> TODAY'S SUMMARY (108 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical incidents and trends. A global outage of Microsoft 365 services, affecting Outlook and Teams, is raising concerns about potential exploitation by cybercriminals during the disruption. In data breach news, Uber confirmed the theft of thousands of drivers' licenses due to a security incident at a cloud service provider, while TSMC reported a data breach linked to a cloud vendor, emphasizing the risks associated with third-party services. Additionally, the FBI has attributed over $400 million in cryptocurrency theft to North Korean hackers using deepfake video calls. On the malware front, the international law enforcement operation "Endgame" successfully disrupted Gootloader and CastleRAT infrastructures, while new vulnerabilities in Check Point gateways have been exploited for destructive attacks. Phishing attacks are surging, particularly in Europe, with notable increases in detection rates.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 16:00
Alfred Hitchcock could not have written a better script. It seems that the Angry Birds can find out where you live simply by your downloading their app.
Barclay Simpson’s information security contract division has published its first quarterly rate card for contractors in the IT security industry, noting that technology risk consultants can earn £710 a day, ranging down to data privacy analysts who can command £475 a day.
In its annual review of the top business IT trends for the year ahead Verizon says that high-IQ networks and the enterprise cloud will foster business innovation and a borderless workstyle in 2012.
China's NetQin - in conjunction with a research team with North Carolina state university - claim to have discovered a new type of Android trojan that disguises itself as a Google Library.
Codenomicon has taken the wraps off a completely reworked version of Defensics X, its security and robustness testing application. The new version is billed as using fuzzing techniques to enhance its capabilities.
An in-depth report from AV-Test.org claims that the raft of Android anti-malware apps that have arrived in the last 12 months or so are all virtually useless.
The latest issue of Which? Computing – the magazine of the UK Consumer’s Association – has published a special report on privacy on the Facebook social network services.
Computershare, the international share dealing company – which claims to be the largest in its market – has been hit by a data theft incident from a former employee. What perhaps makes matters worse is that the staffer was an audit risk professional.
The saga of Russia’s ChronoPay electronic money operation – which has been hit by arrests and dark accusations over the last 12 months – continued this week with the revelation that an Estonian company is a key investor in the firm.
A poorly contained data breach and mishandled response could cost companies millions of dollars in lost business and damaged reputation, warns Forrester analysts.
Apple has fixed 17 vulnerabilities in Java for OS X Snow Leopard and Lion, a move that brings the Mac operating systems up to date with Oracle’s Java SE 6 update 29.
The newest version of Firefox plugs eight security holes, including five that are rated as critical and three as high.
An intermediate web certificate authority has had its trust revoked by Mozilla after it was found to issue weak and potentially compromisable certificates.
Adobe has perhaps bowed to the inevitable and, in a notice to developers, advised them that it is ceasing development of the Adobe Flash environment for smartphones and tablets, although critical security and bug fixes will be available.
Reports are coming in that officials in Estonia – arguably one of the most internet-savvy governments in the world – have taken down a massive DNS-changing cybercrime operation involving a click-fraud program that infected more than four million computers in over 100 countries.
When is a flaw not a flaw? When it's a feature of the operating system, it seems, as serial Apple Mac cracker Charlie Miller has tapped a feature of Apple's portable operating system and created an iPhone/iPad app that allows almost complete remote access to the device.
Kaspersky Lab has made the interesting discovery that there is a massive DNS poisoning attack under way in Brazil, with several ISPs in the country falling victim to the attacks.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to increase investment in cybersecurity research by 50% over the next five years and focus more on offensive cyberwar capabilities, according to the head of the agency.
Infosecurity has reported on the value of stolen credit and debit card credentials several times this year, but now a security researcher has analyzed the value of individual credentials such as your birthday or mother's maiden name – that's right, they all have a value.
Information security professionals collaborating to outsmart hackers was cited as the most effective way to preempt hacker attacks, according to a survey of Wisegate members.