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Today's cybersecurity news highlights significant threats and vulnerabilities. Alpine Linux faced an attempted remote code execution (RCE) attack, prompting a rebuild of its GitLab server. Android devices are under threat from a new "SMS of Death" vulnerability, where a hidden SMS can crash call services, including emergency calls. A critical CVSS 10.0 flaw in Canonical's LXD and MicroCloud allows attackers to impersonate trusted clients without private keys. Additionally, hackers stole around $2.7 million from Polymarket traders through a hijacked script. The FBI has linked North Korean group TraderTraitor to the record $6.43 billion Binance crypto heist, underscoring ongoing concerns around state-sponsored cybercrime.
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US security firm McAfee recently uncovered several ready-to-use toolkits that enable hackers to redirect unsuspecting Pinterest users to malicious websites with only a couple lines of code.
The online travel industry is the most vulnerable to email attack, according to a newly launched email trust index by email security firm Agari.
Utah Governor Gary Herbert has fired the director of the stateâs Department of Technology Services (DTS) over a breach that exposed healthcare records of 780,000 Utah Medicaid recipients.
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A new study by BAE Systems Detica shows that British business is pessimistic about security in general, but strangely confident about its own.
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Windows is not Appleâs iOS, says Mozilla's top lawyer after the organization complained that Firefox and other browsers would be excluded from Windows RT running on ARM systems.
BeyondTrust, a company that provides privilege delegation and authorization systems with its PowerBroker suite of products, has acquired eEye Digital Security, developer of the Blink and Retina vulnerability management tools.
Security professionals are experiencing an information overload and want better metrics to analyze the data so they can take action, according to a survey conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of RedSeal Networks.
Kansas State University (KSU) has received a five-year, $1 million US Air Force (USAF) contract to study "moving target" defense for networks.
Yesterday we reported that 55,000 Twitter accounts have been leaked on Pastebin. Security researchers Anders Nilsson and Robin Wood have separately analyzed the dump.
The net neutrality provisions approved by the Dutch Parliament last June as part of its implementation of the European telecommunications package became law yesterday.
A spear-phishing campaign aimed at US natural gas pipeline companies has been underway since December of last year, according to the US Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).
There have been several recent examples of Syrian activists being tricked into downloading and installing remote access tools (RATs) that secretly hand control of their computers to a third party.
Apple exposed encryption passwords of FileVault users in its Lion OS X 10.7 security update, says researcher.
South Africaâs Internet Service Providersâ Association (ISPA) has teamed with Australiaâs Internet Industry Association to develop a new voluntary industry code of practice to improve cybersecurity for end users.
Almost one-in-four computers in the UK is infected â and the UK is one of the least infected countries in the world, says the new PandaLabs report released today.
US federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged four Irish and British men for helping with the breach of the US security analysis firm Stratfor last year.