> TODAY'S SUMMARY (68 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats and trends. Northflank has experienced a security breach, prompting customers to rotate their API keys due to unauthorized access. A new Android exploit, the "SMS of Death," has surfaced, allowing attackers to remotely crash unpatched devices. Chainalysis disclosed a breach involving customer data exposure, while a critical vulnerability in Drupal Commerce is being actively exploited. The number of DDoS attacks has surged, with Cloudflare reporting an increase of 38% in Q3. Meanwhile, malicious extensions and AI-driven infostealers like VOLTA are emerging as advanced threats, leveraging AI for victim profiling and data theft.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 20:00
Google has announced it is to put additional protection against malicious downloads in its Chrome browser.
The Wikileaks-inspired Anonymous hacktivist group has announced plans to stage a series of DDoS attacks against various Sony sites. The attacks are in retaliation, the group says, for the legal action against George Hotz, the famous hardware cracker.
The London Clinic, the UK's largest independently owned non-profit hospital with 270 beds, has announced it has significantly enhanced its IT disaster recovery systems, as well as improving data access to its clinical staff across the hospital campus.
A Gucci network engineer who was fired by the company used his expertise and insider access to wreck havoc on the IT systems of the Italian fashion house, according to an indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.
Research just released by Informatica claims to show that 74% of financial firms have admitted to a lack of confidence or uncertainty in their organisation's capabilities when it comes to protecting customer information in the development stages.
Low enterprise adoption of data loss prevention (DLP) technology will cause businesses to fail, the research firm cautions.
Low enterprise adoption of data loss prevention (DLP) technology will cause businesses to fail, the research firm cautions.
Internet radio company Pandora Media has been asked for documents related to a federal grand jury probe into information sharing by smartphone applications that run on Apple and Android mobile platforms.
The Lizamoon mass SQL injection attack in which rogue code was injected into thousands of legitimate sites to lure users to malicious sites has claimed few victims.
With the dust now settling on the Epsilon marketing database breach, it seems that around 50 companies have been directly affected by the hack, raising fears that so-called spear phishing attacks may be the result.
Just two months after the Zeus source code was reportedly offered for exclusive sale for $100,000, it seems that the code is now being offered at bargain basement prices through multiple outlets.
An upset Xbox gamer has publicly hacked the Xbox Live policy and enforcement director's online account, posting a YouTube video and claiming that the use of foreign customer support centres means that almost anyone's Xbox account can be hacked.
The latest quarterly malware report from Panda Security claims to show that smartphone malware dominated the security landscape, as witnessed by the rash of Google Android infections.
The Lizamoon mass SQL injection attack in which rogue code was injected into thousands of legitimate sites to lure users to malicious sites has claimed few victims.
The breach of RSA’s SecureID two-factor authentication product was accomplished through a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, the company has revealed.
US-based direct marketing firm Epsilon admits that some customer details have been stolen by hackers, which security experts say may have serious knock-on effects.
Cellcos selling network locked iPhones and iPads have woken up this morning to news that the famous iPhone Dev Team have released an 'untethered' jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1, the latest version of the operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Reports show that the email customer list of Kroger, one of the major supermarket chains in the US, has fallen into the hands of hackers, who are said to be spamming the list with large volumes of unwanted messages.
Avast Software has revealed that just under 750,000 pirates are using the pay-for security software license details of an Arizona bar association with more than 1,500 legal professionals on its books.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the professional association responsible for developing IT and other industry standards, admitted to a breach of its network and the possible theft of its members’ credit card information.