> 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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Finding a clever way to eliminate the use of passwords and user IDs entirely in a way that offers airtight security is, naturally, an identity technologist’s Holy Grail. CertiVox is the latest security Parsifal, debuting the open-source M-Pin Strong Authentication System for banishing the use of cre...
The Bitcoin Foundation has received a cease and desist letter from the California Department of Financial Institutions, alleging that it may be engaged in money transmissions without the requisite state license.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you an important announcement: On Thursday, June 6th, just in time for SummerCon, we will be hosting a free Ruby Security Workshop in NYC! Signups are first-come, first-serve and we only have space for 30 people. Sign up here and we will emai...
To help combat the widening of the gap between demand for and supply of cybersecurity professionals, the (ISC)²’s nonprofit arm has launched the U.S.A. Cyber Warrior Scholarship program, aimed at providing cybersecurity career training to qualified veterans who served in the US military.
PRISM is the US surveillance program that allows the NSA to gain access to the accounts of major US cloud services providers, including the accounts of non-US citizens. The GDPR is the proposed data protection law for the EU. The two are, on the surface, incompatible.
In the final part of our three-part series, we investigate the how the toolkit user gained control of program flow and what their strategy means for the reliability of their exploit. Elderwood and the Department of Labor Hack Writing Exploits with the Elderwood Kit (Part 1) Writing Exploits with the...
Camjacking is clickjacking aimed at taking over the PC’s webcam – and although Adobe fixed the Flash vulnerability that allows it back in 2011, it lives on in the Flash implementations of Chrome and (not verified) IE10.
Led by Canada's privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, and enjoined by 36 provincial and international colleagues, Google has been invited to enter a dialogue with data protection authorities over the privacy issues around Google Glass.
In the second part of our three-part series, we investigate the tools provided by the Elderwood kit for developing exploits from discovered vulnerabilities. Elderwood and the Department of Labor Hack Writing Exploits with the Elderwood Kit (Part 1) Writing Exploits with the Elderwood Kit (Part 2) Se...
For all of their benefits when it comes to enabling consumer communication, peer-to-peer networks have been notorious hideouts for pirated content and other things that wish to elude detection. They’re providing cover now for something else: malware.
75% of the UK’s Premier League football clubs, and 50% of clubs in the major European leagues use the services of Scout7 to provide solutions in player scouting, recruitment and information management. Manchester City’s private database has been breached.
Recently, the Department of Labor (DoL) and several other websites were compromised to host a new zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer 8 (CVE-2013-1347). Researchers noted similarities between this attack and earlier ones attributed to Elderwood, a distinct set of tools used to develop several past...
For enterprises, the ability to detect data breaches within minutes is critical in preventing data loss, yet only 35% of firms stated they have the ability to do this. The culprit? An ever-escalating array of data sources stemming from virtualization, anywhere, anytime work habits and an explosion o...
UK ISPs will have porn filters operational before the end of 2013 said David Cameron’s ‘pornification’ advisor Claire Perry at a Westminster eForum last week.
The ‘blank media levy’ is effectively a tax on blank media (originally tape cassettes) designed to compensate content creators for illegal copying of copyrighted works. Over the years it was extended to include CDs, DVDs, hard disks – and is now making its first forays into devices that include soli...
A research effort into the security practices of Fortune 500 companies has found that while a majority of the largest US public companies are following the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Guidelines by providing some level of disclosure regarding data breaches, some companies that have had...
An announcement from the Swedish Information Commissioner enjoins Salem Municipality ‘to either remedy the shortcomings of the agreement [to use Google’s cloud services] or to stop using the cloud service.’
In a talk this week’s Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit near Washington DC, two industry analysts from Gartner examined the hype and reality behind the idea of ‘cyberwar’ – defining what it is, what it is not, and what organizations should do to prepare.
Master boot record wipers have been cropping up lately, most notably in a widespread attack on South Korea media properties. A new MBR-based hack is now targeting German users, who are at risk of having their systems rendered unusable by malware being sent via spam messages.
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