> TODAY'S SUMMARY (33 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals significant threats and trends as follows:
1. A former employee was sentenced to 32 months in prison for holding his employer's network hostage using scheduled tasks, demanding 20 bitcoins.
2. Research indicates that billion-dollar companies are twice as likely to leave critical vulnerabilities unpatched due to operational pressures.
3. Major updates from Microsoft addressed a record 1,413 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Windows.
4. Citrix, Fortinet, and Ivanti issued patches for 29 vulnerabilities, some allowing critical security breaches.
5. Ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly personal, with 37% involving psychological or physical threats against victims.
6. Google has increased its Chrome bug bounty program's payouts, reflecting a growing emphasis on securing web browsers against exploitation.
These trends highlight ongoing challenges in vulnerability management and the evolving tactics of cybercriminals.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 08:00
Today IBM announced an agreement whereby it will purchase privately held OpenPages of Waltham, Mass., in an effort to expand Big Blue’s business analytics offerings.
Google has confirmed that it has dismissed a systems engineer after he accessed private details from the Gmail, Google Voice and IM accounts of four teenagers.
Two fraudsters who ran a lucrative credit card factory from a flat in Haringey in North London, were jailed yesterday after an intensive investigation spanning multiple UK law enforcement agencies.
Security firm IronKey has announced that its Enterprise S200 package of USB flash drives and management software is undergoing certification for government use by the CESG, the UK national technical authority for information assurance.
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It seems that hackers sympathetic to the government cause in Malaysia are silencing websites that criticize the government using distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack methodologies.
After an intensive internet campaign over the last nine months, Avast Software is claiming that its free IT security software of the same name has topped the 130 million user mark, an increase of a third since the start of the year.
Reports are coming in that the Iraqi resistance group claiming to be behind the `here you have' malware may be located in Spain, as a video posted on YouTube, from the profile of a 26-year-old apparently living in Spain, is claiming the cyberattack commemorates 9/11.
Adobe has announced it will release security patches for the latest zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in its Reader and Acrobat products.
UK organisations are losing 300 000 hours and £2bn a year through IT downtime, according to a report by CA Technologies.
European organisations are losing more than £500 000 per year because of the poor performance of cloud-based apps.
Money mule soliciting has always been associated with the less tech-savvy amongst the internet user base, mainly on the basis that such programmes prey on the greedy and gullible, but now it seems that soliciting is getting very professional.
Hewlett-Packard is widely reported to be close to buying intrusion detection security software company ArcSight for $1.5bn.
A hacker who claims to be behind the "Here you have" email worm that clogged up corporate networks last week, says it was designed, in part, as a propaganda tool.
The Information Commissioners' Office (ICO) is investigating FIFA, the international football authority, over allegations that details of thousands of World Cup fans – including their passport data – were accessed by one or more members of staff and then sold on the black market.
Attacks on third-party applications have become a major threat to enterprise information security, says security firm NGS Secure of the NCC Group.
Last night the Global Risk Register – a non-profit organisation seeking to improve the risk management of businesses – was launched in at a special event in the London Cabinet War Rooms.
EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain, has announced that the .eu. element of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), an Internet security standard, is now one of the most secure in the world.
It looks like the summer security issues that plagued Adobe and its software users are continuing into September as Adobe has warned that hackers appear to be exploiting a previously unknown security hole in its PDF Reader and Acrobat programmes.