Cyber security maturity declines among Australian government agencies in 2024, as legacy IT systems hinder progress under the Essential Eight framework.
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January Windows updates may fail if Citrix SRA is installed
Microsoft is warning that the January 2025 Windows 11 and Windows 10 cumulative updates may fail if Citrix Session Recording Agent (SRA) version 2411 is installed on the device. […]
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The Future of Cybersecurity: Global Outlook 2025 and Beyond
The cybersecurity landscape is entering an unprecedented era of complexity, with AI-driven threats, geopolitical tensions, and supply chain vulnerabilities reshaping how organizations approach digital security. This analysis explores key trends and strategic imperatives for 2025 and beyond. The post The Future of Cybersecurity: Global Outlook 2025 and Beyond appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Microsoft fixes 159 vulnerabilities in first Patch Tuesday of 2025
In its latest security update, Microsoft has addressed a total of 159 vulnerabilities, covering a broad spectrum of the tech giant’s products, including .NET, Visual Studio, Microsoft Excel, Windows components, and Azure services. The update covers several critical and high-severity flaws across various systems, impacting Windows Telephony Services, Active Directory Domain Services, Microsoft Excel and…
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Nintendo Switch 2 could be announced this week: The rumors (and facts) so far
With CES 2025 finally in the rearview, it’s time to move on to the next round of big hardware announcements. Rumors have emerged over the last few weeks, pointing to an imminent announcement for the next-generation of Nintendo’s wildly successful hybrid Switch console. In particular, word from industry stalwart Eurogamer (among others) pegs a January…
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Apple Bug Allows Root Protections Bypass Without Physical Access
Emergent macOS vulnerability lets adversaries circumvent Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) by loading third-party kernels.
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Intel spins off its corporate venture arm, Intel Capital, into a standalone fund
Intel says that it plans to spin off its corporate venture arm, Intel Capital, into a standalone fund, with Intel as an “anchor investor.” In a press release on Tuesday, Intel said that the move will “[enable] greater autonomy” and “the flexibility to attract external capital.” Intel expects Intel Capital to begin operating independently in…
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Meta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI’s GPT-4 internally, court filings reveal
Executives and researchers leading Meta’s AI efforts obsessed over beating OpenAI’s GPT-4 model while developing Llama 3, according to internal messages unsealed by a court on Tuesday in one of the company’s ongoing AI copyright cases, Kadrey v. Meta. “Honestly… Our goal needs to be GPT-4,” said Meta’s VP of Generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, in…
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Allstate car insurer sued for tracking drivers without permission
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Allstate and its data subsidiary Arity for unlawfully collecting, using, and selling driving data from over 45 million Americans. […]
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Hackers are exploiting a new Fortinet firewall bug to breach company networks
Security researchers say “tens” of Fortinet devices have been compromised so far as part of the weeks-long hacking campaign. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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FBI Wraps Up Eradication Effort of Chinese ‘PlugX’ Malware
Two hacker groups were paid to develop malware targeting victims in the US, Europe, and Asia, as well as various Chinese dissident groups.
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WP3.XYZ malware attacks add rogue admins to 5,000+ WordPress sites
A new malware campaign has compromised more than 5,000 WordPress sites to create admin accounts, install a malicious plugin, and steal data. […]
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Unsafe Deserialization Attacks Surge | December Attack Data | Contrast Security
Attacks on individual applications were down month to month in December 2024, but one of the most dangerous types of attacks was up significantly. That’s according to data Contrast Security publishes monthly about the detection and response of real-world application and application programming interface (API) attacks with Application Detection and Response (ADR). What you’re about…
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Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans
NotebookLM’s viral AI podcast hosts sounded annoyed at human callers and required “friendliness tuning,” Google says. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Flights delayed by SpaceX’s falling rocket debris
Qantas has been forced to delay several flights to South Africa due to last minute warnings about SpaceX rocket debris falling from the sky. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Google-backed Pixxel launches India’s first private satellite constellation
Pixxel, an Indian space tech startup backed by Google, has successfully launched the first three hyperspectral satellites of its commercial constellation Firefly. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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DJI Flip is a $439, fully foldable camera drone
Four short months after introducing the truly palm-size Neo, DJI is back with another pint-sized consumer drone. The Flip continues the drone giant’s interest in foldable form factors, with a quartet of propeller guards that essentially stack up, for maximum portability. The new Flip continues to blur the lines in DJI’s existing consumer portfolio, combing…
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China’s Hytera Pleads Guilty to U.S. Charge in Motorola Solutions’ Trade Secrets Theft Case
The telecommunications company could face a fine of up to $60 million for stealing walkie talkie-related trade secrets.
