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Today's cybersecurity news highlights a range of significant threats and trends:
1. The City of Osaka has reported a data breach affecting 1 million residents, urging caution against phishing attempts disguised as government communications.
2. Trezor confirmed that malicious implants in hardware wallets sold by a reseller can steal sensitive recovery phrases, emphasizing risks in the cryptocurrency market.
3. Microsoft is grappling with a global outage of its 365 services, attributed to a bad update, raising concerns over the potential exploitation of this chaos by cybercriminals.
4. Security vulnerabilities in Check Point gateways have been exploited to deploy destructive malware, highlighting critical risks in security infrastructure.
5. New insights indicate that AI is influencing the evolution of ransomware tactics, suggesting that attackers may soon leverage AI for more sophisticated operations.
6. The FBI has linked North Korean hackers to significant cryptocurrency thefts, further stressing the ongoing threat posed by state-sponsored cybercrime.
7. Phishing incidents have surged in Europe, outpacing global trends, underscoring the need for enhanced vigilance and protection mechanisms against social engineering attacks.
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A fingerprint recognition system failed to prevent black-listed fans from entering football grounds and was easily fooled by simple spoofing techniques, according to a trial by Dutch research organisation TNO.
Finding the right balance between internet security and privacy is becoming increasingly hard when addressing cyber terrorism, experts at last week’s annual ISSE conference argued.
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 (£310m, EUR458m) in cash, it said on 9 July.
This year, the Victory Challenge team introduced security into their game plan as they challenged the Swiss defender Alinghi, in the 32nd America’s Cup.
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.