> TODAY'S SUMMARY (130 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights several significant threats and trends. The largest cryptocurrency heist in history occurred as North Korean hackers stole approximately $6.3 billion from Binance by exploiting a compromised DevOps laptop. In retail, fashion retailer Resolve reported the theft of customer payment card information due to a security breach. Additionally, a malicious update to the Claude Code extension for VS Code was found to have installed persistent SSH backdoors on developers' machines. Exploits targeting critical vulnerabilities in Drupal and GitLab are actively being leveraged by attackers, raising concerns about web security. Lastly, hackers published sensitive data of over 41,000 DHS employees, emphasizing the ongoing risks to government cybersecurity.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 20:00
Chris Boyd, director of malware research at FaceTime Security Labs, warned against the dangers of social networking at the talk ‘Social networking pirates: Batten down the hatches, Cap’n Jack is coming’ at Infosecurity Europe.
The Infosecurity Europe show opens for a three-day run in London today, with two features that are new for 2009 - security cafes and expert forums.
Lord Erroll stole the limelight, and the audience’s attention on the ‘Who got caught out the last 12 months’ keynote panel at the Infosecurity Europe show in London, 28 April 2009, by calling for greater penalties and repercussions for cybercrime.
Last week, Infosecurity Magazine was at the RSA show in San Francisco. A variety of vendors launched new products.
Join Infosecurity magazine and Check Point software technologies in a webinar discussing `software blades,' a new architecture that allows companies to select from a library of over 20 software-driven systems to create a tailored security gateway for specific environments.
Despite the need for security being exaggerated in an economic downturn, smaller IT security companies will suffer, says Dave Hansen, Corporate SVP &GM Security Business Unit at CA, speaking to Infosecurity at the RSA conference in San Francisco.
Despite the need for security being exaggerated in an economic downturn, smaller IT security companies will suffer, says Dave Hansen, Corporate SVP &GM Security Business Unit at CA, speaking to Infosecurity at the RSA conference in San Francisco.
Privacy International has slammed the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ruling that Google Street View does not contravene the Data Protection Act.
Tufin Technologies has announced a policy and security network API (application programming interface) initiative and has enlisted the support of several IT security vendors for the program.
SmoothWall has taken the wraps off a new rack-mounted web filtering appliance that uses the company's Guardian web filtering technology.
Finjan has uncovered what appears to be one of the largest bot networks controlled by a single cybercrime gang, with 1.9 million infected zombie computers forming the swarm.
AVG, the producers of one of the most popular free anti-virus applications, is now offering a free URL checking utility.
Although VOIP afficionadoes are wont to promote the encrypted nature of Skype Internet telephony calls, it's now becoming accepted that the use of a compressed data mode within Skype opens the gates to pattern recognition and slow, but steady, text-based decoding of the voice transmissions as a resu...
It's been a complicated take-over, apparently, but Check Point Software Technologies has at last completed the acquisition of Nokia's security appliances business which was announced last year.
Powerpoint, Porn and Twitter
The organisers of the main Black Hat security conference - which takes place at the Moevenpick City Centre hotel in Amsterdam's Piet Heinkade this Thursday and Friday - have announced that presenters will reveal no less than six high profile vulnerabilities at the event.
The operators of Paul McCartney's web site were caught with their electronic pants down this week after the portal was found to be serving up malware.
Samsung, a name better known for its PC and mobile phone offerings, has signed veteran value-added distributor Wick Hill to handle its IT security products in the UK.
Even though version D of the Conficker worm failed to cause havoc - as was widely predicted - on April 1, the worm's methodology continues to cause problems in the shape of an updated version of the Neeris worm.
Hispasec Sistemas, one of Spanish-speaking world's rising IT security stars, has enhanced its online malware analysis service to accept programmes of up to 10 megabytes, as well as supporting an impressive 23 languages via its on-screen interface