Global Security News
Telstra to invest A$700M in proposed global AI joint venture with Accenture
Telstra has announced a proposed AI joint venture (JV) with global consulting firm Accenture, in which Australia’s largest telco would reportedly invest A$100 million a year over seven years for a total of A$700 million.
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US govt says North Korea stole over $659 million in crypto last year
North Korean state-backed hacking groups have stolen over $659 million worth of cryptocurrency in multiple crypto-heists, according to a joint statement issued by the United States, South Korea, and Japan on Tuesday. […]
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DEF CON 32 – Pick Your Poison: Navigating A Secure Clean Energy Transition
Authors/Presenters: Emma Stewart Our sincere appreciation to DEF CON, and the Authors/Presenters 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 – Pick Your Poison: Navigating A Secure Clean Energy Transition appeared…
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OpenAI appoints BlackRock exec to its board
OpenAI has appointed an executive at investment firm BlackRock to its board of directors. Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi, a senior managing director at BlackRock and CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure investing platform, has joined OpenAI’s board, OpenAI announced on Tuesday. In a statement, OpenAI board chairman Bret Taylor said that Ogunlesi has “an exceptional…
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Substack rolls out livestreaming for all publishers
After testing live video features in the fall, newsletter platform Substack announced on Tuesday that it is now making livestreaming available to all publishers. This new feature allows creators to engage with their viewers and collaborate with other publishers. The introduction of livestreaming indicates that Substack is following in the footsteps of other platforms like…
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TikTok users’ attempted migration to Chinese app RedNote isn’t going too well
American TikTok users have been thumbing their collective noses at the U.S. government’s decision to ban TikTok by spitefully joining another Chinese social media app, Red Note (aka Xiaohongshu), sending it to the top of the U.S. App Store on Monday. Unfortunately, many of those who already made the transition have faced problems with having…
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Flashpoint Releases Guide for Surviving Ransomware Activities
Cyber threat intelligence organization Flashpoint recently released its 2025 Ransomware Survival Guide. The ebook outlines the steps enterprises can take to manage and de-escalate ransomware activities. According to Flashpoint, the guide was aimed at equipping Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) professionals, threat hunters, and security leaders with actionable knowledge and insights to more effectively anticipate, prevent,…
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Windows 10 KB5049981 update released with new BYOVD blocklist
Microsoft has released the KB5049981 cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 10 21H2, which contains an updated Kernel driver blocklist to prevent Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attacks. […]
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Microsoft January 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 8 zero-days, 159 flaws
Today is Microsoft’s January 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 159 flaws, including eight zero-day vulnerabilities, with three actively exploited in attacks. […]
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CBRE buys remainder of co-working company Industrious at an $800M valuation
Real estate giant CBRE announced Tuesday that it is acquiring the rest of co-working startup Industrious, in which it already had a sizable investment, at a valuation of over $800 million. Founded in 2013, New York-based Industrious raised a total of $522 million in funding from investors including Riverwood Capital and Fifth Wall Ventures. Its last…
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Windows 11 KB5050009 & KB5050021 cumulative updates released
Microsoft has released the Windows 11 KB5050009 and KB5050021 cumulative updates for versions 24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and issues. […]
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Biden administration opens up federal land to AI data centers
