> TODAY'S SUMMARY (46 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals significant threats across various sectors. Capcom confirmed a data breach exposing 11.7 million user accounts, emphasizing the risks associated with gaming platforms. In a concerning trend, an attacker compromised Microsoft 365 accounts at 79 organizations without needing passwords, utilizing replayed sign-in sessions and hidden inbox rules. Vulnerabilities in PHP continue to be exploited, with millions of attack attempts related to PHP2Shell and newly discovered RCE flaws prompting urgent patching. Additionally, Russian-linked hackers have launched destructive attacks in Ukraine, while compromised TLS certificates from eMudhra Limited highlight the ongoing risks in digital trust infrastructure. The rise of AI in cybersecurity is also notable, with AI tools being used both defensively and as vectors for new attacks.
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Spam king Alan Ralsky was sentenced to four years in jail this week, for pump-and-dump stock spamming. Nine other spammers were also sent to jail for the same crime.
Better economic conditions mean that spammers are once again advertising third party products and services, rather than mounting spam campaigns attempting to garner business for themselves, a new report from Kaspersky said this week.
Corsaire, the international security consultancy, claims to have identified a potentially serious flaw with most popular web browsers.
Economically challenged employees are likely to abandon their ethics in pursuit of new jobs by stealing corporate data, according to a survey from security firm Cyber-Ark.
A third piece of iPhone malware has appeared, pushing the envelope further than ever before by creating a botnet of infected devices and acting as a banking trojan.
Mobile working and online collaboration are two of the most threatening trends when it comes to information security in the federal government, according to a report released by the Ponemon Institute.
The Canadian government is collecting more personal financial information on citizens than the law allows, according to the country's federal Privacy Commissioner.
Imation has announced what it says is the world's first wireless USB external hard drive.
Fortinet, the unified threat management (UTM) specialist, has gone public with an initial public offering (IPO) projected originally at $9 to $11 a share.
IT security vendor Webroot says that a phishing scam purporting to come from Visa, the international card issuer, is scamming internet users as they start their online shopping for Christmas.
The days of having your credit or debit card refused - and then the retailer having to phone for authorisation because of fraud worries - may soon be over, as Visa Europe has introduced real-time scoring to its risk detection platform.
The Gumblar botnet has moved into overdrive, changing its operating model to dramatically increase its infection rates, according to the latest monthly threat report from ScanSafe.
Los Alamos National Laboratory has spent $45 million on information security for its classified computer network in the past eight years, but it is still inadequate, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
In what some communication security experts are calling a classic data theft resulting from one or more rogue employees, T-Mobile has admitted its staff sold private details of customers to a third party for use when selling mobile phone deals.
Reports are coming in of an important arrest in connection with the now-infamous Zbot group of trojan malware.
A gang of four men have been sentenced to 13 years in prison for their role in using the PSP2-BBB trojan to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds from UK bank accounts.
David Guyatt, one of the co-founders of MIMEsweeper, the IT security company acquired by Baltimore Technologies and later, Clearswift, has a new IT security company, Osirium.
Unified threat management firm Astaro is offering a free version of its UTM product, focusing on firewall functions and targeting SMBs.
Microsoft has discovered a zero-day denial of service vulnerability in the server message block (SMB) protocol used in Windows 7.
Sophos has warned internet users against buying Tamiflu online, the drug designed to help stop people getting infected by the H1N1 virus also known as the swine flu.