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Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh says modern cars have become ‘dystopian’ and ‘disconnected’

Volkswagen-backed startup Scout Motors broke cover just a few months ago, and at this week’s CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, they hold the honor of being one of the only American automakers with a presence at the show.  That’s not the only thing that stands out about Scout being here, though. In a sea…

SonicWall firewall hit with critical authentication bypass vulnerability

SonicWall is warning customers of a severe vulnerability in its SonicOS SSLVPN with high exploitability that remote attackers could use to bypass authentication. The bug is an improper authentication vulnerability in the SSL VPN authentication mechanism, according to emails sent to customers and published on SonicWall’s official subreddit. “We have identified a high (severity) firewall…

CES 2025: The weirdest tech products and claims from this year’s event

CES 2025 is in full swing. While the conference features reveals from tech powerhouses like Nvidia, Samsung, and Toyota, there are also some very strange product concepts and announcements circulating on the show floor. We’ve compiled the weirdest, silliest, and most eyebrow-raising products from CES 2025. A robotic cat that cools down your coffee for…

Major Vulnerabilities Patched in SonicWall, Palo Alto Expedition, and Aviatrix Controllers

Palo Alto Networks has released software patches to address several security flaws in its Expedition migration tool, including a high-severity bug that an authenticated attacker could exploit to access sensitive data. “Multiple vulnerabilities in the Palo Alto Networks Expedition migration tool enable an attacker to read Expedition database contents and arbitrary files, as well as…

New zero-day exploit targets Ivanti VPN product

A year after a series of vulnerabilities impacting a pair of Ivanti VPN products prompted an emergency directive from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to federal agencies, the Utah-based software firm is again experiencing issues with one of its signature systems. The company on Wednesday disclosed two vulnerabilities — CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-0283 — that…

Comcast and other TV streamers are now chasing YouTube’s ad dollars instead of the other way around

TV providers and streamers’ real competition isn’t each other, it’s social video. Or at least that’s what the president of Comcast Advertising, James Rooke, said during an interview on Wednesday at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. The ad exec was speaking about the company’s Monday launch of “universal ads,” a solution that lets marketers buy…

Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking

Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen explosive rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will end its third-party fact-checking system, loosen content moderation policies, and roll back previous limits to the amount of political content in user feeds.  Experts see…

Watch Duty surpasses ChatGPT as top free app on App Store as California fires spread

Watch Duty, an app to track wildfires with live maps and alerts, has become the No. 1 free app in Apple’s App Store as of Wednesday morning. The fire-tracking app surpassed the ChatGPT app for the No. 1 spot as devastating fires continue to rage across Southern California. ChatGPT had been in the No. 1…

Google’s Daily Listen AI feature generates a podcast based on your Discover feed

Google is testing a new “Daily Listen” feature that automatically generates a podcast based on your Discover feed. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that Daily Listen is a personalized AI-powered audio experience that is designed to help you stay up to date on the topics you care about.  The feature is currently rolling out on…

Doublepoint launches free Apple Watch app to control devices with hand gestures

Finnish startup Doublepoint launched its free app, WowMouse, for the Apple Watch this week at CES 2025. The app uses the wearable’s sensors, compass, and accelerometer to turn your hand into a mouse that can control devices through hand gestures. The Apple Watch already uses a similar technology for the double tap feature it released…

Video editing app Captions switches to a freemium model to boost growth

Video editing app Captions is looking to cash in on uncertainty around TikTok and ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut’s future in the U.S. by turning to a freemium model. The app, backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, has been a paid-only app until now. However, the company is changing its course to…

The Hidden Costs of Poor Access Management: Why Small Businesses Can’t Afford to Ignore It

When a former employee retains access to sensitive systems months after leaving, it’s more than a security oversight—it’s a serious business risk. Learn true costs of poor access management, from immediate impacts to long-term reputation damage, and discover practical steps to protect your business. The post The Hidden Costs of Poor Access Management: Why Small…

Openreach chooses Nokia to build open-access fiber network to connect millions to faster broadband

Nokia building open access platform to accelerate fiber broadband services for millions of UK homes and businesses. Nokia’s intent-based model enables Openreach to reduce operations support systems (OSS) complexity by 85 percent. Nokia’s domain controllers allow Openreach to fully automate and simplify network operations, driving scalability and operational efficiency throughout its network9 January 2025 Nokia…

