CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the global leader in identity security, announced the launch of FuzzyAI, a cutting-edge open-source framework that has jailbroken every tested AI model. Fuzzy AI helps organisations identify and address AI model vulnerabilities, like guardrail bypassing and harmful output generation, in cloud-hosted and in-house AI models. FuzzyAI’s fully extensible framework is available as open-source…
Month: December 2024
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Fastly AI Accelerator Helps Developers Unleash the Power of Generative AI
COMPANY NEWS: Fastly expands support to include OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
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Pineapple on pizza is delicious — and if you disagree, you can’t log in to WordPress.org
There are few matters in life that divide a room more than the prudence of putting pineapple on pizza. But if you’re of the persuasion that tropical fruit has no place on a pie, you’ll have to swallow a bitter pill — if you want to access the WordPress.org developer portal and forum, at least.…
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Even Great Companies Get Breached — Find Out Why and How to Stop It
Even the best companies with the most advanced tools can still get hacked. It’s a frustrating reality: you’ve invested in the right solutions, trained your team, and strengthened your defenses. But breaches still happen. So, what’s going wrong? The truth is, that attackers are constantly finding new ways to slip through cracks that often go…
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Dragos Industrial Ransomware Analysis: Q3 2024
GUEST RESEARCH: Dragos’s Industrial Ransomware Analysis Report Q3 2024 revealed that the ransomware threat ecosystem remained highly active, driven by the emergence of new groups, rebranding of existing entities, the expansion of initial access broker (IAB) operations, and the proliferation of illicitly traded tools. Operators demonstrated a growing ability to adapt to disruptions, leveraging technological advancements…
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Top 5 Cryptographic Key Protection Best Practices
We’re sharing top 5 cryptographic key protection best practices. The post Top 5 Cryptographic Key Protection Best Practices appeared first on Zimperium. The post Top 5 Cryptographic Key Protection Best Practices appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Remote enables USDC crypto payouts for contractors
Getting paid in cryptocurrencies may sound like a bad idea, but this could be an actually useful feature for international contractors. Remote, the company that lets you hire people and manage contractors all around the world, is introducing crypto payouts on Tuesday. Companies based in the U.S. can start paying their contractors with stablecoins in…
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ACCC concludes resale fixed line services access determination inquiry
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has concluded a combined public inquiry into making access determinations for the three resale fixed line services – wholesale line rental, local carriage service, and wholesale (asymmetric digital subscriber line) ADSL.
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EU to investigate TikTok’s response to election security risks in Romania
TikTok is now subject to not one but two open Digital Services Act (DSA) investigations after the European Union announced on Tuesday that it has opened a formal proceeding focused on election risks — and specifically risks in the context of recent elections in Romania. The probe will focus on TikTok’s recommender systems — principally “risks…
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2024 Threat Landscape: Ransomware Activity, Vulnerability Exploits, and Attack Trends
GUEST OPINION: Now we’ve reached the end of another year, you may be looking around the cybersecurity infosphere and seeing a glut of posts offering “hot takes” on the 2024 threat landscape and predictions about what’s coming next. At Rapid7, we don’t truck in hot takes, but rather, cold hard facts. Staying ahead of adversaries…
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Boomi Boosts Data Management Capabilities With Acquisition of Modern Data Integration Provider Rivery
Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation leader, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Rivery, a modern data integration provider that offers cutting-edge Change Data Capture (CDC) for real-time, efficient data movement. Rivery’s skilled data management team will join Boomi, strengthening the company’s ability to deliver world-class solutions to customers and accelerate its trajectory as…
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Nozomi Predictions 2025
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While some account-to-account payments players falter, Volume raises fresh cash
Online merchants can usually pay up to 8% of every sale on an item to companies like PayPal, Apple Pay, and Stripe — and those costs are usually passed to consumers. So-called ‘account-to-account’ or ‘A2A’ payments can cut transaction fees to below 1%, saving merchants and consumers quite a bit of cash. The difficulty has been…
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Travel is back: Hostaway raises $365M at a $925M valuation
The tourism and travel industries — after several tough years that included not just a global health pandemic but economic and geopolitical upheaval — are finally back on track, expected to make a “full recovery” to pre-pandemic levels of activity, the UN said earlier this month. As an indicator of that, Hostaway, one of the…
