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Google parent to buy cybersecurity startup Wiz for whopping $32B 2025-03-18 at 18:46 By Reuters The deal is Google’s biggest deal ever and is expected to bolster its cloud business. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech’s feudal lords 2025-03-18 at 18:33 By Richard Speed Tall order for tiny marketshare techies but ‘This is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,’ says CEO A new, speedier browser has arrived in the form of Vivaldi 7.2, giving its CEO the opportunity to protest

$20B loss estimated from potential March Madness hacks 2025-03-18 at 18:19 By With the rise of AI, the potential for monetary losses during March Madness is increased. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

New ‘Rules File Backdoor’ Attack Lets Hackers Inject Malicious Code via AI Code Editors 2025-03-18 at 18:18 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new supply chain attack vector dubbed Rules File Backdoor that affects artificial intelligence (AI)-powered code editors like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, causing them to inject malicious code. “This technique enables

Microsoft isn’t fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying 2025-03-18 at 17:20 By Iain Thomson ‘Only’ a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture An exploitation avenue found by Trend Micro has been used in an eight-year-long spying campaign, but there’s no sign of a fix from Microsoft,

Swyftx acquires New Zealand’s Easy Crypto, citing Trump tailwind 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Australian crypto broker Swyftx is set to acquire New Zealand crypto exchange Easy Crypto, with one of the CEOs nodding at positive crypto policy changes in the United States.  Swyftx CEO Jason Titman said in a March 19

Eliminating archaic payments systems with stablecoins 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By Cointelegraph by Simon McLoughlin Opinion by: Simon McLoughlin, CEO at Uphold 2021 witnessed a fintech investment boom, with startups raising approximately $229 billion globally. Higher interest rates and tighter economic circumstances have since tempered that exuberance, but funds continue to pile into the sector. Indeed,

ARK Invest joins $403M raise for AI robotics firm Apptronik 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Cryptocurrency-friendly investment firm ARK Invest has joined a massive Series A funding round for Apptronik, a Texas-based firm building humanoid robots. Apptronik, on March 18, announced the successful close of an oversubscribed $403M Series A funding round, adding another

Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by 11 State-Sponsored Threat Groups Since 2017 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By An unpatched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows has been exploited by 11 state-sponsored groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia as part of data theft, espionage, and financially motivated campaigns that date back to 2017. The zero-day vulnerability,

Google Acquires Wiz for $32 Billion in Its Biggest Deal Ever to Boost Cloud Security 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By Google is making the biggest ever acquisition in its history by purchasing cloud security company Wiz in an all-cash deal worth $32 billion. “This acquisition represents an investment by Google Cloud to accelerate two large and

New Critical AMI BMC Vulnerability Enables Remote Server Takeover and Bricking 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in AMI’s MegaRAC Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and carry out post-exploitation actions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-54085, carries a CVSS v4 score of 10.0,

How to Improve Okta Security in Four Steps 2025-03-18 at 17:06 By While Okta provides robust native security features, configuration drift, identity sprawl, and misconfigurations can provide opportunities for attackers to find their way in. This article covers four key ways to proactively secure Okta as part of your identity security efforts. Okta serves as

Oracle JDK 24 appears in rare alignment of version and feature count 2025-03-18 at 16:48 By Thomas Claburn The 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals in Java 24 represent a stochastic sign Oracle JDK 24 debuted on Tuesday with 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals, or JEPs as they’re known in the Java programming community.… This article is an