> TODAY'S SUMMARY (6 articles)
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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The days of having your credit or debit card refused - and then the retailer having to phone for authorisation because of fraud worries - may soon be over, as Visa Europe has introduced real-time scoring to its risk detection platform.
The Gumblar botnet has moved into overdrive, changing its operating model to dramatically increase its infection rates, according to the latest monthly threat report from ScanSafe.
Los Alamos National Laboratory has spent $45 million on information security for its classified computer network in the past eight years, but it is still inadequate, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
In what some communication security experts are calling a classic data theft resulting from one or more rogue employees, T-Mobile has admitted its staff sold private details of customers to a third party for use when selling mobile phone deals.
Reports are coming in of an important arrest in connection with the now-infamous Zbot group of trojan malware.
A gang of four men have been sentenced to 13 years in prison for their role in using the PSP2-BBB trojan to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds from UK bank accounts.
David Guyatt, one of the co-founders of MIMEsweeper, the IT security company acquired by Baltimore Technologies and later, Clearswift, has a new IT security company, Osirium.
Unified threat management firm Astaro is offering a free version of its UTM product, focusing on firewall functions and targeting SMBs.
Microsoft has discovered a zero-day denial of service vulnerability in the server message block (SMB) protocol used in Windows 7.
Sophos has warned internet users against buying Tamiflu online, the drug designed to help stop people getting infected by the H1N1 virus also known as the swine flu.
Verbatim has taken the wraps off a Secure ExpressCard-based solid state drive (SSD) with onboard 256-bit hardware encryption.
PandaLabs, the malware labs division of Panda Security, has encountered a fake Facebook page designed to steal passwords from users of the social networking portal.
The Zbot trojan - which typically distributes itself via emails pointing at or supplying an infected download - has been spotted targeting customers of the Verizon and Vodafone mobile phone networks on both sides of the Atlantic.
A group of MPs have voiced their opinion that the extradition to the US of self-confessed UFO hacker Gary McKinnon should be halted - and that he should stand trail in the UK - owing to the "precarious state of (his) mental health".
Microsoft has announced guidance for applying secure programming techniques for agile software developers. The company rolled out new guidelines that will enable agile software developers to apply its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) guidelines.
Just days after an iPhone worm was discovered in the wild, Mac security firm Intego has discovered a hacker tool targeting the iPhone that exploits the same vulnerability.
avast! CEO Vincent Steckler told Infosecurity this week that the new version of the free avast! anti-virus includes more capabilities such as behavioural detections at the same time as being faster and smaller. It can also wake up your computer in the night to do a virus scan before putting it back...
Understanding what goes on at the various secret service divisions such as MI5 and MI6, as well as GCHQ, has been helped with the news that Qosmos, a network intelligence specialist, will unveil an LI (lawful interception) edition of its ixMachine at Milipol in Paris next week.
Botnet controllers have been using cloud based systems such as the Google cloud platform as command and control nodes for infected PCs, said a researcher at Arbor Networks.
An unknown hacker - apparently protesting about terror deaths in Pakistan - has attacked the Durham Police website, forcing it to temporarily close.