PrettyDamnQuick snaps up $25M to speed up online checkout

A startup hoping to provide a credible alternative to Amazon has picked up funding to double down on the gap in the market. PrettyDamnQuick (PDQ) provides tech to retailers to let them customize and test different shipping and checkout flows, and now it has picked up a deal of its own: a $25 million Series…

Accenture Launches AI Refinery for Agentic AI Journeys

On the heels of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025, Accenture announced the launch of its new AI Refinery for Industry to correspond with the event. The refinery will begin with a collection of 12 industry agent solutions to assist enterprises with rapidly building and deploying a network of AI agents that can enhance its…

Neue Hinweise zur angeblichen Ransomware-Attacke auf Atos

Tobias Arhelger – Shutterstock.com Die Ransomware-Bande Space Bears veröffentlichte Ende Dezember 2024 einen Hinweis auf gestohlene Daten von Atos. Der französische IT-Dienstleister teilte jedoch daraufhin mit, dass es keinen Ransomware-Angriff auf seine Systeme gegeben habe. Allerdings räumt das Unternehmen ein, dass die Daten von einer kompromittierten Infrastruktur eines Drittanbieters stammen. Um welchen Anbieter und welche…

Tesla directors to pay up to $919 million to settle claims they overpaid themselves

A Delaware judge has approved a settlement that will see Tesla directors – including Chair Robyn Denholm, Oracle founder Larry Elison, Kimbal Musk, and James Murdoch – return up to $919 million to the automaker, officially resolving allegations that they overpaid themselves, per Reuters.  The settlement concludes a 2020 lawsuit by the Police and Fire…

East coast gas surplus on the immediate horizon but longer-term regulatory certainty needed to avoid future shortfalls

How Australia’s leading enterprises are tackling product design challenges The increasing complexity of digital product development is driving Australian enterprises to seek new solutions to streamline their design and development processes. As teams grow larger and more distributed, organisations are investing in integrated platforms to manage end-to-end product delivery more effectively.

New Banshee Stealer Variant Bypasses Antivirus with Apple’s XProtect-Inspired Encryption

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new, stealthier version of a macOS-focused information-stealing malware called Banshee Stealer. “Once thought dormant after its source code leak in late 2024, this new iteration introduces advanced string encryption inspired by Apple’s XProtect,” Check Point Research said in a new analysis shared with The Hacker News. “This development allows it…

Rounded is an AI orchestration platform that lets anyone build an AI voice agent

French startup Rounded believes AI voice agents are going to become the default way customers interact with companies, so instead of building AI voice agents that are ready to use, the company is building an orchestration platform that lets companies build their own voice agent. Rounded started off working on a web3 product before shifting…

Biosphere zaps germs with UV light to make biomanufacturing cheaper

Using LEDs has the potential to bring down the cost of biomanufacturing, allowing such processes to make materials that previously would have been too expensive.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

China-linked hackers target Japan’s national security and high-tech industries

Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA) and the National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) have exposed a long-running cyber espionage campaign, “MirrorFace” (also known as Earth Kasha), allegedly linked to China. The campaign, operational since 2019, has targeted Japanese organizations, businesses, and individuals, primarily to exfiltrate sensitive data related to national security…

Xocean raises $119M to capture ocean data with uncrewed surface vessels

Xocean, an Irish marine robotics startup that provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), has raised €115 million ($119 million) as it looks to expand coverage to additional sectors. Founded in 2017, Xocean has built a fleet of remotely-controlled USVs that can remain offshore for long periods of…

VLC tops 6 billion downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system. The new feature automatically generates real-time subtitles — which can then also be translated in many languages — for any video using open-source AI models that run locally on users’ devices, eliminating…

MirrorFace Leverages ANEL and NOOPDOOR in Multi-Year Cyberattacks on Japan

Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA) and National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NCSC) accused a China-linked threat actor named MirrorFace of orchestrating a persistent attack campaign targeting organizations, businesses, and individuals in the country since 2019. The primary objective of the attack campaign is to steal information related to Japan’s national

