> 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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// AI-powered summary generated at 12:00
Hewlett-Packard is widely reported to be close to buying intrusion detection security software company ArcSight for $1.5bn.
A hacker who claims to be behind the "Here you have" email worm that clogged up corporate networks last week, says it was designed, in part, as a propaganda tool.
The Information Commissioners' Office (ICO) is investigating FIFA, the international football authority, over allegations that details of thousands of World Cup fans – including their passport data – were accessed by one or more members of staff and then sold on the black market.
Attacks on third-party applications have become a major threat to enterprise information security, says security firm NGS Secure of the NCC Group.
Last night the Global Risk Register – a non-profit organisation seeking to improve the risk management of businesses – was launched in at a special event in the London Cabinet War Rooms.
EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain, has announced that the .eu. element of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), an Internet security standard, is now one of the most secure in the world.
It looks like the summer security issues that plagued Adobe and its software users are continuing into September as Adobe has warned that hackers appear to be exploiting a previously unknown security hole in its PDF Reader and Acrobat programmes.
Research just released claims that 46% of employees in the UK worked from home or remotely during the summer period and, says Gridsure, the sponsor of the survey, the research showed that remote working has become important in terms of job satisfaction, especially if the technology is easy to use.
Some UK letting and estate agents are failing to notify the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) that they are handling people's personal information.
The US has released a 537-page guide on how to protect the country's electrical power grid from cyber attack.
Cloud computing company Salesforce.com has launched mobile apps for its enterprise social network, Chatter, on Apple, Google Android and RIM Blackberry devices.
Sourcefire, the company that created the Snort open source firewall software, has announced it is collaborating with Qualys to make its software fully integrated with the QualysGuard platform.
Microsoft has apparently quietly admitted yet another serious security flaw with Internet Explorer, but is working on a fix, says Rik Ferguson, a security consultant with Trend Micro.
A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Washington, have published a paper on the susceptibility of cars to wireless hacking.
Research released today claims that almost all lawyers are struggling to cope with the challenges of digital information, to the point where information overload has either lost them a case or resulted in them being fined or sanctioned in the last two years.
Unemployed computer science graduates should look for security and mobile IT jobs to increase employment prospects.
Former HP chief executive Mark Hurd is to replace Charles Phillips as co-president of Oracle alongside Safra Catz a month after the HP board forced him to quit.
Network security, accuracy and reliability, and first-time connectivity have emerged as energy utility executives' key concerns for the proposed £10bn national smart meter project.
Reports are coming in that a Greater Manchester Police branded USB stick has been found by a member of the public outside a city police station.
Visa, the international payment card group, has taken the unprecedented step of suspending the Visa transaction processing facilities of one of its prepaid debit card members, ePassporte.