> TODAY'S SUMMARY (54 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several key threats and trends. Apple has introduced Secure Exclaves to enhance the protection of camera and microphone data while processing. Google released a second Chrome update this week to patch vulnerabilities that could enable code execution by attackers. Phishing attacks in Europe are surging at a rate significantly higher than the global average, increasing by 4.5 times year-over-year. Law enforcement agencies arrested 354 individuals in a major crackdown on dark web criminal activities, while operations targeting malicious infrastructures like Gootloader and CastleRAT have disrupted significant cybercrime networks. Additionally, critical vulnerabilities in systems like Check Point and Citrix have been exploited, emphasizing the ongoing risk of zero-day flaws. The recent worldwide outage of Microsoft 365 has raised alarms about potential exploitation by cybercriminals during this disruption.
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While Forrester Research predicts the cloud security market will grow to $1.5bn by 2015, cloud adoption is outpacing security controls, a global survey has revealed.
The Dutch National Crime Squad's High Tech Crime Team has taken down the Bredolab botnet that had infected at least 30 million computers worldwide.
In what prosecutors are claiming is a precedent-setting case, a pair of pay-TV pirates have been given lengthy prison sentences and ordered to pay approaching two million euro to Sky TV's German operation.
The Mozilla Foundation has made much in recent months about its Firefox bug-spotting programme, which rewards spotters with cash when they report security flaws on the popular web browser software. But now it appears that a 12-year-old has scooped an amazing $3000 for doing just this.
Unconfirmed reports that the hacker coding gang behind the ZeuS trojan are now working with their SpyEye counterparts gained credence last night when security researcher Brian Krebs reported on the move.
Wikileaks has released over 350 000 documents relating to the Iraq war, claiming 60% of deaths were of civilians.
Adobe Systems has issued a security advisory that a critical vulnerability exists in Shockwave Player 11.5.8.612 and earlier versions for Windows and Mac.
State chief information officers (CIOs) are appealing to the federal government for aid in implementing information security initiatives, according to Charles Robb, senior policy analyst with the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO).
Thirteen of the world's most promising security start-ups will go head-to-head in a Dragons' Den-style pitch for funding in London next month.
External IT security auditors are a rare breed in our industry, but Infosecurity was fortunate enough to be able to talk to Matthijs van der Wel, a manager of investigative responses with Verizon Business recently.
It appears that the evercookie – a zombie cookie that can remain after the deletion of cookies from a web browser – can be disabled after all, despite earlier claims by researchers.
Open source developers have released the source code for an Android privacy tool that found 50% of apps tested were sending personal information to advertising companies.
A doctor left documents containing personal and diagnostic information about 56 patients on a train after taking it home to work on after hours.
The number of large US companies reporting unauthorized intrusions in their networks increased to 67% in 2010 from 41% in 2009, according to VanDyke Software’s Enterprise IT Security Survey.
Australia’s New South Wales government does not know whether its agencies have adequate information security safeguards in place, according to a report by the state’s auditor-general.
It appears that online frauds are not generating the revenues they used to, as Panda Security says it has seen a fraud campaign whose pitch is aimed at Russian speakers.
Biometrics-driven border controls in the UK are now well advanced, with a trial at London Stansted so successful, that the technology is now being rolled out at Heathrow Airport.
Senetas Technology is teaming with ID Quantique (IDQ) and Siemens to deploy the first commercial quantum cryptography system in the Netherlands, according to the companies.
The UK government plans to spend £650m over four years on a National Cyber Security Programme to beef up the nation’s defenses against cyber attack.
Local media reports in the Lake District have revealed that an unencrypted USB stick – apparently containing details on the Sellafield nuclear site's operations – have been found by a coach driver in a Cumbria hotel room.