> 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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This morning, 30 July, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Robert Lentz, Senior Information Assurance Official for the Department of Defense, declared the need for two extra cyber-czar roles: one for identity, and one for information security training and education.
Symantec has joined the growing ranks of IT security vendors that are offering their pooled information on the latest ITsec threats as a value-added outsourced option for major corporates.
The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.
The Computer forensics department at the University of Alabama has tracked down the Zeus Bot virus to a raft of fake internet postcards circulating on the Internet.
The Fifth International Forum on Combating Cybercrime - a two-day security conference - opened in Damascus, Syria, yesterday and, say the organisers, is a great success.
The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.
Veteran IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab has warned internet users to be aware of rogue or scam software that purports to be an IT security application, but is merely a vehicle to extract revenue - and possibly even card details - from unsuspecting web users.
One of Russia's most powerful business lobby groups has told the country's government that Internet telephony services like Skype are a threat to the country's businesses and to national security.
Finjan, the business internet security specialist, claims its gateway security technology can easily counter a zero-day vulnerability of Adobe Acrobat Reader and Flash Player
A three million pounds-plus fine imposed on three of HSBC's divisions for failing to adequately protect customer data could easily have been avoided if the banking group has made use of digital data vaulting technology, says Cyber-Ark.
A sophisticated underground economy has grown up to exploit the millions of personal computers that have been infected with rogue software that turns them into 'zombies' controlled by botnet masters, says an IT security expert.
If you ever wondered how to start Windows XP without a password and without going down to source code level, wonder no more, as Butterscotch's content producer Stacey Reed has posted an informative video tutorial showing how it's done.
Imperva, a data security specialist, says that last week's hacking of a Twitter senior executive's email account - details of which are now fully emerging - was the result of a combination of poor security practices and safeguards.
Fortify Software, the application vulnerability analysis firm, says that the recent faux pas by the Symbian Foundation - in which the foundation effectively `signed' a malicious application for release on its software referencing service - is an indicator of further slip-ups on the mobile malware fr...
WXPI, a Pittsburgh, Pennylvania-based TV station has quietly broken a story which could have profound repercusions on the security of so-called smartphones - mobile phones with computer-like qualities.
The UK's first mobile phone directory - which went live on the web and over the phone earlier in July - has been taken offline, just days after it went live amidst a fanfare of publicity.
Google is not responsible for the content of its internet search results, a UK court has ruled.
Businesses need to check their contingency plans and improve home-working support systems as swine flu looks poised to reduce UK GDP by 3% this year.
Based on an analysis of two billion emails and internet transactions processed by its OEM anti-spam and anti-malware customers every day, CommTouch says that millions of email-borne malware such as Trojans and viruses bypassed several major anti-virus engines during the second quarter of 2009.
The NHS was infected by over 8000 (computer) viruses over the last year, many of which could have been avoided if information security policies and technologies were properly adopted.