> 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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The Russian Chronopay electronic payments system is increasingly being used by scamsters behind fake anti-virus software and 'scareware' applications, says a leading IT security researcher.
Research just released by Barracuda Networks claims to show that the crime rate on Twitter soared by 20% last year, after a quiet period in the latter part of 2009.
URAC, a nonprofit healthcare accreditation organization, has revised its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security standards.
Google has removed 55 apps from its Android Market after tens of thousands of users downloaded applications that were infected by the DroidDream trojan, according to numerous news reports.
An interesting lawsuit has popped up with California's RPost, a secure email firm, filing a request for an injunction through the Swiss courts over an alleged breach of its technology patents.
Rob Rachwald, Imperva's security director, says that his company is adding hackers to the old Benjamin Franklin adage that "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Hacktivists seem to have learned a lot from the WikiLeaks/Anonymous attacks seen in recent months, as an automated DDoS attack has reportedly frozen access to BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy web portal.
One of the features that Apple may reveal later today when it – as is widely expected, launches the iPad 2 – will be an Android-like pattern lock screen for iOS, the operating system of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Complaints lodged with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC³) totaled 303,809 in 2010, the second highest level in the center’s 10-year history.
Google has blamed a bug in a storage software update for weekend interruptions to its Gmail service in which thousands of users lost e-mail contacts and folders.
The simmering row between security experts and white hat hackers over so-called cracking contests has boiled over, with the organisers of the Pwn2Own competition – which opens on 9 March in Vancouver – defending their role in the industry.
Police in Essex are urging iPhone users to install and register a 'Find my iPhone' app on their mobiles, following the successful recovery of a woman's phone late last month using the software.
A new piece of malware targeting the Mac has been identified by security firm Sophos, as the developer believed to have created a similar trojan for Windows denies having any hand in the Mac-based version.
Information security testing needs to be done in a real-world environment, tested by the most technically advanced minds in the world. According to the Ernst & Young information security services team, they have it all under one roof at their Advanced Security Centre in Houston, Texas.
Two Google Android viruses have been spotted circulating and infecting users’ smartphones in the wild. The viruses are potentially nasty because one – SW.SecurePhone – uploads data to remote servers from the users' handset, while the other – SW.Qieting – auto-forwards messages to a remote number.
A 26-year-old man from Houston plead guilty to hacking and wire fraud charges last week in a case involving the 2008–09 breach of a Minnesota-based company. In a separate incident, however, he will apparently avoid criminal charges for accessing two NASA servers.
The theft of specialist equipment has prevented thousands of users from accessing the Vodafone network.
A Spanish IT security research firm has spotted a man-in-the-browser trojan that injects HTML in all of the mainstream Web browsers and uses rootkit techniques to hide its presence.
It used to be a reflection of the maturity of the computer software marketplace that applications went through beta testing to iron out bugs. Now it seems the same process applies to malware, as Sophos is warning users to be on alert for a beta test of a new Mac OS X trojan.
Following closely on the heels of its first Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule fine, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has doled out a $1 million fine against Massachusetts General Hospital for a data breach involving 192 patients begin treated f...