling a security policy to meet modern threats, says Eric Domage, research manager at IDC EMEA.
Most businesses are failing to take security on smartphones as seriously as they do on laptops, says Howard Clegg, head of solution sales, Vodafone UK.
Today IBM announced an agreement whereby it will purchase privately held OpenPages of Waltham, Mass., in an effort to expand Big Blue’s business analytics offerings.
Google has confirmed that it has dismissed a systems engineer after he accessed private details from the Gmail, Google Voice and IM accounts of four teenagers.
Two fraudsters who ran a lucrative credit card factory from a flat in Haringey in North London, were jailed yesterday after an intensive investigation spanning multiple UK law enforcement agencies.
Security firm IronKey has announced that its Enterprise S200 package of USB flash drives and management software is undergoing certification for government use by the CESG, the UK national technical authority for information assurance.
An RFID tracking program, funded by a federal stimulus grant, has drawn the ire of privacy advocates in California, prompting the EFF and ACLU to call the technology “insecure” and “risky”.
Yesterday’s announcement about a redesigned Twitter detailed the micro-blogging service’s intent to upgrade its user panel to include rich media accompaniment. While the move is a bold step in enhancing the Twitter user experience, one security vendor is warning about its short-term potential for sc...
It seems that hackers sympathetic to the government cause in Malaysia are silencing websites that criticize the government using distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack methodologies.