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Meta to set up $50M privacy payment scheme to settle Australian proceeding
Meta has agreed to a $50 million payment program to settle a long-running proceeding in Australia related to misuse of information for political ad targeting, the country’s information watchdog OAIC announced Tuesday. The settlement concerns the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, when data on millions of Facebook users was exfiltrated without their knowledge or consent by…
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Bitter APT Targets Turkish Defense Sector with WmRAT and MiyaRAT Malware
A suspected South Asian cyber espionage threat group known as Bitter targeted a Turkish defense sector organization in November 2024 to deliver two C++-malware families tracked as WmRAT and MiyaRAT. “The attack chain used alternate data streams in a RAR archive to deliver a shortcut (LNK) file that created a scheduled task on the target…
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BlueAnt’s Pump X Headphones to Fuel Workouts with Booming Bass and Cooling Gel Ear Pads
Workout and fitness optimised design of the Pump X over-ear headphones combines sweat resistance, a secure-yet-comfortable fit, robust construction, and a bit of bling Easy-swap ear pads come in both Everyday memory foam and Cooling Gel, with both included in the box 35dB of Active Noise Cancellation and 34hrs play time (ANC on) / 58…
Global Security News
New APIs Discovered by Attackers in Just 29 Seconds
Wallarm honeypot research finds potentially exposed APIs are being discovered within half a minute
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EU to Investigate TikTok Over Romanian Elections
The European Commission opened a formal investigation over concerns foreign actors used the hugely popular video platform to interfere in Romanian presidential elections.
Global Security News
5 Practical Techniques for Effective Cyber Threat Hunting
Addressing cyber threats before they have a chance to strike or inflict serious damage is by far the best security approach any company can embrace. Achieving this takes a lot of research and proactive threat hunting. The problem here is that it is easy to get stuck in endless arrays of data and end up…
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HR professionals confident AI will improve organisational productivity and performance
But survey highlights industry concerns about regulatory changes, risks of bias, accuracy and discrimination HR professionals are overwhelmingly confident AI will boost productivity and performance but many are concerned about data and security, the latest research from the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) shows.
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Dynatrace Named a Leader in Both the Cloud-Native Observability and Security Quadrants in the 2024 ISG Provider Lens, Multi-Public Cloud Solutions Report
COMPANY NEWS: Reflects company’s ability to empower customers with the analytics and automation required to make smarter business decisions, enhancing their business reliability and operational resilience
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Kakao Mobility hit with $10.5M antitrust fine for limiting rivals’ access
South Korea’s antitrust watchdog has fined Kakao Mobility, the ride-hailing unit of Korean tech firm Kakao, $10.5 million (KRW 15.1 billion) for limiting competitors’ access to its taxi app — lowering the penalty from an initial fine of $50.3 million (KRW 72.4 billion) as the earlier sanction was based on an overestimated calculation of the…
Global Security News
AI Can Take the Slog Out of Compliance Work, but Executives Not Ready to Fully Trust It
A wave of startups offering artificial-intelligence-infused compliance software are promising to help organizations meet complex new regulations while keeping costs in check. But compliance executives are proceeding with caution.
Global Security News
Broadcom’s AI Success Won’t All Come at Nvidia’s Expense
There’s a new trillion-dollar AI chip maker in town, but the old one is still going to do just fine.
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Atturra Ends 2024 On An Award-Winning High
COMPANY NEWS: Atturra, a leading advisory and technology services business specialising in designing, implementing, and maintaining IT solutions, is ending 2024 on a high after being recognised by the IT industry with an array of prestigious vendor awards in the past few months.
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Kris Day Joins SentinelOne as Senior Vice President and General Manager Asia Pacific and Japan
COMPANY NEWS : SentinelOne (NYSE: S), a global leader in AI-powered security, today announced the appointment of Kris Day as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific and Japan. Based in Singapore, Day is a proven leader with an extensive track record of broad-based achievement. At SentinelOne, he will focus on charting the company’s go-to-market and growth…
Global Security News
US Unveils New National Cyber Incident Response Plan
The draft plan is designed to help businesses understand how the government will support them during a cyber incident
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Neo4j Supports Career and Skills Portal for DXC Technology
COMPANY NEWS: DXC Career Navigator boosts DXC Technology’s internal hiring by 12% and cuts attrition by 40%, enhancing the business’ competitive edge.
