> TODAY'S SUMMARY (75 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. ESET has released its Endpoint Security for Android 7.0, while Windows 11 26H2 introduces new Group Policy Object (GPO) settings aimed at enhancing security. Critical vulnerabilities have been disclosed in SonicWall and GitLab, with active exploitation reported shortly after their release. A notable ransomware attack has disrupted major French supermarket chains, causing substantial operational impacts. Additionally, leaked documents from the Luna Moth ransomware group reveal their collaborative tactics involving social engineering. Finally, a growing trend of low-cost Android phones pre-installed with malware has been identified, raising concerns for consumers purchasing devices online.
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Malware authors are targeting those who missed the initial sign up for Google Wave, according to Symantec.
IT security vendor Symantec has uncovered a trojan that uses the Facebook social networking portal to communicate with a command and control (C&C) server
M86, the web and messaging security products vendor, has acquired business internet security specialist Finjan for an undisclosed sum of money. The move boosts M86's payroll to a shade more than 300 staff.
The Chip & PIN system pioneered by French banks in the 1980s - and rolled out across the UK and Europe in recent years - is to be extended to payment cards in Australia, Visa's operation there has announced.
The US has officially opened a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity in Arlington, Virginia.
Windows 7 owners are having problems installing their new operating system, especially over Vista, according to comments on Microsoft's support site.
The rapid rise in the number of swine flu cases - up by more than 50% in the UK in recent weeks and with similar infection rises in North America - has got some IT experts worried, with Gartner Group and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) both expressing concern over the internet's `last...
Tipping Point unveiled its latest intrusion prevention system this week, featuring an updated software / hardware combo that the company said is better at handling many tasks at once.
The director of the FBI and the man charged with protecting the US from cyberthreats, Rober Mueller, has given up online banking after a phishing scare.
The ability of the latest BlackBerry series of mobile phones to create a secondary remote eavesdropping voice stream has reached the headlines again, with the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issuing a warning about a new application called PhoneSnoop.
Approximately 10% of schools are deploying biometric technologies, according to Alasdair Darroch, director of Biostore
Annual research from Lloyds TSB has revealed that 76% of adults are currently worried about identity theft and 39% feel more at risk now than they did six months ago, with the recession playing a major contributing factor.
Reports are coming in that Zurich Insurance has lost the details of 51 000 UK customers after an unencrypted data tape went missing in South Africa.
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has turned up the revelation that there were 356 data loss incidents reported in the 11 months to September of this year. The figures compare to 190 data loss incidents in the period October 2007 to November 2008.
Reports are coming in that the Guardian Jobs website has been compromised by hackers, and that as many as half a million users of the portal have had their personal details compromised.
Information security: Breaches, walls, charges, tools, and deals.
A US court has sentenced a man to three years in jail for selling more than $1m worth of pirated software on eBay.
Cyberwarfare and information warfare are overused terms for what could be classified as cybervandalism or cybercrime, said Ira Winkler, CISSP at ISAG, at RSA Europe in London on 22 October.
The collapse of the UK Barings Bank in 1995 could have been avoided if proper controls and systems had been in place, Nick Leeson, the guy that brought down the Barings Bank told the audience at the RSA Conference Europe on 22 October.
Speaking at the RSA Europe conference in London this week, ISF president Professor Howard Schmidt said that there is now a need for people to be able to revoke the personal data they present for identification and credit-worthiness to financial institutions.