Neues Mirai-Botnet zielt auf Industrierouter

Das Botnet Gayfemboy basiert auf der Malware Mirai und zielt auf Industrierouter auf der ganzen Welt. Jaiz Anuar – Shutterstock.com Security-Analysen zufolge verbreitet sich das auf der berüchtigten Mirai-Malware basierende Botnet Gayfemboy derzeit auf der ganzen Welt. Forscher von Chainxin X Lab stellten fest, dass Cyberkriminelle das Botnet seit November 2024 nutzen, um bislang unbekannte…

Critical RCE Flaw in GFI KerioControl Allows Remote Code Execution via CRLF Injection

Threat actors are attempting to take advantage of a recently disclosed security flaw impacting GFI KerioControl firewalls that, if successfully exploited, could allow malicious actors to achieve remote code execution (RCE). The vulnerability in question, CVE-2024-52875, refers to a carriage return line feed (CRLF) injection attack, paving the way for HTTP response splitting, which could…

Top Cybersecurity Conferences & Events in India 2025 

The Indian cybersecurity ecosystem is experiencing significant growth, making it one of the fastest-growing and most important technology spaces globally. As cyber threats increase in scale and sophistication, it’s essential… The post Top Cybersecurity Conferences & Events in India 2025  appeared first on Strobes Security. The post Top Cybersecurity Conferences & Events in India 2025 …

Top 10 Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Tools for 2025

DLP tools protect sensitive information from unauthorized access, sharing, or accidental loss. With the rise in data breaches and cyber threats, companies must safeguard their intellectual property, personally identifiable information (PII), and financial data.  Are Data Loss Prevention Tools Required? While not every business is legally required to implement DLP tools, the growing prevalence of…

Flipkart taps Dunzo founder to lead quick commerce push

Flipkart has hired Kabeer Biswas, co-founder of Indian delivery startup Dunzo, as the Walmart-owned e-commerce group expands its quick commerce business in the world’s most populous nation. Biswas will lead Flipkart’s quick commerce business, called Flipkart Minutes, a source familiar with the situation told TechCrunch. The move follows Flipkart engaging with Biswas over a potential…

SOAR buyer’s guide: 11 security orchestration, automation, and response products — and how to choose

Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) has undergone a major transformation in the past few years. Features in each of the words in its description that were once exclusive to SOAR have bled into other tools. For example, responses can be found now in endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools. Orchestration is now a joint…

Ivanti Flaw CVE-2025-0282 Actively Exploited, Impacts Connect Secure and Policy Secure

Ivanti is warning that a critical security flaw impacting Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways has come under active exploitation in the wild beginning mid-December 2024. The security vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-0282 (CVSS score: 9.0), a stack-based buffer overflow that affects Ivanti Connect Secure before version 22.7R2.5, Ivanti Policy Secure before version…

Elon Musk agrees that we’ve exhausted AI training data

Elon Musk concurs with other AI experts that there’s little real-world data left to train AI models on. “We’ve now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge …. in AI training,” Musk said during a live-streamed conversation with Stagwell chairman Mark Penn streamed on X late Wednesday. “That happened basically last year.” Musk, who…

Video: A Look Back On The Channel In 2024 With Channel Insider

With 2024 officially in the rearview mirror, the Channel Insider editorial team discuss the events, news stories, and disruptions that shaped the IT channel in 2024. Managing Editor Victoria During and Staff Writer Jordan Smith join Katie Bavoso for an in-depth discussion of a year that saw no shortage of seismic shifts. From the biggest…

We talked to the guy who was stuck in a Waymo robotaxi on an dizzying loop

A month ago, a video circulated around social media of a Waymo robotaxi stuck in a roundabout loop – an isolated incident with no passengers in the vehicle, according to Waymo. Apparently, it wasn’t a one-time thing. Around the same time, in another Waymo robotaxi headed for the Phoenix airport, Mike Johns, founder and CEO…

The U.S. has a new cybersecurity safety label for smart devices

The White House this week announced a new label for internet-connected devices, the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, intended to help consumers make more-informed decisions about the cybersecurity of products they bring into their homes. To earn the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, which is being administered by the Federal Communications Commission, companies have to test their…

The LiberLive C1 stringless instrument isn’t a guitar, and that’s fine

I’m old enough to remember musicians getting angry over Guitar Hero. But they always seemed to be missing the point. Nobody was seriously suggesting that a video game controller would replace an instrument that’s been going strong since the 15th century. Guitar Hero was a fun game, and if it persuaded a new generation to…

