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Security-Infotainment: Die besten Hacker-Dokus

Sie fühlen sich leer ohne Security-Dashboard? Diese Dokumentationen überbrücken den Schmerz bis zum nächsten Arbeitstag. Foto: Gorodenkoff – shutterstock.com Wenn Sie in Ihrer Profession als Sicherheitsentscheider voll aufgehen, brauchen Sie möglicherweise auch zwischen den Arbeitstagen ihre tägliche Dosis Cybersecurity. Falls Ihnen die zahlreichen Annäherungen Hollywoods an das Thema viel zu weit von der Realität entfernt…

Rivian will launch hands-off highway driver assist ‘in a few weeks’

Rivian said Thursday it plans to launch a hands-off version of its driver assistance system for highway driving “in a few weeks,” and said an “eyes-off” version in 2026. The hands-off system will let Rivian compete with companies like Ford and General Motors, which have both launched similar systems in the past few years. (Ford…

Salt Typhoon gained initial access to telecoms through Cisco devices

Salt Typhoon gained initial access to Cisco devices as part of the Chinese nation-state threat group’s sweeping attacks on U.S. telecom networks, the company confirmed Thursday in a threat intelligence report. Cisco Talos, the networking vendor’s threat intelligence unit, said it observed one instance where Salt Typhoon likely exploited a seven-year-old critical vulnerability in Cisco…

Extreme Networks Announces Platform ONE for MSPs

AI-powered automation for networking organization Extreme Networks recently announced the upcoming general availability of Extreme Platform ONE for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Extreme Platform ONE is a solution built on a unique AI-driven multi-tenant architecture, consumption-based billing, and poolable licensing. It delivers unmatched flexibility, simplicity, and cost savings, enabling MSPs to manage customers at scale.…

6 new tech unicorns were minted in January 2025 so far.

Despite a still tight venture capital market, new unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the newly VC-backed startup minted unicorns so far this year as of the end of January. Those include healthcare companies like Hippocratic AI and satellite space companies like Loft Orbital.  This…

Driving Innovation with Secure Cloud Practices

Why is Innovation in Cybersecurity Crucial? An essential turn of the century question most organizations face is how they can innovate without compromising their cybersecurity. Can they really put a price tag on secure cloud practices? According to the World Economic Forum’s 2020 report, cyber threats rank among the world’s top long-term risks. With cyberattacks…

Feel Empowered: Managing Access with Precision

Access Management and NHIs: The Power Pairing in Cybersecurity? Managing access to sensitive data and systems is like navigating a complex maze. Can the precise control offered by Non-Human Identities (NHIs) provide security professionals the assured empowerment they seek? NHIs, or machine identities, form a critical part of modern cybersecurity frameworks. However, the management of…

Build a Confident Security Posture with Proven Tactics

Are Your Cybersecurity Tactics Building a Confident Security Posture? Have you ever wondered why certain organizations appear to have an impenetrable digital fortress, while others can’t seem to avoid falling victim to cyberattacks? The secret may lie in effective Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and Secrets Management. Where global digital transformation trends continue to evolve, a confident…

SEC rebrands cryptocurrency unit to focus on emerging technologies 

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that it was changing its Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit to the “Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit.” The regulator said its new unit will “focus on combatting cyber-related misconduct and to protect retail investors from bad actors in the emerging technologies space.” The newly rebranded unit will be…

Rivian inches closer to profitability but warns ‘changes to government policies’ could hurt

Rivian’s cost–cutting measures have gotten it a lot closer to profitability, but the company is warning that 2025 could still be a challenging year – especially because of the whorl of uncertainty caused by the new Trump Administration. The company announced Thursday its fourth quarter and full-year 2024 financial results, and along with it, shared…

Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover didn’t make people like him, study shows

A study by the Pew Research Center found that Americans’ views of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg skew more negative than positive. While Zuckerberg has sparked chatter in Silicon Valley with his sudden interest in high fashion, the Meta CEO is less popular than President Trump’s right-hand man, Elon Musk, the report found. While about…

How Page Protect Enabled Seamless PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance for a Leading Beverage Retailer

Discover how a leading beverage retailer achieved seamless PCI DSS 4.0 compliance before the March 31st deadline in minutes with DataDome’s Page Protect—no-code setup, real-time monitoring & script security. The post How Page Protect Enabled Seamless PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance for a Leading Beverage Retailer appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Meta starts accepting sign-ups for Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

Meta announced on Thursday that it’s now accepting sign-ups for its Community Notes program on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The announcement follows Meta news last month that it’s going to end its third-party fact-checking program and is instead moving to a Community Notes model similar to the one at X. In a blog post, Meta…

Beta Technologies’ bet on electric flight and Hyundai’s new Tesla charging port comes up short

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Fifteen years ago, I started writing about a little EV startup that was trying to survive even as others failed in the clean tech boom-and-bust cycle. Back…

