> TODAY'S SUMMARY (89 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals several significant threats and trends. A major incident at BAE Systems has disrupted the US bankruptcy court system, halting official notices since October 9. Burger King Japan has reported a data breach affecting over 11 million customers, while CenterPoint Energy disclosed a breach impacting more than a million Texans. Notably, ransomware gangs are increasingly resorting to threats of physical violence to extort payments, and Chinese state-sponsored attackers exploited a newly identified zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust software for espionage. Additionally, vulnerabilities in various platforms, including Microsoft Office and Debian, have raised concerns about potential remote code execution and privilege escalation risks.
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Research just released by MX Logic suggests that spam as a percentage of overall email has reached its highest point ever, currently accounting for 94.6% of all email.
At the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, 29 July 2009, one conference session addressed the changing nature of the information security trade press. A panel of experienced journalists answered questions on the relationship between trade and mainstream media, the rise of Google news, and the financia...
This morning, 30 July, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Robert Lentz, Senior Information Assurance Official for the Department of Defense, declared the need for two extra cyber-czar roles: one for identity, and one for information security training and education.
Symantec has joined the growing ranks of IT security vendors that are offering their pooled information on the latest ITsec threats as a value-added outsourced option for major corporates.
The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.
The Computer forensics department at the University of Alabama has tracked down the Zeus Bot virus to a raft of fake internet postcards circulating on the Internet.
The Fifth International Forum on Combating Cybercrime - a two-day security conference - opened in Damascus, Syria, yesterday and, say the organisers, is a great success.
The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.
Veteran IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab has warned internet users to be aware of rogue or scam software that purports to be an IT security application, but is merely a vehicle to extract revenue - and possibly even card details - from unsuspecting web users.
One of Russia's most powerful business lobby groups has told the country's government that Internet telephony services like Skype are a threat to the country's businesses and to national security.
Finjan, the business internet security specialist, claims its gateway security technology can easily counter a zero-day vulnerability of Adobe Acrobat Reader and Flash Player
A three million pounds-plus fine imposed on three of HSBC's divisions for failing to adequately protect customer data could easily have been avoided if the banking group has made use of digital data vaulting technology, says Cyber-Ark.
A sophisticated underground economy has grown up to exploit the millions of personal computers that have been infected with rogue software that turns them into 'zombies' controlled by botnet masters, says an IT security expert.
If you ever wondered how to start Windows XP without a password and without going down to source code level, wonder no more, as Butterscotch's content producer Stacey Reed has posted an informative video tutorial showing how it's done.
Imperva, a data security specialist, says that last week's hacking of a Twitter senior executive's email account - details of which are now fully emerging - was the result of a combination of poor security practices and safeguards.
Fortify Software, the application vulnerability analysis firm, says that the recent faux pas by the Symbian Foundation - in which the foundation effectively `signed' a malicious application for release on its software referencing service - is an indicator of further slip-ups on the mobile malware fr...
WXPI, a Pittsburgh, Pennylvania-based TV station has quietly broken a story which could have profound repercusions on the security of so-called smartphones - mobile phones with computer-like qualities.
The UK's first mobile phone directory - which went live on the web and over the phone earlier in July - has been taken offline, just days after it went live amidst a fanfare of publicity.
Google is not responsible for the content of its internet search results, a UK court has ruled.
Businesses need to check their contingency plans and improve home-working support systems as swine flu looks poised to reduce UK GDP by 3% this year.