> TODAY'S SUMMARY (141 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape is marked by several significant threats and trends. A sophisticated North Korean hacking group has used fake employment schemes to execute a record $6.4 billion theft from Binance, highlighting the dangers of social engineering. UK officials have warned of imminent AI-powered ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure, predicting a surge in such incidents by 2028. Additionally, enterprises face financial losses of up to $1 million per day from LLMjacking attacks that exploit large language models for unauthorized cloud resource usage. Meanwhile, Google dismantled a massive botnet of 1.3 million Android TV boxes that was involved in ad fraud. Lastly, multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered across various platforms, including critical flaws in Node-RED and Siemens devices, necessitating immediate attention from IT security teams.
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Two researchers from Carnegie Mellon University claim that it is possible to predict a person's social security number by using statistical analysis, throwing the security of a key personal identifier into doubt.
Facebook and other social networking sites are coming under fire for ruining the spy industry as finding new recruits without an online trail is becoming next to impossible, according to IT security specialist NCC Group.
The team behind the Waledec botnet mounted a new malware campaign over the July 4 weekend that has infected thousands of PCs.
The state of Colorado has updated a law designed to protect children on the internet from sending of sexually explicit messages, known as 'sexting', to include cell phones too.
Worlwide IT spending could fall 6% to US$3.2 trillion in 2009, according to Connecticut-based IT research and advisory company Gartner.
The CEO of a virtual gaming bank within the space trading game EVE Online, has run off with 200bn of virtual credits trading them in for real world cash of ÂŁ3115 (US$5100) through the black market.
UK telecoms giant BT has secured a prestigious deal to provide officers and staff at London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) with new identity and access management services
Data leakage - one of the IT security hot topics of the moment - is on the agenda of a joint Cyber-Ark/Websense webinar being broadcast live at 3pm today, and available via the Infosecurity web site on a recorded basis after that time.
Danny Bradbury explores some of the more interesting stories in the security field from the last week.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) wants more time to consider Oracle's $7.4bn Sun deal before giving its approval.
The Pirate Bay - arguably one of the highest profile file-sharing indexing portals in the world - has hit the headlines with plans to launch a video streaming/sharing website ostensibly similar to Russian sites such as Movieberry.com
The Argentinian woman at the centre of the Mark Sanford scandal has said that her Hotmail account was hacked.
Max Butler - aka Max Vision and Iceman - has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in connection with the theft of almost two million credit and debit card details, as well as an astonishing $86 million of allegedly fraudulent purchases.
Interoute, the internet backbone carrier, has released a free 'internet barometer' desktop application that displays the state of the global internet, as well as potential threats to the net's IP-based infrastructure.
Check out BrookCourt's whitepaper on how the rise of identity and access management has revolutionised how the enterprise defines a key domain of IT risk control.
Spammers are using the death of music legend Michael Jackson to harvest unsuspecting computer users' email addresses for future spam campaigns.
Google have launched Anti-Malvertising.com to assist its advertisers in spotting potential providers of malicious advertisements. Finjan, specialising in secure web gateway products and unified web security for the enterprise market,have welcomed this launch.
A European-based gang behind sophisticated and targeted phishing attacks on small and medium enterprises has returned after a five-month break, says security firm iDefense.
The malware that has been infecting automated teller machines in eastern Europe could be about to spread to other places in the world, according to the company that uncovered the fraud. Experts at SpiderLab, the research arm of security firm Trustwave, say that there is "increased activity" around t...
Parcelforce customers' names addresses and postcodes were available online after a system related to the company's mail tracker service failed.