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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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Lord Erroll stole the limelight, and the audience’s attention on the ‘Who got caught out the last 12 months’ keynote panel at the Infosecurity Europe show in London, 28 April 2009, by calling for greater penalties and repercussions for cybercrime.
Last week, Infosecurity Magazine was at the RSA show in San Francisco. A variety of vendors launched new products.
Join Infosecurity magazine and Check Point software technologies in a webinar discussing `software blades,' a new architecture that allows companies to select from a library of over 20 software-driven systems to create a tailored security gateway for specific environments.
Despite the need for security being exaggerated in an economic downturn, smaller IT security companies will suffer, says Dave Hansen, Corporate SVP &GM Security Business Unit at CA, speaking to Infosecurity at the RSA conference in San Francisco.
Despite the need for security being exaggerated in an economic downturn, smaller IT security companies will suffer, says Dave Hansen, Corporate SVP &GM Security Business Unit at CA, speaking to Infosecurity at the RSA conference in San Francisco.
Privacy International has slammed the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ruling that Google Street View does not contravene the Data Protection Act.
Tufin Technologies has announced a policy and security network API (application programming interface) initiative and has enlisted the support of several IT security vendors for the program.
SmoothWall has taken the wraps off a new rack-mounted web filtering appliance that uses the company's Guardian web filtering technology.
Finjan has uncovered what appears to be one of the largest bot networks controlled by a single cybercrime gang, with 1.9 million infected zombie computers forming the swarm.
AVG, the producers of one of the most popular free anti-virus applications, is now offering a free URL checking utility.
Although VOIP afficionadoes are wont to promote the encrypted nature of Skype Internet telephony calls, it's now becoming accepted that the use of a compressed data mode within Skype opens the gates to pattern recognition and slow, but steady, text-based decoding of the voice transmissions as a resu...
It's been a complicated take-over, apparently, but Check Point Software Technologies has at last completed the acquisition of Nokia's security appliances business which was announced last year.
Powerpoint, Porn and Twitter
The organisers of the main Black Hat security conference - which takes place at the Moevenpick City Centre hotel in Amsterdam's Piet Heinkade this Thursday and Friday - have announced that presenters will reveal no less than six high profile vulnerabilities at the event.
The operators of Paul McCartney's web site were caught with their electronic pants down this week after the portal was found to be serving up malware.
Samsung, a name better known for its PC and mobile phone offerings, has signed veteran value-added distributor Wick Hill to handle its IT security products in the UK.
Even though version D of the Conficker worm failed to cause havoc - as was widely predicted - on April 1, the worm's methodology continues to cause problems in the shape of an updated version of the Neeris worm.
Hispasec Sistemas, one of Spanish-speaking world's rising IT security stars, has enhanced its online malware analysis service to accept programmes of up to 10 megabytes, as well as supporting an impressive 23 languages via its on-screen interface
Ghost in the machine The Information Warfare Monitor published a report on GhostNet, a cyber-espionage network that it discovered after conducting a security audit for the Dalai Lama's Tibetan Government in Exile. Almost 1300 machines were discovered in a micro-botnet controlled from servers mainly...
SQL injection will take a new turn later this month at Black Hat Europe, when a security researcher shows how to take control of a database server using the technique.