With less than a week left in office, President Joe Biden is not done leaving his mark on the AI industry. President Biden issued an executive order on Tuesday that will allow private sector AI companies to lease federal sites owned by the Department of Defense and Department of Energy in order to build AI…
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Why some former Bench customers are not happy
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at the latest with embattled fintech Bench, Robinhood’s $45 million settlement, a couple of M&A deals, some cool fundraises, and more. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The big…
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ChatGPT now lets you schedule reminders and recurring tasks
Paying users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now ask the AI assistant to schedule reminders or recurring requests. The new beta feature, called tasks, will start rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users around the globe this week. With tasks, users can set simple reminders with ChatGPT such as, “Remind me when my passport…
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Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Trimix’
via the comic humor & dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD Permalink The post Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Trimix’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Meta to cut roughly 5% of its workforce based on performance
Meta is reducing its workforce by about 5% through performance-based terminations, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The company plans to hire new people to fill the roles, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an internal memo to staff. “I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster,” Zuckerberg said in the note. “We…
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Apple joins consortium to help develop next-gen AI data center tech
Apple has joined a consortium creating next-gen technology to link together chips in AI data centers. The consortium, the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, is developing a standard called UALink, which connects the AI accelerator chips found within a growing number of server farms. As of Tuesday, Apple is a member of the consortium’s board, along…
Global Security News
Zero-Day Security Bug Likely Fueling Fortinet Firewall Attacks
An ongoing campaign targeting FortiGate devices with management interfaces exposed on the public Internet is leading to unauthorized administrative logins and configuration changes, creating new accounts, and performing SSL VPN authentication.
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A 24-year-old who exited his first company to Coinbase raises $3M for his next venture
At 24 years old, Pryce Yebesi already has one exit: selling his crypto invoicing company Utopia Labs to Coinbase for an undisclosed amount. Some founders don’t just have one company in them. On Monday, Yebesi announced the launch of his new company, Open Ledger, which embeds automated accounting software into products that enterprises and small…
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Stack to build 220 MW hyperscale data centre campus in Malaysia
Data centres specialist Stack Infrastructure, has announced its entry into Malaysia, with plans to build a new 220MW campus for hyoerscale clients in Johor Bahru, which the company says will expand its footprint to the largest market in Southeast Asia.
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Law enforcement action deletes PlugX malware from thousands of machines
U.S. and international law enforcement agencies have removed the PlugX malware from thousands of computers worldwide in a coordinated campaign to blunt the effectiveness of one of the most infamous pieces of malware used by malicious cyber actors. According to recently unsealed court documents from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Department of Justice…
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Google OAuth flaw lets attackers gain access to abandoned accounts
A weakness in Google’s OAuth “Sign in with Google” feature could enable attackers that register domains of defunct startups to access sensitive data of former employee accounts linked to various software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. […]
Global Security News
Meta to Cut 5% of Staff as Mark Zuckerberg Says He Will ‘Raise the Bar’
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the job cuts are necessary as the company builds ‘the most important technologies in the world.’
