SecurityWeek

In security, we talk about trade-offs all the time. Recent events have highlighted that whether or not we are doing it consciously, we are making decisions about security versus privacy versus convenience daily. The examples are seemingly limitless, and how we feel about them can change very quickly.

THE HAGUE - A Dutchman has been arrested in Spain in connection with last month's unprecedented cyberattack that reportedly slowed down the Internet, the Dutch prosecution service said.

Daily deals site and Groupon competitor, LivingSocial, said on Friday that it had fallen victim to a cyber attack that put its roughly 50 million users at risk.

Despite security issues such as lost or stolen devices or malicious attacks on the mobile device, businesses believe the benefits of mobility are worth the risks, Symantec found in a recent survey.

Just five days after Oracle released the patches, criminals have added exploits for Java’s recent flaws to their kits. Security firm F-Secure spotted the Java exploit in the wild, and noted that it began circulating online April 21.

On Thursday, Rapid7 advised users of Apple’s Safari Web browser to avoid opening “.webarchive” files, after the discovery of a vulnerability in the security model of the webarchive format.

WASHINGTON - US authorities charged with overseeing the financial sector are worried about its vulnerability to cyberattacks, they said in a report published Thursday.

A malicious campaign that started last summer is once again targeting Uyghur activist groups in China. The latest developments in this year-long fight is a new variant of the documents used to target the activists earlier this year.

SYDNEY - The Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed Friday it has been targeted by hackers many times, as they reportedly look to access market-sensitive information before public release. According to newly declassified documents and internal incident reports obtained by The Australian Financial Review, the ABS has been the subject of numerous attacks over the past four years.

Researchers at Solutionary say attack activity originated from North Korea has jumped exponentially in recent months.

The recent increase in the number and severity of cyber attacks around the world demonstrate that we’re squarely in an era referred to as the “industrialization of hacking” which has created a faster, more effective and more efficient sector profiting from attacks to our IT infrastructure.

According to a report released by Imperva this week, threat-blocking efficiency is greatly increased with the addition of crowd-sourced threat intelligence.

Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability in a popular Website configuration tool to gain remote access to Web servers, Cisco researchers said in an advisory.

SAN FRANCISCO - A hijacked Associated Press Twitter account that rattled markets with false word of an attack on the White House put the security of social media in the crosshairs Wednesday.

(ISC)², the non-profit information security professional body responsible for overseeing CISSP, has teamed up with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to offer a new professional certification for information security.