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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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Visitors to the rnbxclusive website are met with a stern rebuke from a UK LEA. Italian Windows users can receive a similar rebuke from the Polizia. Only one is genuine.
Hot on the heels of its Shockwave and Robohelp patches, Adobe has issued a patch for seven critical flaws in its Flash Player, including a zero-day universal cross-site scripting vulnerability.
Le symposium S4, qui a eu lieu fin janvier à Miami, marque une nouvelle étape dans l’odyssée de Charybde à Scylla de la cybersécurité industrielle. Comme après la conférence « Black Hat » de l’été 2011, les informations présentées obligent à [...] Lire la suite
The hacktivist group Anonymous launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a number of major stock exchanges this week, continuing its reign of information security mischief.
Bangladeshi hackers have been hacking Indian sites, and Indian hackers have been hacking Bangladeshi sites. Now it is escalating as each side calls for ‘cyberwar’ against the other.
WikiLeaks has denounced UNESCO for refusing to allow it to speak at a conference being held at UNESCO HQ in Paris today and tomorrow. The conference is called 'The Media World after WikiLeaks and News of the World.'
A response to a freedom of information law request by the City of Rye, N.Y., has exposed the social security numbers of city employees.
The emergence of social media as a malware attack vector means that traditional anti-virus technologies are no longer sufficient: whitelisting must now be used to supplement traditional blacklisting.
A new report from the BBC asks whether BYOD spells the end of the traditional office PC. Are we in the midst of a complete cultural revolution?
Shylock is financial malware first detected by Trusteer last September and so named because of random excerpts from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice included in its binary. Trusteer now reports a significant increase in end-user infections.
Canadian telecom firm Nortel Networks, which filed for bankruptcy in 2009, was repeatedly breached by Chinese hackers for almost a decade, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“The Microsoft Store India is currently unavailable. Microsoft is working to restore access as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused”, is the note from Microsoft's online retail outlet.
On Valentine’s Day, Microsoft is sending IT administrators a big bouquet of 21 security patches.
Fresh off its successful hack of an FBI-Scotland Yard conference call, Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking down the US Central Intelligence Agency’s public website.
Blue Coat Systems 2012 Security Report maps the rise and describes the persistence of the modern malnet, and offers a solution.
Insecure internet-connected home security cameras are a warning that the Internet of Things will require more than just computer security – this is a warning of things to come.
An Australian broadcaster asks why Symantec is guarded over the Norton AV and pcAnywhere source code that was lost to the hacker Yamatough and the Lords of Dharmaraja, while a US researcher fears he may know the reason.
A bipartisan group of senators who authored cybersecurity legislation last year plan to introduce a compromise cybersecurity bill that will be examined at a hearing next Thursday.
Bank of America has informed affected credit card customers that their information may have been compromised by a breach at an unidentified merchant.
A federal jury in Texas has declared invalid patents for interactive web technology claimed by Michael Doyle and his patent holding company Eolas.