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WhatsApp is adding a way to turn selfies into stickers
WhatsApp is adding new features including creating new stickers from selfies, sharing sticker packs, and adding new camera effects. Stickers and camera effects are good engagement ploys to keep users interacting with their contacts. The chat app added the ability to create custom stickers from photos last year. Now, the company is adding an option…
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OpenAI quietly revises policy doc to remove reference to ‘politically unbiased’ AI
OpenAI has quietly removed language endorsing “politically unbiased” AI from one of its recently published policy documents. In the original draft of its “economic blueprint” for the AI industry in the U.S., OpenAI said that AI models “should aim to be politically unbiased by default.” A new draft, made available Monday, deletes that phrasing. When…
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Orange and Vodacom JV to expand coverage with new towers in Congo
Telecoms operators Orange and Vodacom have formed a joint venture to build, own, and operate solar-powered mobile base stations in underserved areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Exploits, Global Security News
Microsoft Uncovers macOS Vulnerability CVE-2024-44243 Allowing Rootkit Installation
Microsoft has shed light on a now-patched security flaw impacting Apple macOS that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed an attacker running as “root” to bypass the operating system’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) and install malicious kernel drivers by loading third-party kernel extensions. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-44243 (CVSS score: 5.5), a medium-severity bug
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KnowBe4 Research Confirms Effective Security Awareness Training Significantly Reduces Data Breaches
COMPANY NEWS New KnowBe4 white paper “Effective Security Awareness Training Really Does Reduce Breaches” finds 65% decrease in breach likelihood for organisations with robust security training programs
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Six Friends Every Security Team Needs
Around the year 1900, an author (Rudyard Kipling) wrote a poem called “The Elephant’s Child.” In it, he writes: “I keep six honest serving men They taught me all I knew Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.” Little did Kipling know that these six friends would someday…
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With $30 million in new funding, SEEQC thinks chips are key to building useful quantum computing
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have said that “very useful quantum computers” are probably still 20 years away, but his company is also hedging its bets beyond classical chips with investments and partnerships in that very space. Now one of the companies that Nvidia partners with in quantum development is announcing funding. SEEQC, a quantum…
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Data center power demand will double over the next five years
Data centers are expected to continue growing at a breakneck pace, doubling their power demand by 2029, according to a new report from JLL. The industry’s expansion, fueled by the rapid growth of AI alongside the continued expansion of cloud-based services, is testing the limits of the energy sector. Some experts think that half of…
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Beware cybersecurity tech that’s past its prime — 5 areas to check or retire
Cybersecurity leaders can choose from an ever-expanding list of digital tools to help them ward off attacks and, based on market projections, they’re implementing plenty of those options. Gartner predicts a 15% increase in cybersecurity spending for 2025, with global expenditures expected to reach $212 billion in the upcoming year. The research and consulting firm…
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Dynatrace Partners with Visa Cash App Racing Bulls (VCARB) Formula One Team as its Official Observability and Performance Analytics Technology Partner
COMPANY NEWS: Dynatrace will provide VCARB with unprecedented insights into vehicle dynamics, driver performance, and race optimization
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Aurora takes feds to court over safety rules as it nears self-driving truck launch
Aurora Innovation is taking federal safety regulators to court in a case that could have far-reaching implications for self-driving truck companies operating in a regulatory environment designed around humans. The fight centers around the rather commonplace practice of placing physical warning triangles around semi trucks stopped along highways. The court denied Aurora’s request to be…
Exploits, Global Security News
Google OAuth Vulnerability Exposes Millions via Failed Startup Domains
New research has pulled back the curtain on a “deficiency” in Google’s “Sign in with Google” authentication flow that exploits a quirk in domain ownership to gain access to sensitive data. “Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against someone purchasing a failed startup’s domain and using it to re-create email accounts for former employees,” Truffle Security…
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DOJ confirms FBI operation that mass-deleted Chinese malware from thousands of US computers
The FBI says it was authorized to mass-remove “PlugX” malware from more than 4,000 compromised machines in the United States © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Check Point Software’s 2025 Security Report Finds Alarming 44% Increase in Cyber-Attacks Amid Maturing Cyber Threat Ecosystem
COMPANY NEWS: Highlights from the 13th annual report with data from 170 countries, include an analysis on evolving cyber wars, the pervasiveness of ransomware and recommendations for CISOs
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New AI Rule Aims to Prevent Misuse of US Technology
A new Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion issued in the US strengthens security, streamlines chip sales and prevents misuse of AI technology
