> TODAY'S SUMMARY (110 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats and trends. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting everyday users with spyware, indicating a shift towards more indiscriminate attacks. Additionally, vulnerabilities in widely used platforms like SAP and Google Chrome have been actively exploited, with SAP releasing critical patches for multiple flaws. The Russian state-linked Turla group continues to pose a threat, using advanced tools like "Cereal" to intercept emails from government servers. Meanwhile, supply chain attacks remain a concern, evidenced by the recent Qubole incident, which compromised numerous organizations' credentials. Overall, the rise in cloud vulnerabilities and the exploitation of AI in cyberattacks are emerging as critical areas for organizations to address.
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Biometrics has changed in several significant ways over the last decade, according to a prominent expert in the field.
Users of IT security products should see no gaps in service resulting from floods in Britain, despite the location of several vendors in some of the worst-affected towns.
Google is buying its way into the infosecurity market, through purchasing security service provider Postini for $625 million (ÂŁ310m, EUR458m) in cash, it said on 9 July.
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Eighty per cent of infected websites have been compromised by a third-party hacker, according to the latest threat statistics from Sophos.
Lloyds TSB has purchased pattern-recognition software from US vendor Actimize for detecting employee fraud within its retail banking operation. Use of such software is already common in financial services for spotting fraud in external transactions, such as credit card spending.
One gang is responsible for more than half of all attempted phishing for the likes of online banking log-in details, and has found ways to extend the lives of its web-sites, according to researchers at Cambridge University.