> TODAY'S SUMMARY (10 articles)
Key cybersecurity updates today include the sentencing of Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months for pro-Assad cyberattacks, highlighting ongoing threats from state-sponsored hacking. A critical vulnerability in Drupal Commerce Core is being actively exploited, urging affected online stores to patch immediately. In another alarming trend, researchers have identified a malicious ChatGPT link that can execute code in users' sessions, potentially compromising private conversations. Additionally, Cloudflare reported a significant increase in DDoS attacks, with 18.2 million recorded in Q3, reflecting a 38% rise. On the software front, major releases of Wireshark and YARA-X have been announced, addressing various bug fixes and improvements.
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Ever since malware writers swapped worldwide infamy for hefty profits, they have become a larger problem to deal with. And, says Ron Clarkson, senior vice president of CoreTrace Corporation, as the game of cat-and-mouse with anti-virus software programmers continues, hackers remain one step ahead of...
Veteran technology professional Jennifer Perry has announced that E-Victims.org, the charity she helped to found three years ago and which assists victims of electronic crime on the internet, is to close due to lack of funding.
McAfee has released the sixth edition of its security journal and has been fortunate enough to have a feature contribution from ex-Washington Post IT security writer Brian Krebs, who has written about his experiences in taking down ISPs and botnets that support cybercriminal activity.
Reports are coming in that the German government is becoming concerned over the security of the 'push' email features of several popular smartphones, including the RIM BlackBerry and the Apple iPhone.
In a move that could upset a few security vendors, Toshiba has announced it has developed a new technology for self-encrypted hard disk drives and protecting sensitive information.
The country’s foreign minister told the AP that Bahrain has no plans to join other Gulf states in threatening to block BlackBerry services.
Google's Android mobile operating system has been hit by its first text-based trojan, according to security firm Kaspersky Labs.
Kaspersky Lab is warning users to check their PCs for the presence of the TDSS rootkit, a nasty piece of code – now in its third iteration – that allows complete, but hidden, 'zombie' control of the host PC.
Google's Android mobile operating system has been hit by its first text-based Trojan, according to security firm Kaspersky Labs.
San Diego-based St. Bernard Software recently announced its purchase of email security firm Red Condor.
Terry Childs, a former city of San Francisco network administrator, received a four-year sentence on Friday for his earlier conviction on computer tampering charges.
There are signs that hackers are again turning to the recurring avenue of using attractive image files as a means to persuade internet users to infect their machines, through the usage of downloadable links to 'allow' users to view the files.
Reports from DefCon 2010 last weekend showed how it is possible to persuade a mobile phone to log into a rogue base station created using around $1,500 worth of hardware. And, says an IT security vendor, this highlights how the 'evil twin' hacking methodology used on WiFi networks can be redeployed...
The exploit for Adobe Reader and Acrobat unveiled by researcher Charlie Miller at last week’s Black Hat conference in Las Vegas has been confirmed by Adobe, which says it will issue an out-of-band patch for the exploit by mid-August.
Security writer Brian Krebs says he has conducted a straw poll and analysis of the top IT security applications and found that large numbers of them fail to utilize the standard security features of Microsoft Windows.
The European Commission has announced a new schedule for the revision of the European Union Data Protection Directive, delaying legislative proposals for over a year, according to the French Information Commissioner's Office, CNIL.
Security writer Brian Krebs says he has conducted a straw poll and analysis of the top IT security applications and found that large numbers of them fail to utilise the standard security features of Microsoft Windows.
Apple has advised users of all its mobile devices that run on iOS to avoid opening PDFs until a fix is released for a newly discovered flaw.
Apple has advised users of all its mobile devices that run on iOS to avoid opening PDFs until a fix is released for a newly discovered flaw.
From their Silicon Valley office, David Perry, global education director of Trend Micro, told Infosecurity that it’s no longer sufficient to detect code, but instead, it’s more productive to detect the source of the code.