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All Major European Financial Firms Suffer Supplier Breaches
SecurityScorecard claims 100% of Europe’s top financial services companies have suffered a supply chain breach in the past year
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US moves to tighten restrictions on China Telecom amid security fears
The US Commerce Department is intensifying its actions against China Telecom’s US unit over concerns that its cloud and internet services could be used to funnel American data to Beijing, according to a Reuters report. The department issued a preliminary finding last week, stating that China Telecom Americas’ involvement in US networks and cloud services presents…
Global Security News
Hackers Exploit Webview2 to Deploy CoinLurker Malware and Evade Security Detection
Bogus software update lures are being used by threat actors to deliver a new stealer malware called CoinLurker. “Written in Go, CoinLurker employs cutting-edge obfuscation and anti-analysis techniques, making it a highly effective tool in modern cyber attacks,” Morphisec researcher Nadav Lorber said in a technical report published Monday. The attacks make use of fake…
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Carlsberg Cleared to Proceed With $4.2 Billion Britvic Deal After Antitrust OKs
Carlsberg announced plans in July to buy the U.K. soft drinks giant, in a move to develop its Nordic bottling business and strengthen its presence in Western Europe.
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Secure Equipment Repair Policy and Confidentiality Agreement
Organizations must frequently work with third parties to repair laptops, desktops, tablets, smartphones, servers, and other IT equipment. This customizable policy, written by Erik Eckel and Mark W. Kaelin for TechRepublic Premium, ensures an organization maintains regulatory and best business practice security compliance while tracking systems when they are being repaired. Featured text from the…
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Agave, the startup behind Find the Cat, finds $18M
A startup out of Turkey that has built a hit casual mobile game where you have to find cats in Where’s Wally-style drawings of increasing complexity has found something else: $18 million in funding. Agave Games, the creator of Find the Cat, will be using the Series A to build out the team and to…
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Alphabet-backed Indian lender files for IPO
Alphabet’s CapitalG-backed Aye Finance, a lender focused on India’s micro, small, and medium enterprises, is seeking to raise $171 million from its initial public offering, it disclosed in a filing Tuesday. The offering comprises a $104 million fresh share issue and a $67 million secondary sale by existing investors, with proceeds aimed at expanding the…
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LW ROUNDTABLE — How 2024’s cyber threats will transform the security landscape in 2025
Continuing our look back at 2024, part two of Last Watchdog’s year-ender roundtable turns its focus to emerging threats vs. evolving defense tactics. Part two of a four-part series The explosion of AI-driven phishing, insider threats, and business logic abuse … (more…) The post LW ROUNDTABLE — How 2024’s cyber threats will transform the security…
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The Mask APT Resurfaces with Sophisticated Multi-Platform Malware Arsenal
A little-known cyber espionage actor known as The Mask has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting an unnamed organization in Latin America twice in 2019 and 2022. “The Mask APT is a legendary threat actor that has been performing highly sophisticated attacks since at least 2007,” Kaspersky researchers Georgy Kucherin and Marc…
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Indonesia Plans to Pitch Data-Center Opportunities to Elon Musk
The chairman of Indonesia’s National Economic Council said he would continue pitching business opportunities in the coming months, including the possibility of building data centers for xAI.
