> 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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New biometric technologies and plans for increased surveillance are jeopardising society’s right to liberty and privacy, argued David Murakami Wood, managing editor of Surveillance & Society, at the Biometrics 2007 conference on Friday 19 October.
A fingerprint recognition system failed to prevent black-listed fans from entering football grounds and was easily fooled by simple spoofing techniques, according to a trial by Dutch research organisation TNO.
Finding the right balance between internet security and privacy is becoming increasingly hard when addressing cyber terrorism, experts at last week’s annual ISSE conference argued.
Biometrics has changed in several significant ways over the last decade, according to a prominent expert in the field.
Users of IT security products should see no gaps in service resulting from floods in Britain, despite the location of several vendors in some of the worst-affected towns.
Google is buying its way into the infosecurity market, through purchasing security service provider Postini for $625 million (£310m, EUR458m) in cash, it said on 9 July.
This year, the Victory Challenge team introduced security into their game plan as they challenged the Swiss defender Alinghi, in the 32nd America’s Cup.
Eighty per cent of infected websites have been compromised by a third-party hacker, according to the latest threat statistics from Sophos.
Lloyds TSB has purchased pattern-recognition software from US vendor Actimize for detecting employee fraud within its retail banking operation. Use of such software is already common in financial services for spotting fraud in external transactions, such as credit card spending.
One gang is responsible for more than half of all attempted phishing for the likes of online banking log-in details, and has found ways to extend the lives of its web-sites, according to researchers at Cambridge University.