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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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Movies have a funny habit of becoming reality and the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers, starring Robert Redford, is no exception.
The FBI is investigating a $9m large-scale ATM fraud using cards cloned from US card processor RBS Worldpay.
Anti-malware vendor Kaspersky's site was hacked over the weekend, using an SQL injection attack. While admitting that the site was vulnerable, Kaspersky is denying that the vulnerabiity was critical. The hacker nevertheless listed what he said was the full set of tables from the firm's MySQL databas...
On Saturday, Google users were warned that all their search results were potentially harmful, due a widespread result of human error.
The annual report from IBM's X-Force security operation shows what many IT managers have suspected for some time, namely that Web application vulnerabilities represent the major risk for most organisations.
On Saturday, Google users were warned that all their search results were potentially harmful, due to a widespread result of human error.
ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, has developed a new business model for IT security.
If you've had a high company phone bill recently, spare a thought for Martin & Hillyer, a law firm in Burlington, Ontario.
Overclockers.co.uk (OCUK), an online computer hardware reseller firm, have announced they are placing a bounty of ÂŁ10 000 on the heads of hackers behind a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on their web site earlier in the month.
Here's a lesson in IT contingency planning, courtesy of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway network company, whose IT systems - including station indicator boards, electronic ticketing, self-service counter tickets and Internet pages - all went off line on January 14 due to single UPS failing.
'NASA hacker' Gary McKinnon has won permission from the High Court to apply for a judicial review against his extradition to the United States.
The UK government’s Infosec Training Paths and Competencies (ITPC) scheme is to transfer to the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) with effect from 1 April 2009.
According to his lawyer, Karen Todner, Gary McKinnon, who may be facing extradition after confessing to hacking into US military computers, was told yesterday that the UK High Court would delay his hearing until the director for public prosecutions had considered the case following McKinnon's diagno...
Approximately one quarter of stalking or harassment cases in the US include an element of cyberstalking, according to a report from the Bureau of Justice statistics this week.