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Today's cybersecurity updates highlight an increase in ransomware attacks, particularly targeting healthcare and educational institutions. Phishing campaigns continue to evolve, with attackers using sophisticated social engineering tactics to bypass traditional security measures. Additionally, vulnerabilities in popular software applications are being actively exploited, emphasizing the need for timely patch management. The rise of supply chain attacks remains a significant concern, as threat actors target third-party vendors to gain access to larger networks. Organizations are urged to enhance their incident response plans and user training to mitigate these growing threats.
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Information security is rapidly moving up the board agenda, particularly in light of proposed EU legislation that would compel companies to report cyber breaches. Neelie Kroes, Digital agenda commissioner has said that Europe needs to improve how it deals with cyber security. The concern for busines...
Enrique T. Salem, former Symantec president and CEO, has joined the FireEye board of directors, the company announced today
A large malvertising campaign has been serving up malware infections via web advertisements from online marketing services for at least five months, a Symantec investigation has revealed.
On Friday whitelist security firm Bit9 admitted that it had been compromised, and that its code-signing certificates had been forged to attack a small number of its customers.
When it comes to malware infestations, it turns out that the most wired regions of the world are actually the least vulnerable.
Even though corporate cyber espionage is a perennial headline-grabber, it turns out that the greatest danger of losing trade secrets comes from within.
Some ring in the New Year with champagne, others with highly coordinated theft operations. In the latter camp, Visa has revealed that cybercriminals pulled off an $11 million ATM heist as 2012 wound to a close.
Slovakia-based security vendor ESET has introduced NOD32 Antivirus 6 and ESET Smart Security 6 with anti-theft, a dedicated anti-phishing module and social media scanner
According to the SSL Labs website, “There is little doubt that SSL is the technology that protects the internet. By transforming insecure communication channels into opaque data streams, SSL allows sensitive data to reach its destination uncompromised.”
Everyone likes to catch some naptime shut-eye now and again – including, apparently, malware. FireEye Labs has encountered stealthy malware that employs extended sleep calls to evade automated analysis systems capturing its behavior.
The strategy and an accompanying proposal for a Directive on Network and Information Security (NIS) across the European Union is expected to be published today, February 7 2013.
Bamital is a click-fraud and search hijack operation that is estimated to have earned its operators around $1 million annually. Microsoft and Symantec have now identified and shut down all known components of the botnet.
Imagine if hackers were able to remotely control electronic door locks, alarms, lights, elevators, heating and thermostat systems, and other physical industrial facilities? Well it turns out that, thanks to a critical vulnerability in Honeywell industrial control systems, they can.
The agreement, effective from February 4, 2013, gives the US networking giant the Webscreen technology plus some assets, while providing Accumuli with $10 million to invest in its core services.
Two vendors specializing in enterprise-based mobile security recently announced a partnership that will integrate their technologies for BYOD deployments
When it comes to malware, threats are coalescing into four typical methods that cybercriminals are using today to extract money from their victims, according to Fortinet Labs. The research also showed increasing activity in mobile malware variants of the Android Plankton ad kit, as well as in hackti...
Card processing giant Visa is embracing the idea of a common US debit security approach by agreeing to partially open up the kimono on the technology behind its Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV) chip card – hoping to facilitate EMV adoption in the process.
An advanced persistent threat (APT) specifically targeting the aerospace and defense industries has been uncovered, with likely ties to Chinese hackers, security researchers say.
DroidCleaner, an Android app that claims to free up smartphone memory but actually infects connected PCs, has been removed from Google Play but is still available from third-party app stores.
On Friday, Iceland’s interior minister revealed that two years ago he expelled FBI agents who had arrived unannounced in Iceland to interview an unidentified WikiLeaks associate in August 2011, and had instructed the police not to cooperate with the FBI.