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FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from over 4,000 US computers
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the FBI has deleted Chinese PlugX malware from over 4,200 computers in networks across the United States. […]
Asia Pacific, Data and Information Security, Government, Security, Security Practices, Global Security News
Biden White House to go all out in final, sweeping cybersecurity order
The Biden administration’s last cybersecurity action is a comprehensive and ambitious 50-page executive order (EO) entitled “Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity” that it plans to issue before the end of the week. According to the first section of the order, a draft copy of which was obtained by CSO, its purpose is…
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EV startup Harbinger’s obsession with simplicity fuels $100M Series B
It’s not an easy time to raise money for an electric vehicle startup, especially given how many have failed or are close to failing. But Los Angeles-based Harbinger has pulled it off by taking an hyper-focused approach to electrifying commercial trucking. The reward is a $100 million Series B, co-led by early Tesla investor Capricorn…
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Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps
Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers an open source X alternative Mastodon, a YouTube competitor PeerTube, and other decentralized social apps, including now Meta’s Threads and Flipboard (plus its newer app, Surf), that are part of a growing…
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DEF CON 32 – SBOMs the Hard Way: Hacking Bob the Minion
Authors/Presenters: Larry Pesce Our sincere appreciation to DEF CON, and the Authors/Presenters 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 – SBOMs the Hard Way: Hacking Bob the Minion appeared first…
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Getac’s next generation ZX10 is the lightest 10-inch fully rugged tablet currently available on the market
COMPANY NEWS: New ZX10 boasts powerful artificial intelligence-ready performance, intuitive Android functionality, and fully rugged reliability, making it ideally suited to challenging field-based tasks.
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Hackers use FastHTTP in new high-speed Microsoft 365 password attacks
Threat actors are utilizing the FastHTTP Go library to launch high-speed brute-force password attacks targeting Microsoft 365 accounts globally. […]
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Microsoft Sues Group for Creating Tools to Bypass Azure AI Security
Microsoft is suing 10 unknown people involved in a sophisticated scheme to exploit users credentials to access the vendor’s Azure OpenAI AI services, bypass security guardrails, and post harmful images using its cloud systems. The post Microsoft Sues Group for Creating Tools to Bypass Azure AI Security appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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How to streamline business travel with artificial intelligence-powered expense management
GUEST OPINION: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming many aspects of business operations, and one area where it is making a significant impact is expense management for business travel.
Global IT News, Global Security News
Brad Perriott Joins SentinelOne as Area Vice President, Australia and New Zealand
SentinelOne (NYSE: S), a global leader in AI-powered security, today announced that Brad Perriott has joined its team as Area Vice President, Australia and New Zealand. In this role, the technology-industry veteran will lead a regional team of sales representatives and spearhead the company’s efforts to expand and accelerate adoption of SentinelOne’s market-leading cybersecurity platform amongst…
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Why unified secure access service edge is the next critical evolution in secure network architecture
GUEST OPINION: Cyber threats are continuously evolving as cybercrimes become increasingly sophisticated, forcing enterprises to rethink their approach to network security.
Apps, Global IT News, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Social, TikTok, TikTok Ban
Massachusetts senator seeks to extend deadline for TikTok ban
Senatory Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is planning to introduce legislation to extend the TikTok ban deadline by 270 days. TikTok has warned of a looming shutdown in just five days, but the new legislation, officially called the Extend the TikTok Deadline Act, would give TikTok more time to divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, if approved by Congress. TikTok…
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Fortinet warns of auth bypass zero-day exploited to hijack firewalls
Attackers are exploiting a new authentication bypass zero-day vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy to hijack Fortinet firewalls and breach enterprise networks. […]
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The AI Fix #33: AI’s deliberate deceptions, and Elon’s “unhinged” mode
In episode 33 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a robot fall over, ChatGPT demonstrates that it can’t draw a watch face but it can fire a gun, a man without a traffic cone gets trapped in his Waymo taxi, Graham discovers what social robots are, and both hosts watch horrified as somebody rips…
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OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why
Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — even when asked a question in English. Given a problem to sort out — e.g. “How many R’s are in the word ‘strawberry?’” — o1…
Global Security News
Browser-Based Cyber-Threats Surge as Email Malware Declines
Browser-based cyber-threats surged in 2024, with credential abuse and infostealers on the rise
Global Security News
New Startups Focus on Deepfakes, Data-in-Motion & Model Security
In times of unprecedented change, innovative mindsets and attentiveness of startup culture make for a community everyone can leverage to understand the world and guard against its dangers.
