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Casio says a recent cyberattack has caused some system disruptions and it’s investigating whether a data breach has occurred. 

Online summit is laser focused on helping organizations to level up their Identity and Zero Trust security strategies.

CreditRiskMonitor says hackers may have accessed personal information of employees and independent contractors. 

The EU has set up a system for imposing sanctions against people accused of cyberattacks, information manipulation or acts of sabotage on behalf of Russia.

The iPhone Mirroring feature in macOS Sequoia and iOS 18 may expose employees’ private applications to corporate IT environments.

Cyberespionage APT GoldenJackal has been targeting air-gapped systems at government organizations and embassies.

Ivanti says a few more CSA zero-day vulnerabilities have been found to be exploited in attacks where they are chained with CVE-2024-8963.

ICS security advisories were published on Tuesday by Siemens, Schneider Electric, Phoenix Contact and CERT@VDE.

Patch Tuesday: Redmond warns that attackers are rigging Microsoft Saved Console (MSC) files to execute remote code on targeted Windows systems. 

Adobe documents 25 vulnerabilities in Adobe Commerce and warns of code execution and privilege escalation exposure.

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Threat intelligence firm Intel 471 has appointed Mark Huebeler as its COO and CFO.

Omkhar Arasaratnam, former GM at OpenSSF, is LinkedIn’s first Distinguised Security Engineer

Defense contractor Nightwing has appointed Tricia Fitzmaurice as Chief Growth Officer.

Xage Security has appointed Russell McGuire as CRO and Ashraf Daqqa as VP of the META region.

Solana co-founder Stephen Akridge has been appointed the CEO of data protection firm Cyber Grant.

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Patch Tuesday: Redmond warns that attackers are rigging Microsoft Saved Console (MSC) files to execute remote code on targeted Windows systems. 

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Google and Amnesty have seen evidence that a Qualcomm chipset vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-43047 may be exploited in the wild.

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The largest U.S. water utility disconnects customer portal and suspends billing services following a cyberattack.

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The perfctl malware has been targeting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in millions of Linux systems, likely infecting thousands.

The China-linked group Salt Typhoon hacked AT&T and Verizon, possibly compromising wiretap systems, according to WSJ.

Inside the collapse of IronNet: Some say the firm collapsed, in part, because it engaged in questionable business practices, produced subpar offerings, and could have been vulnerable to meddling by the Kremlin.

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RSA, The Security Division of EMC and endpoint security firm Lumension today announced an agreement to embed parts of the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite into Lumension products. The initial goal will be for Lumension to build DLP classification technology and expert RSA DLP policy libraries into future versions of its Device Control product module.

Although more than 80 percent of the respondents to a new survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute expressed concern about the security of social media, more than half of these same individuals admitted they do not take any steps to actively protect themselves.

IT security risk and compliance management solutions provider, Qualys, today added a new feature to its QualysGuard Vulnerability Management solution to help customers identify and implement patches to eliminate vulnerabilities in their IT environments.

A survey of IT security professionals, those who should be security conscious, has revealed that over half of respondents (52%), admit to carrying company data on a USB stick with no encryption. The survey also revealed that 11% of the security savvy audience ‘protected’ their devices with passwords only, an insufficient defense that is easily breached.

As cybercrime continues to grow and become more complex, businesses must race to implement tools, technologies and strategies to protect their organizations.Frost & Sullivan cites Cybercrime as the primary driving factor in the growth of the North American Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Market. The firm estimates that managed security service providers generated revenues of $1.20 billion in 2009 and estimates this to reach $3.90 billion in 2016.

PandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory of Panda Security, has reported a new proliferation of scams that highjack the Facebook "Like" option. The attacks use bogus messages that look like they’re from friends, with topics related to the popular game Farmville, the film Sex and the City 2 or simply the keyword “sex.” Unwary Facebook users who click on the links in these messages are taken to a Web page containing photos and videos of the relevant topic.

It was a shocking discovery that had security experts around the world concerned. In 2008, security researcher Dan Kaminsky exposed a serious flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) that allowed cyber criminals to easily impersonate websites, intercept email, or steal passwords to hack into corporate networks via DNS cache poisoning attacks.

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