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Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical threats and trends. A significant data breach at DigiCert has exposed sensitive business customer information due to an improperly secured system. Meanwhile, fake security tools on GitHub are targeting cybersecurity professionals, deploying backdoors and infostealers. Authorities are also raising alarms about AI-assisted fraud, with three individuals accused of using deepfakes to impersonate CEOs and defraud businesses of over $129 million. In Japan, an emergency cybersecurity package was announced following a wave of attacks on corporations and government agencies. Additionally, vulnerabilities in OpenSSH are being actively exploited, allowing attackers to bypass authentication on certain Linux systems. Finally, there is growing concern over attacks targeting industrial refrigeration systems, which could have serious implications for food safety and supply chains.
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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.