> 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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At the RSA Europe conference, 20 October 2009, in a session titled âGovernments face up to the cyber security challengeâ, Roger Dean, executive director of EEMA, declared two-factor authentication ânot worth anything anymoreâ.
Rapid7, the vulnerability management security specialist, has acquired Metasploit, the ongoing open source security project that developed the Metasploit Framework. The move is billed as allowing Rapid7 to enhance its penetration testing technologies.
The realities of identity theft and the modus operandi of cybercriminals were explained to delegates at this week's RSA Security conference in London by Brian Honan, a principal security consultant with BH Consulting of Ireland.
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Reports are coming in that the source code of the Wal-Mart highly customized point-of-sale (EPOS) computer system - used in almost 900 of its stores across the US - has been hacked.
T-Mobile has reportedly been hit by two class action lawsuits alleging that the cellular carrier misled consumers into believing that their data was secure after data was lost in the cloud
Research just published by PricewaterhouseCoopers claims to show that around half of UK companies do not know how many security breaches they have experienced in the past year.
Sophos has added a new data loss prevention (DLP) technology to its stable of enterprise security software. The addition will, said the veteran security vendor, simplify how companies mitigate against accidental data loss.
PandaLabs has identified an aggressive trend for selling fake anti-virus programmes or rogueware, where instead of users seeing a series of warnings prompting them to buy a paid version, a fake anti-virus programme is combined with ransomware, hijacking computers and rendering them useless until vic...
Webroot, the internet security software specialist, reports that an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax email scam - in which US internet users have been emailed a malware-infected warning about under-stating their income or underpaying of tax - has arrived in the UK.
TeleTrusT, the German IT security association, awarded the TeleTrusT Innovation Award 2009 to the Spanish Savings Banks Organisation (Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros, CECA) for its e-signing project at ISSE 2009 last week in The Hague.
Apple Computer has been criticised for failing to address a potentially major code flaw in copies of Snow Leopard, its new Mac operating system, which means users' main accounts can get wiped.
In a session titled âEnhancing payment security in 2010â, Robert O. Carr, Chairman and CEO or Heartland Payment Systems - the subject of potentially the worldâs biggest data security breach earlier this year - declared that the model used by quality security assessors (QSA) is âbrokenâ.
Identity and access management (IAM) investments should be increased rather than decreased due to the current economic climate, according to around three quarters of respondents to a survey presented at ISSE 2009 last week by KPMG IT Advisory and Everett in cooperation with eema and IIR.
Origin Storage will unveil a one terabyte (1000 gigabyte) version of its Data Locker, secure external hard drive unit, at the Storage Expo show, which opens at London Olympia on 14 October for a two-day run.
Research just released by Loughborough University and on365, the data centre management specialist, claims to show that data centre managers lack any real understanding of their IT infrastructure energy costs and demands they are placing on it.