> 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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San Diego-based St. Bernard Software recently announced its purchase of email security firm Red Condor.
Terry Childs, a former city of San Francisco network administrator, received a four-year sentence on Friday for his earlier conviction on computer tampering charges.
There are signs that hackers are again turning to the recurring avenue of using attractive image files as a means to persuade internet users to infect their machines, through the usage of downloadable links to 'allow' users to view the files.
Reports from DefCon 2010 last weekend showed how it is possible to persuade a mobile phone to log into a rogue base station created using around $1,500 worth of hardware. And, says an IT security vendor, this highlights how the 'evil twin' hacking methodology used on WiFi networks can be redeployed...
The exploit for Adobe Reader and Acrobat unveiled by researcher Charlie Miller at last week’s Black Hat conference in Las Vegas has been confirmed by Adobe, which says it will issue an out-of-band patch for the exploit by mid-August.
Security writer Brian Krebs says he has conducted a straw poll and analysis of the top IT security applications and found that large numbers of them fail to utilize the standard security features of Microsoft Windows.
The European Commission has announced a new schedule for the revision of the European Union Data Protection Directive, delaying legislative proposals for over a year, according to the French Information Commissioner's Office, CNIL.
Security writer Brian Krebs says he has conducted a straw poll and analysis of the top IT security applications and found that large numbers of them fail to utilise the standard security features of Microsoft Windows.
Apple has advised users of all its mobile devices that run on iOS to avoid opening PDFs until a fix is released for a newly discovered flaw.
Apple has advised users of all its mobile devices that run on iOS to avoid opening PDFs until a fix is released for a newly discovered flaw.
From their Silicon Valley office, David Perry, global education director of Trend Micro, told Infosecurity that it’s no longer sufficient to detect code, but instead, it’s more productive to detect the source of the code.
Microsoft plans to release an emergency security update for Windows today to patch a recently reported vulnerability in the way the operating system creates desktop shortcuts.
Research just released claims to show that a growing number of small to mid-sized businesses are starting to embrace the benefits of cloud computing technology, with 14% having adopted the platform by the end of June of this year.
Today sees anti-spam specialist Cloudmark launching its free standalone spam filter – Cloudmark DesktopOne. The software, which has been on beta test since April of this year, is unusual in its ability to filter webmail services, as well as POP3 and IMAP email.
The world’s largest dedicated IT security firm became just a little bit bigger today, as McAfee announced plans to purchase tenCube, the privately owned provider of the WaveSecure mobile security service.
In his keynote at Black Hat, 29th July 2010, retired General Michael Hayden, who served as director of the CIA and deputy director of National Intelligence, says cyber warfare was inevitable considering the internet has not been built with defense in mind.
Rather than consulting a crystal ball, the Information Security Forum (ISF) looked to experts in the field – including those from its member organizations – to develop a set of security risk predictions for 2012 and beyond.
Jailbreaking Apple iPhones to bypass code aimed at limiting the applications and carriers owners can use is unlikely to violate EU copyright laws.
Qualys has taken the wraps off BlindElephant, an application security utility that analyses web applications running on company systems and is billed as allowing security professionals and systems administrators to identify everything running on their servers, including any web applications users ma...
A privacy storm is brewing following the collation and publication on filesharing services of the details of around 100 million Facebook users by a security researcher.