> TODAY'S SUMMARY (21 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights several significant threats and trends. Microsoft 365 is experiencing a widespread outage affecting services like Outlook and Teams, causing operational disruptions. In vulnerability news, the PHP2Shell exploit was leveraged in attacks against Check Point Gateways, while a new zero-day vulnerability in N-central named 4EverAble2Shell was exploited shortly after its proof of concept was published. Additionally, North Korean hackers have reportedly stole over $400 million in cryptocurrency through sophisticated social engineering tactics involving fake video calls. The FBI has seized $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency linked to these North Korean operations. On the patching front, Ubuntu has released updates to address various vulnerabilities, including server impersonation and server-side request forgery.
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Microsoft is to pay $200m in settlement of a patent infringement case brought by VirnetX.
Google has admitted that it mistakenly collected data sent over WiFi networks using its Street View cars gathering images for Google's controversial Street View service.
Reports are coming in that Facebook has identified the self-proclaimed hacker who was offering to sell batches of 1000 Facebook accounts – up to 1.5 million in total – and it appears that the Russian hacker was wildly overstating the account numbers.
Reports are coming in that Facebook has identified the self-proclaimed hacker who was offering to sell batches of 1000 Facebook accounts - up to 1.5 million in total - and it appears that the Russian hacker was wildly overstating the account numbers.
Facebook is once again in the news, as large numbers of users are being hit by a prank video posted to their Facebook walls.
The New Mexico Human Services Department informed users of its Salud! Medicaid plan that an unencrypted laptop containing personal health information was stolen back in March.
Earlier this week a San Diego jury convicted a Chinese national for attempting to smuggle communications equipment out of the country, including encryption devices used by the US military and NATO.
Cybercriminals are using Google Groups to distribute rogue anti-virus software and other malware, according to researchers at security firm eSoft.
Earlier this month the co-founders of anti-virus software vendor Sophos agreed to sell a majority stake in the company to private equity group Apax Partners in a deal worth $300 million.
Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure's chief research officer, says he applauds the actions of law enforcement offices around the world in bring increasing volumes of cybercrminals to justice in the first four months of 2010.
German enterprise software maker SAP has agreed to acquire US database and mobility software producer Sybase for $5.8bn.
Microsoft issued two security bulletins on Tuesday for what the company called “critical” patches to the Windows OS, Office suite, and Visual Basic.
A Florida couple accused of selling off patient records from a Miami-area medical center had their plea agreements rejected by a Federal court judge yesterday.
The Maryland Attorney General announced the state has settled a case against payment card processor Mid Atlantic Processing, which allegedly improperly disposed of 77 boxes containing client data.
Reports are coming in that large numbers of Twitter account holders have had their online accounts compromised, with the accounts apparently generating messages advertising a website that claims to help users attract more followers.
A newly released survey from (ISC)² shows that federal CISOs are avoiding cloud computing applications due to concerns about replicating IT security policy in the cloud.
Research just released claims to show that China, the US and the Russian Federation contributed 49% of all web-based threats reported in April 2010.
Fresh from its security problems of earlier in the week when members' chat sessions were visible to third-party users, Facebook has come under fire for allegedly installing applications on users' Facebook areas by stealth.
Fresh from releasing a range of encrypted drive kits at last week's Infosecurity Europe show, Origin Storage says that the steady stream of advances in brute force decryption techniques – which started when Russia's Elcomsoft released the first versions of its Password Recovery suite of 'utilities'...
Security professionals lack confidence that political parties will do anything to improve cyber security, according to a survey by security firm Proofpoint.