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Nubank leads $250M round in African digital bank Tyme at $1.5B valuation
Tyme Group, a South African-born fintech operating in the African country and the Philippines, has secured $250 million in a Series D round, pushing its valuation to $1.5 billion. The funding was led by Nu Holdings (which owns NuBank), Latin America’s most valuable fintech, which invested $150 million for a 10% stake. M&G Catalyst Fund…
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Hexa, the startup studio behind Aircall and Swan, unveils its next batch of startups
Hexa, a Paris-based startup studio that has launched dozens of B2B software companies, is sharing a list of its next batch of projects that are soon going to become independent startups. Hexa originally started its life in 2011 as eFounders, a startup studio focused on B2B software-as-a-service products. Hexa usually comes up with the ideas…
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Top 10 cybersecurity misconfigurations: Nail the setup to avoid attacks
While cybersecurity headlines are often dominated by the latest zero-day or notable vulnerability in a vendor’s software/product or open-source software library, the reality is that many significant data breaches have been and will continue to be due to misconfigurations. To underscore the serious of this issue, the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity…
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CISA and FBI Raise Alerts on Exploited Flaws and Expanding HiatusRAT Campaign
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added two security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of flaws is below – CVE-2024-20767 (CVSS score: 7.4) – Adobe ColdFusion contains an improper access control vulnerability that could allow an attacker to…
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Data Security Predictions for 2025: Putting Protection and Resilience at Center Stage
Data Security Predictions for 2025: Putting Protection and Resilience at Center Stage madhav Tue, 12/17/2024 – 05:10 Cybersecurity is a remarkably dynamic industry. New trends, technologies, and techniques reshape the landscape at an extraordinary pace, meaning keeping up can be challenging. Protecting data, the driving force of modern businesses, will continue to be the primary…
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DORA steht vor der Tür
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Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has 100M daily active users
Meta’s X rival Threads is growing steadily with more than 100 million people using the service daily, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday. Zuckerberg also noted that Threads now has 300 million monthly active users, up from 275 million monthly active users in November. While Meta has regularly released updated numbers about monthly active…
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FakeCaptcha scams—When the “I’m not a robot” button is a trap
How many times you’ve clicked the “I’m not a robot” CAPTCHA checkbox without a second thought? We’ve all done it … countless times. It’s such a familiar step that we don’t question it. And, cybercriminals have taken note of that. The post FakeCaptcha scams—When the “I’m not a robot” button is a trap appeared first…
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Waymo robotaxis are coming to Tokyo in 2025
Waymo will begin testing its autonomous vehicle technology in Tokyo in early 2025, the first time the Alphabet company’s robotaxis have driven on public roads outside the U.S. The move to Japan is part of Waymo’s so-called “road trips,” a development program that involves bringing and testing its technology in a variety of cities —…
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Cohere is quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models
The Canadian AI startup has quietly partnered with Palantir to put Cohere’s models in use with unnamed Palantir customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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10 telltale signs of a fake giveaway on social media
Who wants a free phone or gift cards? Perhaps a free vacation? It’s easy to understand the allure of giveaways on social media. But here’s the catch: not all giveaways are real. Fake giveaways are one of the many traps scammers use to steal your personal data, money, or even gain access to your accounts.…
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Jay Z’s Marcy Venture Partners merges with investment arm of Pendulum Holdings
Jay Z’s venture capital firm, Marcy Venture Partners, has merged with another Black-owned investment firm, Pendulum Holding’s investment arm Pendulum Opportunities, to form MarcyPen Capital Partners, a MarcyPen spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. The newly formed MarcyPen Capital Partners has $900 million in assets under management, according to Pitchbook. MarcyPen’s spokesperson declined to comment further on…
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BlackBerry to Sell Cylance to Arctic Wolf
Arctic Wolf plans to integrate Cylance’s EDR technology into its XDR platform.
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FBI spots HiatusRAT malware attacks targeting web cameras, DVRs
The FBI warned today that new HiatusRAT malware attacks are now scanning for and infecting vulnerable web cameras and DVRs that are exposed online. […]
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Texas Tech University System data breach impacts 1.4 million patients
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and its El Paso counterpart suffered a cyberattack that disrupted computer systems and applications, potentially exposing the data of 1.4 million patients. […]
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Telekom Malaysia launches locally hosted sovereign GPUaaS
Telekom Malaysia (TM) has unveiled its locally hosted sovereign GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) solution, with the expressed aim of bolstering Malaysia’s AI infrastructure and accelerating digital transformation.