CES 2025 was full of IRL AI slop

It’s 2025, and companies still don’t know what AI is good for. That’s the impression I got from this year’s CES, which featured AI-powered kitchen appliances, baby cribs, and other products that really weren’t calling for AI. See: Spicerr, an “intelligent” touchscreen-equipped spice dispenser that learns your taste as you cook to recommend unique recipes.…

The Risc-V architecture that can shape the future of computing

Open source software rightly gets a lot of attention; open source hardware has its part to play too. One development drawing increasing attention in both technical and executive circles is RISC-V, pronounced “risk five”. While many industries have long relied on established processor architectures such as ARM and x86, RISC-V offers a fresh approach—particularly in areas of…

Ivanti warns critical RCE flaw in Connect Secure exploited as zero-day

IT software provider Ivanti released patches Wednesday for its Connect Secure SSL VPN appliances to address two memory corruption vulnerabilities, one of which has already been exploited in the wild as a zero-day to compromise devices. The exploited vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0282, is a stack-based buffer overflow rated as critical with a CVSS score of…

UN agency’s job application database breached, 42,000 records stolen

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on Tuesday said that it is “actively investigating reports of a potential information security incident allegedly linked to a threat actor known for targeting international organizations,” and has initially concluded that “approximately 42,000 recruitment application data records from April 2016 to July 2024” were stolen. In its initial statement,…

CES 2025: The weirdest tech products and claims from this year’s event

CES 2025 is in full swing. While the conference features reveals from tech powerhouses like Nvidia, Samsung, and Toyota, there are also some very strange product concepts and announcements circulating on the show floor. We’ve compiled the weirdest, silliest, and most eyebrow-raising products from CES 2025. A robotic cat that cools down your coffee for…

Astrohaus launches a mechanical keyboard for writers

Astrohaus has cornered a very specific niche. The Michigan-based startup builds hardware for writers looking to eliminate distractions. It’s really tough finishing up that novel when Instagram exists, after all. While the company has made its name bucking most tech trends, however, its latest offering has found a bandwagon to jump onto. Announced at CES…

Mitigating Risks with Privileged Access Management

Why is Privileged Access Management Crucial for Risk Mitigation? Managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) has become a central issue. The complex landscape of digital transformation is precipitating increased attention towards effective Privileged Access Management (PAM). But what exactly is PAM? How does it contribute to risk mitigation? Let’s dissect this crucial cybersecurity strategy. Understanding Privileged Access…

Optimizing Cloud Security with Advanced Secrets Scanning

Why is Secrets Scanning Critical for Cloud Security? Have you ever considered how secrets scanning could be the vital ingredient your organization needs to optimize cloud security? As technology advances at a relentless pace, so do the threats and vulnerabilities that pose significant risks to business operations. The challenge for cybersecurity professionals lies in equipping…

DNA sequencer vulnerabilities signal firmware issues across medical device industry

In highlighting vulnerabilities in a widely used DNA gene sequencing device, security researchers have brought further attention to the likely poor state of security in the medical device industry, where hardware and firmware development is often outsourced to external equipment manufacturers under questionable support contracts. The device, Illumina’s iSeq 100 compact DNA sequencer, is used…

Grok may soon get an ‘Unhinged Mode’

Last April, Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, teased a mysterious “Unhinged Mode” for X’s AI-powered chatbot, Grok. Nearly a year later, xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, has updated an FAQ page on its website that sheds light on the new mode. Grok in Unhinged Mode will provide responses “intended to be objectionable,…

Ingram Micro Promotes Sanjib Sahoo to President of Global Platform Group

Global technology distributor Ingram Micro has appointed longtime executive Sanjib Sahoo as the company’s new president of its global platform group. Sahoo will lead strategy and collaborate with key leadership across the globe to identify and execute opportunities to further develop the company’s Xvantage platform. Sahoo will oversee ‘all aspects’ of platform strategy Sahoo’s new…

Halliday’s $489 smart glasses beam a tiny screen to your eye

Walk up to someone wearing a pair of Halliday’s smart glasses, and you might not notice they’re looking at smartphone notifications, live language translations, or advice from an AI assistant. The only giveaway is the tiny green dot of light on their eyeball. Wearables startup Halliday launched a pair of smart glasses at CES 2025…

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