> 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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An Israeli iPad user - working in concert with his wife and daughter back at home - has successfully retrieved his tablet computer after a 90 minute, 10 mile chase, attended by the police.
The Department of Defense (DoD) is working with the private sector to develop an automated network intrusion detection and prevention system for the defense industry, a Pentagon official told Congress last week.
The MyTob virus, which appeared in 2005 and was the first worm to combine features of a botnet and a mass-mailer, is the most significant virus to emerge over the last 40 years, according to Guillaume Lovet, senior manager of Fortinet’s Threat Response Team.
Customers of RSA’s SecurID two-factor authentication product, which was the target of a recent security breach, are concerned that the seed record database might have been compromised, said Andrew Kemshall, co-founder of SecurEnvoy and former RSA Europe executive.
Arbor Networks claims to have discovered one of the first botnets with its command-and-control (C&C) servers located in the US. Dr Jose Nazario, the firm's senior security researcher, says that the Skunx botnet is unusual in not being active in the wild.
Newswires are reporting that the volume of spam – leading to infected and scamware websites – has gone through the roof this week, but M86 Security says that it has seen a spam campaign that imitates a Twitter notification.
A road sign used by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) was apparently accessed by an unknown, unauthorized individual who changed the sign to warn of “ZOMBIES AHEAD”.
Research just published by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) claims to show that 40% of people who have WiFi at home do not understand how to change the security settings on their networks.
Research in Motion (RIM) is advising Blackberry smartphone users to disable Javascript to protect against a security vulnerability in its web browser.
As applications for tickets for the London 2012 Olympic Games opened, some Visa card users were unable to register after a payment system glitch on the ticket website.
The use of cloud-based technology is one way to provide security for personal mobile devices used within enterprise networks, according to Phil Hochmuth, program manager at IDC’s security products research group.
It was red faces all round at F-Secure yesterday after the security vendor realised that a beta test version of its software for the Apple Mac was apparently diagnosing benign files as infected - and then placing them in trash.
It seems that hackers are getting better at developing obfuscated and stealth mode malware code, as a security researcher with Symantec claims to have discovered the stealthiest file infector yet seen.
It looks like Google Android is going to be the first smartphone platform to get a near-native full disk encryption (FDE) app, thanks to work from renowned IT security researcher Moxie Marlinspike.
Scammers are using the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan to appeal for fraudulent charity donations, a security firm has warned.
Google has warned users of its various online services about a new generation of highly targeted attacks against specific individuals using the Internet Explorer family of browser software.
It looks as though banks are adding a new generation of anti-skimming devices to ATMs, in a bid to help prevent users' cards and their PINs from being compromised. But it seems that the retrofitted devices are causing confusion amongst ATM users, who are - quite understandably - mistaking the device...
Reports are coming in that a scam is circulating on Twitter, claiming to be a simple survey, but potentially dropping a range of rogue applications on to users' PCs, as well as spreading virally to other users of the service.
The blame for a DDoS enhancement to the infamous SpyEye banking trojan has been laid firmly at the door of the Anonymous WikiLeaks-inspired group of hackivists by Idappcom.
Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 9 today in Austin, Texas, at 9pm US Pacific Standard Time.