> TODAY'S SUMMARY (5 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights significant developments in the ongoing battle against cybercrime and privacy issues. Microsoft has successfully dismantled a large criminal marketplace responsible for distributing over 1 billion phishing messages, showcasing the escalating threat of phishing-as-a-service. Meanwhile, Flock's CEO continues to advocate for surveillance technology despite mounting public concern over privacy implications, emphasizing its potential crime-fighting advantages. In product updates, Sophos has enhanced its ITDR capabilities to improve identity protection in an AI-driven landscape, focusing on Microsoft integration and quicker response times. These trends underline the dual challenges of combating cyber threats while navigating privacy and ethical considerations in technology deployment.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 04:00
A full 40% of executives from electricity firms think their industry is more vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to a new report by McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
The Social Security Administration (SSA) published personally identifiable information, including social security numbers, of 36,657 living individuals erroneously listed on the agency’s death master file (DMF) over a three year period, the SSA’s Office of the Inspector General (IG) concluded.
Reports are coming in that the son of Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of Kaspersky Labs, has been returned to his parents following a covert operation carried out by the FSB, the Russian security police agency.
Facebook has begun introducing two-factor authentication designed to prevent hackers from accessing users' accounts.
Skype has released a new version of Skype for Android that fixes a vulnerability in the application identified last week. Adrian Asher, Skype’s chief information security officer, announced the news in recent blog.
Infosecurity is saddened to report that the 20-year-old student son of Kaspersky Labs founder Yevgeny (Eugene) Kaspersky has gone missing and may have been kidnapped.
Infosecurity is saddened to report that the 20-year-old student son of Kaspersky Labs founder Yevgeny (Eugene) Kaspersky has gone missing and may have been kidnapped.
NuBridges, an authentication services specialist that has just been acquired by Liaison Technologies, has taken the wraps off what it claims is the industry's first tokenisation-as-a-service (TaaS) facility that stores all data in the cloud.
Information security challenges are confronting organizations as they transition from IPv4 to IPv6, according to Patrick Bedwell, vice president of product marketing at network security appliance provider Fortinet.
A phishing email attack that injected data-stealing malware into its networks forced the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to shut down internet access and email last week, according to news reports.
Al Qaeda - AQ - is now using bluetooth broadcasting to radiate terrorist material between users' mobiles. The technology has been successfully used by the terrorist organisation to broadcast subversive promotional videos and material, including ritual beheadings, on a pocket-to-pocket basis between...
Some observers have criticised the PlayBook, the BlackBerry tablet computer, which was unveiled this week, for not having on-tablet email and allied office functions. But, says Nader Heinen, a security advisor with BlackBerry's security group, there's a reason for this omission - security.
Organisations must accept change, embrace consumerisation of IT, and ensure security by focusing on the most sensitive data, says Merlin Lord Erroll.
Microsoft said it will begin disclosing third-party bugs as part of a revamping of its vulnerability disclosure practices.
While a panel of infosec practitioners during one keynote did not go so far as to outright endorse BlackBerry mobile devices, the general consensus was that the handsets from Research In Motion offer greater security for the mobile workforce – above and beyond today’s increasingly popular consumer s...
ViaSat, the new name for Stonewood, has analysed more than 2,500 data breaches reported to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and concluded that the ICO needs penalise organisations more for data breaches.
While a panel of infosec practitioners during one keynote did not go so far as to outright endorse BlackBerry mobile devices, the general consensus was that the handsets from Research In Motion offer greater security for the mobile workforce – above and beyond today’s increasingly popular consumer s...
The Cyber Security Challenge UK 2011/2012 – the second year-long challenge designed to raise awareness of IT security skills amongst students of all ages – is now under way.
The number of compromised records involved in data breaches plummeted from 144 million in 2009 to only 4 million in 2010, but the number of data breaches soared to its highest number ever, according to the 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
The SANS Institute has announced its intent to offer VOIP security courses in Europe for the first time. Plans call for the course to be offered at the institute's Amsterdam operations centre from May onwards.