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Lookout Mobile Intelligence APIs identifies cross-platform attacks

Lookout Mobile Intelligence APIs identifies cross-platform attacks 2025-01-22 at 15:00 By Industry News Lookout announced their new Lookout Mobile Intelligence Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), exponentially expanding the scope of visibility into enterprise mobile security data. Lookout Mobile Intelligence APIs integrate critical security data from mobile devices into the solutions already in use by security teams […]

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48,000+ internet-facing Fortinet firewalls still open to attack

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48,000+ internet-facing Fortinet firewalls still open to attack 2025-01-22 at 14:34 By Zeljka Zorz Despite last week’s confirmation of and warnings about long-standing exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, a critical vulnerability affecting Fortinet Fortigate firewalls, too many vulnerable devices are still accessible from the Internet and open to attack: over 48,000, according to data from the Shadowserver

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DataDome DDoS Protect detects application layer-based threats

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DataDome DDoS Protect detects application layer-based threats 2025-01-22 at 14:34 By Industry News DataDome unveiled DDoS Protect, a cloud-based service designed to block distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack traffic at the edge before it overwhelms an organization’s infrastructure. DDoS Protect provides always-on, full-stack protection that detects and mitigates application layer-based threats, including evasive and short-lived Layer

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Former Amazon exec appointed as chair of UK’s competition watchdog

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Former Amazon exec appointed as chair of UK’s competition watchdog 2025-01-22 at 14:19 By Richard Speed Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being ‘sufficiently focused on growth’ The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has a new chair after the sudden departure of the previous incumbent.… This article is an excerpt from

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Discover Hidden Browsing Threats: Free Risk Assessment for GenAI, Identity, Web, and SaaS Risks

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Discover Hidden Browsing Threats: Free Risk Assessment for GenAI, Identity, Web, and SaaS Risks 2025-01-22 at 13:04 By As GenAI tools and SaaS platforms become a staple component in the employee toolkit, the risks associated with data exposure, identity vulnerabilities, and unmonitored browsing behavior have skyrocketed. Forward-thinking security teams are looking for security controls and

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President Trump Pardons Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison

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President Trump Pardons Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison 2025-01-22 at 13:04 By U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a “full and unconditional pardon” to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous Silk Road drug marketplace, after spending 11 years behind bars. “I just called the mother of Ross William

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Australian Cyber Security Centre Targets Bulletproof Hosting Providers to Disrupt Cybercrime Networks

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Australian Cyber Security Centre Targets Bulletproof Hosting Providers to Disrupt Cybercrime Networks 2025-01-22 at 12:48 By daksh sharma Overview The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued a detailed warning regarding Bulletproof Hosting Providers (BPH). These illicit infrastructure services play a critical role in supporting cybercrime, allowing malicious actors to conduct their operations while remaining

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Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom

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Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom 2025-01-22 at 12:23 By Lindsay Clark The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner Tech analysts have forecast 9.8 percent year-over-year growth in worldwide IT spending in 2025, reaching $5.61 trillion and driven by continuing AI investments, despite “moonshot” projects seeing a high

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Xona Platform simplifies user access deployment

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Xona Platform simplifies user access deployment 2025-01-22 at 11:49 By Industry News Xona Systems launched new Xona Platform. Designed to provide simple user access without allowing insecure user endpoints from connecting to critical assets, the platform is redefining how industries such as utilities, oil & gas, and manufacturing approach secure access for remote workers, 3rd

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Ransomware scum make it personal for Reg readers by impersonating tech support

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Ransomware scum make it personal for Reg readers by impersonating tech support 2025-01-22 at 11:33 By Jessica Lyons That invitation to a Teams call on which IT promises to mop up a spamstorm may not be what it seems Two ransomware campaigns are abusing Microsoft Teams to infect organizations and steal data, and the crooks

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PlushDaemon APT Targets South Korean VPN Provider in Supply Chain Attack

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PlushDaemon APT Targets South Korean VPN Provider in Supply Chain Attack 2025-01-22 at 11:17 By A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network (VPN) provider in 2023, according to new findings from ESET. “The attackers replaced the

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EnGenius Cloud Managed ESG320 VPN Router improves security and network performance

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EnGenius Cloud Managed ESG320 VPN Router improves security and network performance 2025-01-22 at 11:03 By Industry News EnGenius released EnGenius Cloud Managed ESG320 VPN Router. Designed to meet the growing demands of small businesses, the ESG320 delivers enterprise-grade performance, security, and simplified cloud-based management, making it the ideal choice for companies looking to optimize their network infrastructure,

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China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run

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China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run 2025-01-22 at 10:42 By Simon Sharwood 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion reactor that

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Inversion6 launches service to help companies combat cyber threats

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Inversion6 launches service to help companies combat cyber threats 2025-01-22 at 10:42 By Industry News Inversion6 launched its new Incident Response (IR) Service, a comprehensive offering to help organizations effectively manage, mitigate and recover from cybersecurity incidents. “Our new service empowers businesses to respond to incidents with speed and precision, safeguarding their operations and reputation,”

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Cyble Finds Thousands of Security Vendor Credentials on Dark Web

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Cyble Finds Thousands of Security Vendor Credentials on Dark Web 2025-01-22 at 10:23 By Paul Shread Overview Account credentials from some of the largest cybersecurity vendors can be found on the dark web, a result of the growing problem of infostealers, according to an analysis of Cyble threat intelligence data. The credentials – available for

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Google DeepMind CEO says 2025’s the year we start popping pills AI helped invent

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Google DeepMind CEO says 2025’s the year we start popping pills AI helped invent 2025-01-22 at 09:41 By Tobias Mann Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon Clinical trials of the first drugs designed with the help of artificial intelligence could commence this year, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis suggested Tuesday.…

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Oracle Releases January 2025 Patch to Address 318 Flaws Across Major Products

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Oracle Releases January 2025 Patch to Address 318 Flaws Across Major Products 2025-01-22 at 09:41 By Oracle is urging customers to apply its January 2025 Critical Patch Update (CPU) to address 318 new security vulnerabilities spanning its products and services. The most severe of the flaws is a bug in the Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle

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Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3

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Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3 2025-01-22 at 09:22 By Tobias Mann Plus: Google stuffs Gemini into Workspace, with a hidden off switch? Ready or not, generative AI assistants and productivity aids are getting harder to avoid with a growing number of software vendors enabling them by default.…

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Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Device

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Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Device 2025-01-22 at 09:22 By Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever attack to be reported to date. The UDP protocol-based attack took place on

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China-aligned PlushDaemon APT compromises supply chain of Korean VPN

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China-aligned PlushDaemon APT compromises supply chain of Korean VPN 2025-01-22 at 08:04 By Help Net Security ESET researchers have uncovered a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean VPN provider, carried out by PlushDaemon, a newly identified China-aligned APT group. In this cyberespionage campaign, the attackers compromised the legitimate installer, replacing it with a malicious

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