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Today's cyber news highlights several critical threats and trends impacting security. A cyber incident at BAE Systems has disrupted U.S. federal bankruptcy court operations, indicating vulnerabilities in defense contractor systems. The FBI has issued a warning about scammers cloning candidate voices to steal personal and financial data ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Additionally, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical BeyondTrust flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, exploited by a suspected Chinese espionage group. Moreover, a data breach at CenterPoint Energy has compromised the personal information of over one million Texans. On the malware front, PEERSTITCH has been identified exploiting Fortinet vulnerabilities, demonstrating an ongoing trend of sophisticated attacks leveraging zero-day flaws.
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Finding the right balance between internet security and privacy is becoming increasingly hard when addressing cyber terrorism, experts at last week’s annual ISSE conference argued.
Biometrics has changed in several significant ways over the last decade, according to a prominent expert in the field.
Users of IT security products should see no gaps in service resulting from floods in Britain, despite the location of several vendors in some of the worst-affected towns.
Google is buying its way into the infosecurity market, through purchasing security service provider Postini for $625 million (ÂŁ310m, EUR458m) in cash, it said on 9 July.
This year, the Victory Challenge team introduced security into their game plan as they challenged the Swiss defender Alinghi, in the 32nd America’s Cup.
Eighty per cent of infected websites have been compromised by a third-party hacker, according to the latest threat statistics from Sophos.
Lloyds TSB has purchased pattern-recognition software from US vendor Actimize for detecting employee fraud within its retail banking operation. Use of such software is already common in financial services for spotting fraud in external transactions, such as credit card spending.
One gang is responsible for more than half of all attempted phishing for the likes of online banking log-in details, and has found ways to extend the lives of its web-sites, according to researchers at Cambridge University.