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Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals significant threats and trends:
1. A Canadian has been extradited to the U.S. for allegedly hacking schools across multiple states and using their systems for illicit cryptomining.
2. DreamHost confirmed a data breach that exposed customer FTP logins and webmail sessions after attackers accessed its File Manager platform for two months.
3. Cyberattacks targeting French blood banks and other refrigeration systems across Europe have disrupted critical operations, highlighting vulnerabilities in essential services.
4. Crédit Mutuel Arkéa reported a cyber heist resulting in the theft of approximately $133 million through compromised supplier accounts.
5. A critical vulnerability in WordPress is actively being exploited, prompting warnings from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
6. The rise of AI has introduced new challenges, with incidents of AI-generated malware and automated attacks linked to AI tools becoming increasingly prevalent.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 20:00
Methodman, a so-called 'grey hat' hacker specialising in discovering cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws, claims to have uncovered a number of XSS security flaws in various Paypal registration pages.
Worldwide software piracy is on the rise, according to a study by the Business Software Alliance and analyst firm IDC.
A two-factor authentication system - complete with keypad and display - has been successfully integrated into a plastic payment card by Melbourne-based EMUE and is being trialled by MBNA in the UK
With the economic downturn, cloud computing is seen as a way to improve operational efficiency, reduce headcounts and help with the bottom line, but according to the report from Massachusetts-based Forrester Research on cloud computing, organisations should not jump on the ‘cloud wagon’ before consi...
The importance of Estonia, one of the most Internet-connected and e-trading nations on earth, has ramped up a notch or two with the FBI, which has announced plans to station a cybercrime expert and his/her team in the country later this year.
The recent outbreak of swine flu has thrown up a number of topics related to information security ranging from secure sharing of data between health professionals, to spam / phishing and issues around remote working.
Danny Bradbury rounds up the most important news in the security space from the last week.
Heartland Payment Systems has revealed that it lost US$12.6m as a result of its 2008 data breach, in the same week that it finally regained official Payment Card Industry Data Security standard (PCI DSS) compliance.
Information security technology is of little use if employees unwittingly give up log-in details, passwords and other sensitive information to hackers using social engineering.
Hackers are starting to create fake search engine sites to divert hapless internet users to malware infected websites, says PandaLabs, the research operation of Panda Security.
The fourth annual Global Security Challenge Competition where security entrepreneurs compete for up to US$500 000 in cash grants, is open for entries until 15 June 2009.
Splunk, the vendor who calls itself “the google for data centres” are seeing an increase in sales due to the high crime that comes hand in hand with an economic downturn.
After several years of offering its products via a few specialist systems integrators in the UK, California's Palo Alto Networks has established a formal presence in the country.
Police in Bavaria have arrested 11 people suspected of being members of the Hacksector cracking group, which maintains a dark hats forum of the same name on the Internet.
It's not often that firms supplying specialist network forensics technology to US government agencies are allowed to supply their systems software to civilian companies, especially outside of the United States, but Utah-based Solera Networks has achieved this.
At the Infosecurity Europe show, London, on 30 April 2009, in a session titled ‘The dynamics of e-crime’, an audience member - an employee of the police central e-crime unit (PCeu) within the Metropolitan police service – interrupted the panel to declare that police are not ignoring the increasing p...
John Colley, managing director of (ISC)2 EMEA lamented the lack of security is company culture in his talk ‘Are we getting the basics right’ at Infosecurity Europe this year.
The issue of spam is a major concern for vendors and attendees at the show. And, while internet service providers (ISPs) are doing their bit in shutting down the accounts of spammers in real time, it`s only the fixed line ISPs that have this luxury.
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.