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Security Vendor Dashlane Launches First Formal Partner Program
Credential-based threat defender Dashlane has worked with channel businesses for several years and has now launched the organization’s Dashlane Partner Program to formalize the benefits for various reseller partners worldwide. “Our partner program is foundational to our growing investment in the channel and our mission to deliver the credential security that enterprises and their employees…
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iRobot co-founder’s new home robot startup hopes to raise $30M
Colin Angle, one of the co-founders of Roomba maker iRobot, is raising cash for a home robotics venture. A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that Angle’s new company, Familiar Machines & Magic, is trying to raise $30 million. So far, it has raised $15 million from a group of eight investors.…
Global Security News
Amazon Teamsters Authorize Third Strike at U.S. Facility
Illinois union members joined workers in New York CIty in calling for a work stoppage after the Teamsters gave Amazon a Dec. 15 deadline to agree to come to the table and bargain for a contract.
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APAC: Ransomware to Cause ‘Bumpy’ Security Ride in 2025
Cashed-up ransomware criminals may exploit more zero days while potential blanket ransomware payment bans hang over defenders like a shadow.
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Kali Linux 2024.4 released with 14 new tools, deprecates some features
Kali Linux has released version 2024.4, the fourth and final version of 2024, and it is now available with fourteen new tools, numerous improvements, and deprecates some features. […]
Global Security News
TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Intervene on U.S. Ban
The Chinese-backed app is seeking to delay the ban’s Jan. 19 effective date.
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TuSimple drama heats up ahead of pivotal shareholder meeting
TuSimple co-founder and former CEO Xiaodi Hou is on a war path in the lead up to Friday’s annual shareholder meeting that will decide the makeup of the company’s board of directors. Over the past several weeks, Hou has sued TuSimple for control of his voting rights, demanded the company immediately liquidate and return all…
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Arctic Wolf acquires Cylance from BlackBerry for $160 million
Minnesota-based Arctic Wolf, a cybersecurity operations firm, announced an agreement Monday to acquire BlackBerry’s Cylance business for $160 million, a stark drop from the $1.4 billion BlackBerry initially paid to acquire the startup in 2018. Arctic Wolf is integrating Cylance’s AI-powered endpoint security technology into its platform to broaden its security solutions. With this acquisition,…
Europe, Global Security News
EOLO deploys Europe’s first 5G SA mmWave RAN in Italy
Italian FWA (fixed wireless access) telecoms provider EOLO, has deployed what is claimed to be the first 5G standalone mmWave RAN (radio access network) in Europe, using equipment from Finnish vendor Nokia.
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When & Why to Hand Over the Keys to Your Kubernetes Infrastructure
In the constantly maturing landscape of cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes reigns as the de facto standard for container orchestration. However, managing Kubernetes infrastructure can be a complex and resource-intensive task, particularly if your organization doesn’t have a bench of Kubernetes experts in-house (and few do). There are many benefits to handing over the keys to your…
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TikTok asks Supreme Court for a lifeline as sell-or-ban deadline approaches
TikTok and ByteDance asked the United States Supreme Court to block the law that forces TikTok to be sold off or banned in the United States, according to an emergency filing with America’s top court on Monday. The social media company requested that the Supreme Court consider blocking the sell-or-ban law passed earlier this year…
Global Security News
Does Desktop AI Come With a Side of Risk?
Artificial intelligence capabilities are coming to a desktop near you — with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google Gemini with Project Jarvis, and Apple Intelligence all arriving (or having arrived). But what are the risks?
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Citizen Development Moves Too Fast for Its Own Good
While low-code/no-code tools can speed up application development, sometimes it’s worth taking a slower approach for a safer product.