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Boardy AI raises $8M seed round months after closing pre-seed
Months after announcing a $3 million pre-seed, the AI networking startup Boardy is back with an $8 million seed announcement led by Creandum. The company connects users with other people when they call an AI agent who chats with them for a bit and then connects them with others it thinks they ought to know.…
Apps, Global IT News, Global Security News, Paul English, Social
Kayak founder returns with Steppin, an app that locks you out of social media until you go for a walk
App stores are filled with different services that are designed to help you cut down on your screen time and count your steps. A new iOS app called Steppin combines these two ideas to help users do both at the same time to bridge the gap between physical and mental health. Steppin blocks your social…
Global Security News
Amazon Web Services Launches Infrastructure Region in Mexico
The cloud business of Amazon.com has launched an infrastructure cloud region in Mexico and plans to invest $5 billion in the country over the next 15 years.
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Thoras helps companies reach reliability without overspending on cloud costs
For years, twin sisters Nilo Rahmani and Jen Rahmani swapped stories — and commiserated — over the pain points they were facing in their respective engineering jobs. Nilo told TechCrunch that a frequent topic of conversation was about frustrations over the reliability platforms they were using at work. When they noticed the reliability landscape starting…
AI, Enterprise, Global IT News, Global Security News
AWS pledges to spend $5B in Mexico, launches new Mexico server region
In an announcement Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, said it plans to invest $5 billion in Mexico over the next 15 years as a part of a “long-term commitment” in the region. A portion of that investment is a new server region in Mexico launching today, AWS Mexico, that will allow…
Global Security News, Microsoft
Microsoft 365 apps crash on Windows Server after Office update
Microsoft says a known issue is causing Classic Outlook and Microsoft 365 applications to crash on Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019 systems. […]
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Syncro to Bring IT Management Platform to Internal IT Teams
Syncro, a provider of managed service provider (MSP) solutions, has launched a version of its IT management platform designed specifically for internal IT departments. “While our platform was originally developed for MSPs, we have seen increasing demand from internal IT departments as their operational needs are very similar,” said Michael George, CEO of Syncro. “In…
Artificial Intelligence, Global Security News
Phishing-Klickrate massiv gestiegen
Im Vergleich zum Vorjahr hat die Phishing-Klickrate im Jahr 2024 stark zugenommen. janews – Shutterstock.com Seit Jahren investieren Unternehmen in Awareness-Programme, um ihre Mitarbeiter darin zu schulen, Phishing-Versuche zu erkennen und zu melden. Laut einem Bericht von Netskope hat sich jedoch die Phishing-Klickrate im Jahr 2024 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr verdreifacht. Der Sicherheitsanbieter stellte auf…
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Powerset gives founders $1 million to invest in other startups
Powerset, founded in late 2022, is an investment program with a simple hypothesis: what if the best investors aren’t venture capitalists but other founders, scribbling off checks in between late night coding sessions and board meetings? © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Commvault Adds Ability to Recover Entire Instances of Active Directory
Commvault today added an ability to automatically recover the instances of Microsoft Active Directory (AD) that have become primary targets of cybersecurity attacks. The post Commvault Adds Ability to Recover Entire Instances of Active Directory appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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North Korea stole over $659M in crypto heists during 2024, deploys fake job seekers
A joint international statement provides the first official confirmation that North Korea was behind the $235M hack of WazirX, India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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UK plans to ban public sector organizations from paying ransomware hackers
The Home Office has proposed a ‘targeted ban’ on ransom payments following a wave a cyberattacks targeting the UK © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Windscribe VPN Review (2025): Features, Pricing, and Security
We evaluate the features, performance, security, and pricing of Windscribe VPN to help you determine if it’s a reliable VPN service for your needs.
