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Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider 2025-02-20 at 09:49 By Iain Thomson 2.3 TB held to ransom as biz formerly known as Virgin Care tells us it’s probing IT ‘security incident’ Exclusive  HCRG Care Group, a private health and social services provider, has seemingly fallen victim to the Medusa ransomware

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Cybersecurity needs more than strong tech, it needs strong messaging 2025-02-20 at 08:52 By While companies invest millions in cybersecurity tools and infrastructure, many overlook a critical component of defense: clear, consistent messaging that builds a security-minded culture. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive 2025-02-20 at 08:39 By Simon Sharwood Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid Big Tech’s plans to spend hundreds of billions on infrastructure during 2025 are often considered to

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France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run 2025-02-20 at 07:51 By Simon Sharwood Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance France’s Commissariat à L’énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Tuesday claimed it’s topped China’s recently-established for record maintaining fusion plasma in a tokamak, and therefore taken another

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Citrix Releases Security Fix for NetScaler Console Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 2025-02-20 at 07:21 By Citrix has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw impacting NetScaler Console (formerly NetScaler ADM) and NetScaler Agent that could lead to privilege escalation under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12284, has been given a CVSS v4 score of

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Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited Power Pages Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 2025-02-20 at 07:21 By Microsoft has released security updates to address two Critical-rated flaws impacting Bing and Power Pages, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2025-21355 (CVSS score: 8.6) – Microsoft Bing Remote Code Execution

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US Army soldier linked to Snowflake extortion rampage admits breaking the law 2025-02-20 at 05:19 By Iain Thomson That’s the way the cookie melts A US Army soldier suspected of hacking AT&T and Verizon has admitted leaking online people’s private call records.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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Trump can’t quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it 2025-02-20 at 01:48 By Tobias Mann Reported layoffs suggest R&D functions may be hobbled, fab subsidies also at risk Comment  US President Donald Trump has made it plain he’s not a fan of the $53 billion CHIPS

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Trump’s DoD CISO pick previously faced security clearance suspension 2025-02-20 at 00:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo Hey, at least Katie Arrington brings a solid resume Donald Trump’s nominee for a critical DoD cybersecurity role sports a resume that outshines many of his past picks, despite previously suspended security clearance.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to ‘a million qubits’. So far: Eight 2025-02-19 at 23:04 By Thomas Claburn Not just a matter of time but a matter of Majorana fermions, too Microsoft says it has developed a quantum-computing chip made with novel materials that is expected to enable the development of

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Check out this free automated tool that hunts for exposed AWS secrets in public repos 2025-02-19 at 22:48 By Jessica Lyons You can find out if your GitHub codebase is leaking keys … but so can miscreants A free automated tool that lets anyone scan public GitHub repositories for exposed AWS credentials has been released.…

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We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists 2025-02-19 at 21:45 By Thomas Claburn STOP AI warns of doomsday scenario, demands governments pull the plug on advanced models Feature  On Saturday at the Silverstone Cafe in San Francisco, a smattering of activists gathered to discuss plans to stop

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Want to play billionaire for a day? This app lets you rent your own armed goon squad 2025-02-19 at 20:51 By Brandon Vigliarolo Black Escalade motorcade sold separately – of course Need to turn heads and burn cash while out on the town? A new app lets you hire armed bodyguards to escort you around

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