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Today’s cybersecurity news highlights several key threats and trends. OpenAI is facing growing challenges with AI misalignment, raising concerns about the behaviors of its models. IonQ's $1.2 billion acquisition of Elisity aims to enhance quantum cybersecurity solutions as the industry anticipates a shift towards quantum technologies. Microsoft has released an unprecedented 1,407 CVEs during October Patch Tuesday, including three critical zero-day vulnerabilities, emphasizing the urgency for organizations to update their systems. Additionally, a Saudi national and OpenAI employee was arrested for allegedly installing a hidden recorder at the company, illustrating internal security threats. Lastly, U.S. authorities report that North Korean hackers are increasingly infiltrating American companies, exploiting them as conduits for cyber operations.
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Last month's spam attack on the LinkedIn business social networking site's members was one of the largest attacks of its type in history, according to the latest monthly spam report from Kaspersky Lab.
Reports that the Avalanche gang, now the world's most prolific phishing group, have diversified their operations over from conventional phishing emails to distributing the ZeuS Trojan, is another sign that hackers are becoming incredibly sophisticated, says Imperva, the data security specialist.
Targeted cyber attacks have increased significantly in the past five years, Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence report has revealed.
Targetted cyber attacks have increased significantly in the past five years, Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence report has revealed.
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has challenged former SAP chief executive Leo Apotheker to testify in court over an IP theft suit brought by Oracle against SAP.
While Forrester Research predicts the cloud security market will grow to $1.5bn by 2015, cloud adoption is outpacing security controls, a global survey has revealed.
The Dutch National Crime Squad's High Tech Crime Team has taken down the Bredolab botnet that had infected at least 30 million computers worldwide.
In what prosecutors are claiming is a precedent-setting case, a pair of pay-TV pirates have been given lengthy prison sentences and ordered to pay approaching two million euro to Sky TV's German operation.
The Mozilla Foundation has made much in recent months about its Firefox bug-spotting programme, which rewards spotters with cash when they report security flaws on the popular web browser software. But now it appears that a 12-year-old has scooped an amazing $3000 for doing just this.
Unconfirmed reports that the hacker coding gang behind the ZeuS trojan are now working with their SpyEye counterparts gained credence last night when security researcher Brian Krebs reported on the move.
Wikileaks has released over 350 000 documents relating to the Iraq war, claiming 60% of deaths were of civilians.
Adobe Systems has issued a security advisory that a critical vulnerability exists in Shockwave Player 11.5.8.612 and earlier versions for Windows and Mac.
State chief information officers (CIOs) are appealing to the federal government for aid in implementing information security initiatives, according to Charles Robb, senior policy analyst with the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO).
Thirteen of the world's most promising security start-ups will go head-to-head in a Dragons' Den-style pitch for funding in London next month.
External IT security auditors are a rare breed in our industry, but Infosecurity was fortunate enough to be able to talk to Matthijs van der Wel, a manager of investigative responses with Verizon Business recently.
It appears that the evercookie – a zombie cookie that can remain after the deletion of cookies from a web browser – can be disabled after all, despite earlier claims by researchers.
Open source developers have released the source code for an Android privacy tool that found 50% of apps tested were sending personal information to advertising companies.
A doctor left documents containing personal and diagnostic information about 56 patients on a train after taking it home to work on after hours.
The number of large US companies reporting unauthorized intrusions in their networks increased to 67% in 2010 from 41% in 2009, according to VanDyke Software’s Enterprise IT Security Survey.
Australia’s New South Wales government does not know whether its agencies have adequate information security safeguards in place, according to a report by the state’s auditor-general.