> TODAY'S SUMMARY (8 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape sees several critical threats emerging. Northstar Security has launched with $7 million in funding to enhance vulnerability mapping and risk remediation using AI. A significant exploit involving a CVSS score of 10.0 was discovered in Canonical's LXD and MicroCloud, allowing attackers to impersonate trusted clients without a private key. In the crypto space, hackers hijacked a script on Polymarket, stealing approximately $2.7 million from traders. Additionally, the FBI has linked North Korea's TraderTraitor group to the record $6.43 billion theft from Binance. Meanwhile, a sophisticated malware known as NetamLoader is targeting government Windows 10 systems in Asia, raising alarms about its operational capabilities.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released technical guidance for evaluating the usability of electronic health records (EHR), while maintaining the security and privacy of those records.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Security Service this week arrested eight men allegedly involved in a Carberp bank fraud ring.
At a security conference organized by Null in India, Matrix Shell claimed and demonstrated the ability to hack into GSM phones and manipulate the user’s International Mobile Subscriber Identity.
Indiana University and Microsoft researchers have uncovered flaws in Web-based single sign-on (SSO) services run by Google, Paypal, Facebook, Twitter, and others that allow hackers to get access to users’ accounts.
The Russian government has appointed Andrei Krutskikh as cybersecurity coordinator under the Foreign Ministry.
Rogue anti-virus products continue to be a major source of malware. The trick for the criminal is in getting the victim to click the link; and GFI has spotted a new development.
The average cost to UK business per record lost, according to the latest Symantec/Ponemon study, has increased from ÂŁ47 in 2007 to ÂŁ79 in 2011. Had it been inflation alone, it would have increased to just over ÂŁ53.
The top security concern of IT professionals regarding public cloud computing is the lack of perimeter defenses and/or network control, according to a survey by cloud security provider CloudPassage.
(ISC)², a non-profit information security professional association, and the Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC), a non-profit organizations to improve IT acquisition standards, have formed an alliance to improve the US government’s acquisition of IT products through security...
A number of hackers have succeeded in jailbreaking the new iPad within hours of its release.
Tibetan organizations are under attack from Chinese spear phishers who were also behind the Nitro attacks that targeted Western chemical and defense firms last year, according to research by AlienVault.
The Hydraq trojan, which wreaked havoc during the Operation Aurora attacks in 2009, is back. Actually, it never went away, note Symantec researchers.
On 6 February hacktivist group Anonymous delivered a threatening email to Bashar Assad’s personal email account. On 7 February his use of that account ceased.
Consumers are taking privacy and security into account more often when making purchasing decisions, would consider leaving companies in the wake of a data breach incident, and measure corporate reputation based on these issues, according to a survey by public relations firm Edelman.
Mozilla has fixed eight vulnerabilities, a majority of them “critical”, with the release of the latest version of its web browser, Firefox 11.
The Dutch Big Brother Awards for 2011 have been announced. There are three prize categories: People, Companies and Government.
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is fining Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee $1.5 million related to the 2009 theft of 57 unencrypted computer hard drives containing protected health information on over one million patients.
The Tolly Group has published a new report: 'Comparison of Bit9 Advanced Threat Solution versus McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite and Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1'. But are they apples and oranges?
New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), which provides personal injury insurance to New Zealand residents, admitted that a spreadsheet containing 9,000 claims with personal details on 6,000 individuals was inadvertently sent to a client.
SafeNet buys Cryptocard to offer the best of both worlds (local and cloud) in user authentication.