> 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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Information security technologies have never as important as they are now, says the German Informatics Society (GI).
The Stuxnet worm marks a watershed in IT security management, says Thomas de Maizière, German minister of the interior.
The advent of sophisticated new malware such as Stuxnet could hamper the development of cloud computing and consequently economic development, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday.
The cryptography work of three GCHQ workers in the 1970s – a decade before the precursors to today's internet got under way – has been recognised in an awards ceremony carried out this morning.
Hard on the heels of last week's UK and US arrests of cybercriminals using the ZeuS malware to siphon money from internet users' bank accounts, comes news that a third batch of hackers, this time in the Ukraine, have been arrested.
Demand for IT staff continues to rise, resulting in shortages in some software skills, according to the latest research.
The advent of sophisticated new malware such as Stuxnet could hamper the development of cloud computing and consequently economic development, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday.
The police cybercrime unit can tackle only 11% of the 6000 known organised criminal gangs that regularly use computers for illegal purposes, the head of the Metropolitan Police admitted at the weekend.
Symantec has published an in-depth report on the Stuxnet malware in which it notes that, whilst the worm was first discovered in July, it is known to have existed at least one year prior and likely even before.
A survey of more than 9000 adults in the UK, US, Europe and Canada, has revealed that internet users in the UK feel more at risk from banking fraud than ever before.
Just like the Greek god that is its namesake, Zeus is the king of bank fraud trojan viruses, having been used by thousands of criminals to scam perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars from banking customers around the world for years. The recent busts of Zeus fraudsters in the US and the UK are just...
The European Commission has proposed a new directive on attacks against information systems to replace current, outdated frameworks.
Stuxnet, the computer worm considered to be the world's first cyber weapon, has hit millions of computers in China.
Adobe plans to release updates on October 5 for Adobe Reader 9.3.4 for Windows, Mac and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 for Windows and Mac, and Adobe Reader 8.2.4 and Acrobat 8.2.4 for Windows and Mac to resolve critical security issues.
In the days of dial-up modems, malware authors developed trojans and other black code that dialled premium rate numbers in the background and so generating revenues for their criminal gangs. Today, thanks to the arrival of landline broadband, the process of background premium rate calls – driven by...
Barclays Bank plans to rewrite its software applications so they can communicate with one another using encryption to lessen the likelihood of fraudsters finding a way into its systems
The German government's new national ID card – which will start being issued this November – has been publicly hacked on TV by members of the infamous Chaos Computer Club.
Tomorrow is the day that the new PCI DSS 1.2 rules kick in, requiring all level one merchants – defined as firms processing more than 6 million transactions per year – to adhere to the v1.2 security guidelines, or face possible action by their card processor.
Hard on the heels of the spate of Twitter attacks comes news that LinkedIn members are being targeted by carefully crafted fake connection requests that route users to the ZeuS data-downloading malware.
Virtualisation is the key to better information security in cloud computing, says Eric Baize, a board member at cross-industry security initiative, SAFECode.