Electric aircraft founder Kyle Clark threw out the Silicon Valley playbook

On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden flight of Beta Technologies’ first electric aircraft to be built on its new scaled production line. Kyle Clark, Beta’s enigmatic founder and CEO, piloted the Alia CX300 — one of the startup’s two aircraft models…

Trump’s FTC is looking into censorship on tech platforms

The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it will launch a public inquiry into “censorship by tech platforms,” soliciting comments from people who feel they have been demonetized, banned, or otherwise censored due to their speech or affiliations. “Tech firms should not be bullying their users,” said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson in a statement.…

Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative

Amazon Chime, the tech giant’s underwhelming alternative to Zoom and Google Meet, is shutting down for good. The company on Wednesday confirmed it will end support for Chime, including its Business Calling features, on Feb. 20, 2026. As part of this transition, Amazon stopped accepting new Chime accounts as of Feb. 19, 2025. From now…

Cherryrock Capital raises new $172M fund from all-star investors to back diverse founders

Cherryrock Capital, founded by ex-TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot, announced Wednesday the closing of its $172 million Fund I with an all-star limited partner list that includes JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, MassMutual, Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, Reid Hoffman, Mellody Hobson, and Sheryl Sandberg.  Brown-Philpot told Bloomberg that the fund actually closed in January.  The firm launched…

Figure’s humanoid robot takes voice orders to help around the house

Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which arrives two weeks after Adcock announced the Bay Area robotics firm’s decision to step away from an OpenAI collaboration, is centered around Helix, a “generalist” Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model. VLAs are a new phenomenon for robotics, leveraging…

Instagram’s new ad format lets creators get paid for testimonials in comments

Instagram is introducing a new way for creators to work with brands to make money by recommending products. On Thursday, Meta introduced an addition to its Partnership Ads called Testimonials, which allows creators to get paid via written endorsements, shared as comments on the brand’s social media posts and advertisements. The new ad format is…

Spotify partners with ElevenLabs to expand its library of AI-narrated audiobooks

On Thursday, Spotify announced that it now accepts audiobooks narrated using ElevenLabs’ AI voice technology. Given that ElevenLabs is currently among the most recognized AI audio providers, this new partnership is expected to boost the quantity of AI-narrated audiobooks on the platform. To upload an audiobook narrated by AI, authors need to download the file…

Sophos Announces Availability on Pax8 Marketplace

Security vendor Sophos is the latest to offer its solutions to MSPs through the Pax8 cloud marketplace. Both companies tout this new partnership as a way to enable small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) through the over 40,000 partners who transact through Pax8. Full breadth of Sophos security solutions now available to Pax8 partners Sophos claims…

Substack now lets creators monetize videos and post them directly from its app

As TikTok’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, Substack tries to lure creators to its platform by doubling down on video. The company announced on Wednesday that it’s now allowing creators to monetize their videos on the platform, and letting them publish video posts directly from the Substack app. Previously, creators have been able to…

Twitch caps streamers’ storage at 100 hours of highlights and uploads

Twitch on Wednesday announced it will begin limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads, and will delete content if a channel exceeds the limit. The company said it’s introducing the change because highlights haven’t been effective in driving discovery or engagement, and because storage is costly. The storage cap goes into effect on…

CISOs wollen Cloud-Security vorantreiben

Cloud-Security: CISOs setzen auf Application-Protection-Plattformen (CNAPP). Digitala World – Shutterstock.com 76 Prozent der deutschen CISOs planen in den kommenden 12 Monaten, ihre finanziellen Mittel verstärkt für Cloud-Security einzusetzen – insbesondere für Cloud-native Application-Protection-Plattformen (CNAPP). So das Ergebnis einer weltweiten Befragung unter 500 Security-Entscheidern im Auftrag des IT-Anbieters Westcon-Comstor. Demnach ist die Bereitschaft hierzulande, in den…

How CTEM Impacts Cyber Security Insurance Premiums?

Cyber insurance used to be an optional safety net. Now? It’s a must-have. With ransomware, data breaches, and cyberattacks on the rise, companies need protection against financial losses. But here’s… The post How CTEM Impacts Cyber Security Insurance Premiums? appeared first on Strobes Security. The post How CTEM Impacts Cyber Security Insurance Premiums? appeared first…

SmartSuite raises $38M to be the final word on enterprise collaboration

Three founders who built out one of the bigger startups in risk management are scaling a new company to take on another pain point in the world of work. SmartSuite‘s platform lets teams collaborate on projects, build automations around that work, and search and access work across larger libraries of data spanning a disparate number…

Mercor, an AI recruiting startup founded by 21-year-olds, raises $100M at $2B valuation

