> 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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A computer containing personal information on 84,000 patients was stolen from the Saint Francis Health System in Tulsa, Okla., the facility admitted recently.
Google Android users are being warned about a 'free' version of the popular Walk and Text app, a piece of software that allows users to view what is in front of them while they are texting.
In what sounds like an April Fool, but isn't, a new site allows internet users prepared to stump up $1,000 to deny accusations on other websites. The site – iCorrect – reportedly has 35 founder members, most of whom are celebrities.
Google is reportedly developing an app that uses facial recognition to overlay existing apps and offer auto-identification of users on the internet.
Google Android users are being warned about a 'free' version of the popular Walk and Text app, a piece of software that allows users to view what is in front of them whilst they are texting.
The silence from RSA over the hack of its servers a couple of weeks ago has been close to deafening, but now it seems that the rumours surrounding the attack are starting to gel. According to one security researcher, the domain names used for the RSA attack were clearly designed to taunt the current...
Digital certificate authority Comodo has admitted that two more of its registration authorities (RAs) have been hacked. The hacks appear to be separate from the so-called Iranian lone hacker incident earlier in the month when at least five accounts were compromised.
Proof that even the largest organisation can be hit by unexpected downtime came on Tuesday overnight as the BBC iPlayer, BBC news portal and several other services crashed for just over an hour.
IBM has announced it is sponsoring the creation of a heavy-duty IT security research operation that will operate on a cross-company initiative to assist in helping secure cyberspace.
A report just issued claims that, whilst 80% of adults in the UK own digital assets – ranging from iTunes libraries to online bank accounts – only 9% actually 'leave' these assets to their friends and relatives when they die.
US digital certificate authority Comodo has admitted that two more of its Registration Authorities (RAs) have been hacked. The hacks appear to be separate from the so-called Iranian lone hacker incident earlier in the month when at least five accounts were compromised.
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Shared Assessments Program have launched a study examining the financial impact of patient data breaches.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is investigating a major hack of the government's email systems down under.
The Briar Group, a Boston-based operator of restaurants and bars, has agreed to pay a $110,000 fine for failing to protect credit card information, the first penalty levied under Massachusetts’ new data privacy law.
Oil giant BP has caused a stir by revealing it has lost a laptop containing the personal details of 13,000 victims of last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Research published today claims to show that 39% of mobile phone owners in the UK would not spot their handset missing within an hour.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) – the equivalent of the UK's MI5 operation – is investigating a major hack of the government's email systems down under.
It looks as though Microsoft is quietly tracking down the cybercriminals behind the infamous Rustock spam botnet, following the software giant's court-approved seizure of several command-and-control servers.
Scammers are increasingly using current events, such as the Japan earthquake and tsunami, to trick people into donating money to bogus organizations or clicking on bogus news reports that contain embedded malware.
American Express has neatly leapfrogged Visa's P2P micropayment gameplan by announcing plans to launch its own service, months ahead of Visa, and offering the service on the web, as well as on Apple iPhone, Android and BlackBerry handsets.