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CISA pitches updated cyber incident response plan as an ‘agile, actionable’ framework
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Monday opened a month-long public comment period for its updated draft plan detailing how the public and private sectors should respond to significant cyber incidents. The revamped National Cyber Incident Response Plan — an effort from CISA, the agency’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative and the Office of the…
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DEF CON 32 – Iconv, Set The Charset To RCE Exploiting glibc To Hack The PHP Engine
Author/Presenter: Charles Fox Our sincere appreciation to DEF CON, and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their erudite DEF CON 32 content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Las Vegas Convention Center; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 32 – Iconv, Set The Charset To RCE Exploiting glibc To Hack…
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TechCrunch Space: Sayonara
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. This will be the final TechCrunch Space newsletter you receive in 2024, so to all our readers, have a wonderful holiday and see you next year. There’s a lot to look forward to next year. I expect to see much more progress from SpaceX on Starship, big changes…
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Called your doctor after-hours? ConnectOnCall hackers may have stolen your medical data
The hackers stole names, phone numbers, dates of birth and information related to health conditions, treatments and prescriptions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Windows kernel bug now exploited in attacks to gain SYSTEM privileges
CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against ongoing attacks targeting a high-severity Windows kernel vulnerability. […]
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OpenAI brings its AI-powered web search tool to more ChatGPT users
ChatGPT Search, OpenAI’s AI-powered web search experience, is now live for all ChatGPT users — with several new features in tow. By default, ChatGPT will automatically determine which questions to route through ChatGPT Search, or users can tap a new “Search the web” icon in the ChatGPT interface. ChatGPT Search shows summarized answers from different…
Global Security News, Security
Malicious ads push Lumma infostealer via fake CAPTCHA pages
A large-scale malvertising campaign distributed the Lumma Stealer info-stealing malware through fake CAPTCHA verification pages that prompt users to run PowerShell commands to verify they are not a bot. […]
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Instagram now lets you schedule DMs
Instagram has quietly rolled out the ability for users to schedule direct messages. The Meta-owned social network confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday that the new feature is rolling out to all users globally. The option to schedule DMs will be especially useful for creators and brands that want to schedule outreach messages at optimal times.…
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PHP backdoor looks to be work of Chinese-linked APT group
Cybersecurity researchers at a China-based cybersecurity company have uncovered an advanced PHP backdoor that suggests a new asset in the arsenal of Chinese-linked Advanced Persistent Threat group Winnti. Researchers at QiAnXin’s XLab discovered the backdoor, which they titled Glutton, targeting China, the United States, Cambodia, Pakistan, and South Africa. After initially discovering the malware in…
Global Security News
The Education Industry: Why Its Data Must Be Protected
The sector must prioritize comprehensive data protection strategies to safeguard PII in an aggressive threat environment.
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Arctic Wolf and BlackBerry announce acquisition agreement for Cylance
Arctic Wolf to enhance its Security Operations Aurora Platform with best-in-class endpoint prevention, detection, and response COMPANY NEWS: Two global leaders in security software and services have announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Arctic Wolf to acquire BlackBerry’s Cylance® endpoint security assets.
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XDR provider Arctic Wolf buys BlackBerry’s Cylance suite
US provider Arctic Wolf has struck a deal to buy BlackBerry’s Cylance endpoint security suite, which it will integrate into its Aurora extended detection and response (XDR) platform. Arctic Wolf said this morning that if the deal is approved by regulators, the company will be able to offer one of the largest open XDR security…
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Google experiments with a new image generator that remixes three images into one creation
Google Labs, Google’s experimental arm, is testing a new image generator called Whisk. This tool allows people to prompt with images instead of text, allowing them to remix a photo by altering the subject, scene, and style. Whisk uses Google’s image-generation model, Imagen 3, to combine three images: one for the subject, another for the…
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Tesla offers free Supercharging for Model S with a catch
Tesla is trying to boost its Model S sales before the year is out, but it’s got a funny way of doing it. After initially abandoning its free Supercharging for life offer in 2018, the automaker is bringing it back for some Tesla Model S cars at the end of the year. It’s something of…
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YouTube creators can now allow third-party companies to train AI models on their content
Google says that it’ll soon begin to allow YouTube creators and rightsholders to let third-party companies including OpenAI, Apple, and Meta to use their videos to train AI models. “Over the next few days, creators and rights holders can choose to allow third-party companies to use their content to train AI models directly in Studio…
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Comic Agilé – Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, Luxshan Ratnaravi – #316 – Simplicity