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Critical Infrastructure Seeing Benefits of Government Program, CISA Says
CISA in two years has seen the number of critical infrastructure organizations signing up for its CPG services double, which has improved the overall security in most sectors, but more needs to be done to strengthen what has become a target adversarial state-sponsored threat groups. The post Critical Infrastructure Seeing Benefits of Government Program, CISA…
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Manchester Law Firm Leads 15,000 to Sue Google and Microsoft over AI Data
Barings Law is planning to sue the two tech giants over numerous alleged violations of data misuse, including for AI training
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Venture funding remains stable in France thanks to AI startups
Alex Dewez, a partner at 20VC, just released its highly anticipated State of the French tech ecosystem report. This is a nice followup to Atomico’s State of European Tech report, with a more granular view on French startups in particular. As a reminder, the bottom line of Atomico’s report is that European startups raised $45…
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BSIMM15: New focus on securing AI and the software supply chain
Explore key trends in the BSIMM15 report, such as securing AI and the software supply chain, plus recommendations for enhancing your software security program. The post BSIMM15: New focus on securing AI and the software supply chain appeared first on Blog. The post BSIMM15: New focus on securing AI and the software supply chain appeared…
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UK Considers Ban on Ransomware Payments by Public Bodies
A UK government consultation has proposed banning public sector and critical infrastructure organizations from making ransomware payments to disincentivize attackers from targeting these services
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UK’s CMA slaps Google Search and its 90%+ market share with an antitrust investigation
The Competition and Markets Authority — the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog — is wasting no time in lodging its first official investigation of 2025 under its new rules that came into effect this month. It’s looking into the market dominance of Google in Search, including the new work it’s doing in AI search as well as…
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Macquarie to Invest Up to $5 Billion in Applied Digital AI Data Centers
The deal follows strong investor interest in businesses connected to the AI boom.
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Government Sites Across the U.S. Are Awash in Hardcore Porn
A webpage on the State of Louisiana’s official site appears to be advertising “animal porn Porn Videos.” The online home of the Federal Judicial Center offers “free how to sex videos,” with a closed captioning feature. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s SimpleReport, identified as an “official website of the United States government” in…
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2025 Prediction 3: Digital Security Will Expand Beyond Privacy Concerns To Include Holistic, Integrated Cyber and Physical Protection
On January 7, we published a press release to share our five predictions for cybersecurity in 2025. Over the next few weeks, we’ll publish a blog series that provides additional commentary on each prediction. This is the second blog in the series. Check out the first and second blogs here. Prediction Key Takeaways: We…
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Google Comes Under U.K. Investigation Over Search Services
It will be the first investigation under a new digital markets competition regime that could force the company to change its conduct.
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Backbase Unveils Six Bold Predictions To Drive $1 trillion+ Industry Transformation in 2025
GUEST OPINION: Future-focused C-suite banking forecasts: major shifts in customer experience, revenue models, and tech infrastructure
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Bioptimus raises $41M to develop a ‘GPT for biology’
A fledgling French AI startup has raised $41 million to develop a foundational AI model for biology. Just as OpenAI’s ChatGPT has taken the world by storm for a super-smart generative AI tool capable of natural language conversation in text form, Bioptimus is taking that concept but training its model specifically for downstream biological applications…
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Remediation Times Drop Sharply as Cyber Hygiene Take Up Surges
CISA claims US critical infrastructure providers are improving cyber hygiene and remediation activities
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4 Reasons Your SaaS Attack Surface Can No Longer be Ignored
What do identity risks, data security risks and third-party risks all have in common? They are all made much worse by SaaS sprawl. Every new SaaS account adds a new identity to secure, a new place where sensitive data can end up, and a new source of third party risk. Learn how you can protect…