> 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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IT security researchers have warned of the emergence of a new, better-hidden version of the Bugat financial malware used to commit online fraud.
The Stuxnet malware that has attacked Iranian nuclear facilities and Chinese computers is a “paradigm shift” in the war to protect critical infrastructures around the global, warns the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).
A survey just completed claims to show that around two-thirds (65%) of IT managers have no idea where their organisation's mobile devices are, and that almost half of respondents are unable to manage PCs and Macs together.
It seems that spammers are starting to use the so-called 'SHY' character – aka a soft hyphen – to fool IT security applications into allowing email applications to allow click-throughs to suspect web pages.
The Australian military has seen cyber attacks against its networks jump from 200 per month last year to 700 attacks per month this year, according to the Australian Defence Signals Directorate.
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A former Unix engineer faces 10 years in jail for planting a malicious script designed to destroy data at troubled mortgage giant, Fannie Mae.
A potential data breach at Akamai Technologies was foiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), prosecutors disclosed this week.
Adobe Systems shares surged 12% after the New York Times said Microsoft may work more closely with the company and possibly acquire it.
Up and coming IT security vendor Prevx has just signed Christopher Bolin, a former CTO with McAfee, as its new president, and Infosecurity caught up with him this week to discuss his gameplan.
It seems that spammers are starting to use the so-called 'SHY' character – aka a soft hyphen – to fool IT security applications into allowing email applications to allow click-throughs to suspect web pages.
Adobe Systems shares surged 12% after the New York Times said Microsoft may work more closely with the company and possibly acquire it.
Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular browser clients currently in use and, as a result is attracting the attentions of hackers, some of whom have developed a keylogger trojan that forces the client to store passwords automatically.
An online activist group – apparently using the 4Chan web portal as its forum – started a major distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) at around midnight CET yesterday evening against the web portal of the Spanish copyright protection society, the SGAE.
A global standard is needed for point-to-point encryption (P2PE) technology used to secure credit card transactions, according to Troy Leach, chief standards architect at the PCI Security Standards Council. Standards are needed to ensure consistency and enable verification of the technology’s perfor...
The unique device identifier (UDID) on an iPhone can be used in collecting data that poses privacy concerns, warns Bucknell professor Eric Smith.
IT security standards are mainly set by dominant technology suppliers, rather than independent organizations, according to a German information security official.
IT security standards are mainly set by dominant technology suppliers, rather than independent organisations, according to a German information security official.
Information security technologies have never been as important as they are now, says the German Informatics Society (GI).
The fate of self-confessed 'UFO hacker' Gary McKinnon – who has been on the cusp of being extradited to the US to face charges in connection with unauthorized access to US military networks – will be decided within a matter of weeks, rather than months.