via the respected Software Engineering expertise of Mikkel Noe-Nygaard and the lauded Software Engineering / Enterprise Agile Coaching work of Luxshan Ratnaravi at Comic Agilé! Permalink The post Comic Agilé – Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, Luxshan Ratnaravi – #316 – Simplicity appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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YouTube will now let creators opt into third-party AI training
YouTube on Monday announced it will give creators more choice over how third parties can use their content to train their AI models. Starting today, creators and rights holders will be able to flag for YouTube if they’re permitting specific third-party AI companies to train models on the creator’s content. From a new setting within…
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YouTube will now let creators opt out of third-party AI training
YouTube on Monday announced it will give creators more choice over how third parties can use their content to train their AI models. Starting today, creators and rights holders will be able to flag for YouTube if they’re permitting specific third-party AI companies to train models on the creator’s content. From a new setting within…
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Shielding Your Storefront: How SASE Protects Retailers in a Digital Age
SASE offers a comprehensive and scalable security solution that protects your data, safeguards your customers and empowers you to thrive in the digital age. The post Shielding Your Storefront: How SASE Protects Retailers in a Digital Age appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Meta updates its smart glasses with real-time AI video
Meta’s Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are getting several new AI-powered upgrades, including the ability to have an ongoing conversation and translate between languages. Ray-Ban Meta owners in Meta’s early access program for the U.S. and Canada can now download firmware v11, which adds “live AI.” First unveiled this fall, live AI lets wearers continuously converse…
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What is Instagram’s Threads app? All your questions answered
Twitter alternatives — new and old — have found audiences willing to try out a newer social networks since Elon Musk took over the company in 2022. Mastodon, Bluesky, Spill and T2 are some of the social media platforms people are among them. So is Meta’s Threads platform. What is Threads? How do you create…
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ConnectOnCall breach exposes health data of over 910,000 patients
Healthcare software as a service (SaaS) company Phreesia is notifying over 910,000 people that their personal and health data was exposed in a May breach of its subsidiary ConnectOnCall. […]
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Why We Should Insist on Future-Proofing Cybersecurity Regulatory Frameworks
There are concerns around the future adaptability and efficacy of regulatory frameworks, particularly among the developer community. The post Why We Should Insist on Future-Proofing Cybersecurity Regulatory Frameworks appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora
Google DeepMind, Google’s flagship AI research lab, wants to beat OpenAI at the video generation game — and it might just, at least for a little while. On Monday, DeepMind announced Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI and the successor to Veo, which powers a growing number of products across Google’s portfolio. Veo 2 can…
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Rhode Island Benefits and Services Systems Hit by Ransomware
Hackers likely stole personal information such names, addresses, and SSNs in a ransomware attack on Rhode Island’s human services systems and are threatening to release the data as state and federal officials and Deloitte scrambling to mitigate the data breach. The post Rhode Island Benefits and Services Systems Hit by Ransomware appeared first on Security…
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Softbank CEO announces a $100 billion investment into the US
On Monday, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son announced that his company would invest $100 billion into the US over the next four years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Rhode Island confirms data breach after Brain Cipher ransomware attack
Rhode Island is warning that its RIBridges system, managed by Deloitte, suffered a data breach exposing residents’ personal information after the Brain Cipher ransomware gang hacked its systems. […]
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Israeli spyware maker Paragon bought by U.S. private equity giant
The company’s spyware, dubbed Graphite, is capable of hacking phones and stealing private communications. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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YouTube’s latest test lets creators post voice notes as comments
YouTube is experimenting with a new way to engage fans by giving creators the ability to post voice notes and reply to comments on their videos, the company announced on Monday. The ability to post voice notes is limited to certain creators in the U.S. for the time being. YouTube says they’ll only be able…
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CISA and EPA Warn of Cyber Risks to Water System Interfaces
CISA and EPA have published guidance for operators of water and wastewater systems to protect against cyber-attacks
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Meta put on watch over terrorism content in the EU
Ireland’s media regulator has put social media giant Meta on watch over terrorist content takedowns again — it issued a decision against Facebook on Monday. The Coimisiún na Meán said the tech giant would have to take “specific measures” to prevent its services from being used for the dissemination of terrorist content and report back…
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BlackBerry sells Cylance for $160M, a fraction of the $1.4B it paid in 2018
Arctic Wolf has acquired Cylance, BlackBerry’s beleaguered cybersecurity business, for $160 million — a significant write-down from the $1.4 billion BlackBerry paid to acquire the company in 2018. Under the terms of the deal, which is expected to close in BlackBerry’s fiscal Q4, BlackBerry will sell its Cylance assets to Arctic Wolf for $160 million…