> TODAY'S SUMMARY (18 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and updates. Ivanti has patched two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-111357 and CVE-2026-118527) exploited in attacks on its Connect Secure VPN, underscoring ongoing risks in remote access technologies. A new Windows infostealer named VOLTA utilizes AI to prioritize stolen data based on the victim's financial value, indicating a troubling trend in malware sophistication. Additionally, the Aur0ra ransomware gang is employing AI agents to enhance their network infiltration and credential theft capabilities. In response to data scraping concerns, Reddit plans to restrict content access to logged-in users. Various Oracle updates address security flaws in Linux, including DNS attack vulnerabilities and mTLS connection issues, highlighting the importance of regular patching in mitigating risks.
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Well-known “ATM hacker” Barnaby Jack died on Thursday in San Francisco. He passed away just ahead of the Black Hat conference where he was planning to speak on “Hacking Humans,” including a man-killing compromise of heart implants.
Four Russians and one Ukrainian were yesterday charged with conspiracy in a worldwide hacking spree that stole 160 million credit card numbers and cost the victim companies hundreds of millions of dollars.
Today we’re excited to release an open-source version of iVerify! iPhone users now have an easy way to ensure their phones are free of malware. iVerify validates the integrity of supported iOS devices and detects modifications that malware or jailbreaking would make, without the use of signatures. I...
French web-hosting company OVH has admitted that it was hacked when the internal network at its offices in Roubaix was compromised. Customers in Europe and North America are affected.
As enterprises increasingly rely on cloud service providers and other third-party vendors to provide fundamental services, the related security risk becomes more significant. Global IT association ISACA has released a new guide applying the COBIT 5 business framework for the governance and managemen...
Les composants des systèmes d’information industriels étant mal armés pour résister à des cyber-attaques, que faut-il faire :
les rendre plus résistants en réduisant leur vulnérabilité ? (les « patcher »)
ou les mettre hors de portée des attaquants via des [...] Lire la suite
The companies on the London Stock Exchange pose a serious risk to the UK’s national security, according to KPMG, which found that all FTSE 350 firms are leaking data that can be used by a range of cyber attackers, including state-sponsored cyber-spies.
One week ago the ACLU revealed widespread US police license plate monitoring and complained of too few rules to prevent abuse. Yesterday the ICO used the UK's data protection law to tell UK police to stop doing similar.
One would have to be living under a rock, or using two cans and a piece of string to communicate, not to be aware that mobile and WiFi security threats are escalating as wireless networking penetration rises. The latest numbers reveal that in the second quarter of 2013, a full 10% of home networks a...
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a revision to the digital signature standard used to ensure the integrity of electronic documents, as well as the identity of the signer.
The University of Oxford is poised to broaden its cybersecurity education offerings, with advanced degree training beginning this autumn.
A new professional-grade banking trojan is stepping into the cybercrime vacuum left by Zeus and Citadel – and looks to be as effective as those notorious kings of crimeware have been at draining people’s bank accounts.
Hacker conferences, like Black Hat and DEFCON, are notorious for highlighting the security missteps of attendees. Before the show, which takes place in Las Vegas next week, IT security professionals should take every security precaution to prevent being hacked.
The Lakeland kitchenware online store has emailed its customers with a warning that two of its databases were breached by hackers late last week, and that it was resetting all customer passwords.
The pro-Assad hacking group Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) yesterday defaced the Viber subdomain support.viber.com and pasted a screenshot of user information supposedly taken from a breached database.
Cyber-crime and espionage is clearly a costly scourge for businesses and governments, factoring in data theft, clean-up costs, brand damage, customer losses, and so on. In total, the range for cybercrime loss to the global economy is between $100 billion and $500 billion, according to McAfee.
The United Arab Emirates has successfully fought off a series of cyber-attacks that it was able to trace back to Egypt.
Disputed ex-Chinese province Taiwan is reportedly playing a big role in the global cyberwar. Security experts say the island is a proving ground for Chinese hacker-spies, who attack its IT infrastructure on a regular basis with hundreds of attempts per month, before deploying those tactics to other...
A new web application attack report reveals that retailers suffer twice as many SQL injection attacks as other industries, and that one website received 94,000 attack requests in 24 hours – or 26 attack requests per minute.
Prime Minister David Cameron's expected statement on internet porn was duly delivered yesterday, and led to immediate accusations of being confused, unworkable, and the beginning of online censorship.