Mercor, the AI recruiting startup founded by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $100 million in a Series B round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Menlo Park-based Felicis led the round, valuing Mercor at $2 billion—eight times its previous valuation, the Wall Street Journal previously reported. Existing investors Benchmark, General Catalyst, and DST Global also…

Advisory M&A: AchieveUnite Acquires Rohner & Associates

M&A activity remains a key theme throughout the channel. AchieveUnite has acquired California-based Rohner & Associates, LLC (R&A). Theresa Caragol, the CEO of AchieveUnite and longtime thought leader on channel partner strategy, spoke with Channel Insider to share how the acquisition addresses market needs and reflects the changing channel landscape. AI-driven insights paired with decades…

North Korean Hackers Target Freelance Developers in Job Scam to Deploy Malware

Freelance software developers are the target of an ongoing campaign that leverages job interview-themed lures to deliver cross-platform malware families known as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret. The activity, linked to North Korea, has been codenamed DeceptiveDevelopment, which overlaps with clusters tracked under the names Contagious Interview (aka CL-STA-0240), DEV#POPPER, Famous Chollima,

Harness & Traceable Merge, Focus On AI-Driven Software Delivery

Harness, an end-to-end software delivery platform, and Traceable, an API security leader, recently announced they would merge to create an advanced AI-native DevSecOps platform. Companies join under the Harness brand, aim to address DevSecOps needs The combined company will move forward under the Harness name, uniting software delivery and security into a single, AI-native platform.…

PitchIT Program Creates Community Through Competition

Now entering its seventh year, the PitchIT accelerator program– supported by IT Nation– is a worldwide competition committed to incubating growth among ConnectWise’s startup integration partners in the managed service provider (MSP) space. Channel Insider sat down with IT Nation’s Vice President of Communities, Sean Lardo, to discuss the competition, its benefits to the channel,…

Why Bridging the Connected Care Gap is Mission Critical to the Future of Australian Healthcare

GUEST OPINION Farhoud Salimi – Chief Technology Officer at Telstra Health: Connected care represents the cornerstone of healthcare’s future within Australia—where seamless information flow will drive enhanced patient outcomes through more accessible and actionable data. Today’s greatest barriers to improved care delivery are the technological and organisational silos operating in isolation, hampering collaboration and operational…

Mac users duped with FrigidStealer posing as browser updates

Hackers are seen dropping a new macOS infoStealer, FrigidStealer, on unsuspecting systems in a web inject campaign that uses fake browser updates to lure victims. Researchers at Proofpoint reported observing two new threat actors, TA2726 and TA2727, running this campaign to steal sensitive browser data. “Proofpoint identified and named two new cybercriminal threat actors operating…

Valar Atomics comes out of stealth with $19M and a pilot reactor site

Companies developing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) have raised more than $1.5 billion in the past year, as tech companies hunger for power to train AI models and governments decide to commit to the industry. For example, X-energy raised $700 million this month, and Paris-based Newcleo raised $151 million last year, and one would be…

Genetec Hosts The Hon. Mary Ng PC MP, Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development of the Government of Canada at the Genetec Sydney Experience Centre

  COMPANY NEWS: Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), the global leader in enterprise physical security software, this week hosted The Hon. Mary Ng PC MP, the Canadian Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development at the Genetec Sydney Experience Centre. During her visit to Genetec in Sydney, the Minister participated in a live demonstration of AutoVu…

Chinese-Linked Attackers Exploit Check Point Flaw to Deploy ShadowPad and Ransomware

A previously unknown threat activity cluster targeted European organizations, particularly those in the healthcare sector, to deploy PlugX and its successor, ShadowPad, with the intrusions ultimately leading to deployment of a ransomware called NailaoLocker in some cases. The campaign, codenamed Green Nailao by Orange Cyberdefense CERT, involved the exploitation of a new-patched security flaw

PCI DSS 4.0 Mandates DMARC By 31st March 2025

The payment card industry has set a critical deadline for businesses handling cardholder data or processing payments- by March 31, 2025, DMARC implementation will be mandatory! This requirement highlights the importance of preventative measures against email fraud, domain spoofing, and phishing in the financial space. This is not an optional requirement as non-compliance may result…

Cybercriminals Use Eclipse Jarsigner to Deploy XLoader Malware via ZIP Archives

A malware campaign distributing the XLoader malware has been observed using the DLL side-loading technique by making use of a legitimate application associated with the Eclipse Foundation. “The legitimate application used in the attack, jarsigner, is a file created during the installation of the IDE package distributed by the Eclipse Foundation,” the AhnLab SEcurity Intelligence…

CyberStrong February Product Update

The team at CyberSaint is thrilled to announce the latest additions and updates to the CyberStrong solution. To start, we’re expanding Phase 1 of Asset Management with custom types and attributes. Additionally, we’ve added status updates, schedule, and pause for Continuous Control Automation (CCA) and included the ability to adjust the control weight by risk…

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