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  • Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return

    Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return 2025-03-12 at 13:54 By Richard Speed Agency willing to take huge risks with human exploration, but not willing to do it for some dirt? Rocket Lab has been on a roll lately, with multiple Electron launches, plans for an ocean platform for its Neutron rocket,…

  • PowerSchool Portal Compromised Months Before Massive Data Breach

    PowerSchool Portal Compromised Months Before Massive Data Breach 2025-03-12 at 13:53 By Ionut Arghire Hackers used compromised credentials to access PowerSchool’s PowerSource portal months before the December 2024 data breach. The post PowerSchool Portal Compromised Months Before Massive Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React…

  • NIST selects HQC as backup algorithm for post-quantum encryption

    NIST selects HQC as backup algorithm for post-quantum encryption 2025-03-12 at 13:32 By Help Net Security Last year, NIST standardized a set of encryption algorithms that can keep data secure from a cyberattack by a future quantum computer. Now, NIST has selected a backup algorithm that can provide a second line of defense for the…

  • Webinar Today: Protecting Executives and Enterprises from Digital, Narrative and Physical Attacks

    Webinar Today: Protecting Executives and Enterprises from Digital, Narrative and Physical Attacks 2025-03-12 at 13:32 By SecurityWeek News How hyper agenda-driven threat actors, cybercriminals, and nation-states integrate digital, narrative, and physical attacks to target organizations through their executives. The post Webinar Today: Protecting Executives and Enterprises from Digital, Narrative and Physical Attacks appeared first on…

  • Pentesters: Is AI Coming for Your Role?

    Pentesters: Is AI Coming for Your Role? 2025-03-12 at 13:32 By We’ve been hearing the same story for years: AI is coming for your job. In fact, in 2017, McKinsey printed a report, Jobs Lost, Jobs Gained: Workforce Transitions in a Time of Automation, predicting that by 2030, 375 million workers would need to find…

  • Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it’s giving vaporware vibes

    Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it’s giving vaporware vibes 2025-03-12 at 13:17 By Liam Proven Don’t, don’t, DON’T believe the hype The developer of Free95 says it will be a free Windows 95-compatible OS, but we suspect an elaborate prank. At best, maybe an unknowing one.… This article is an…

  • US Hasn’t Determined Who Was Behind Cyberattack That Caused Outage on Musk’s X

    US Hasn’t Determined Who Was Behind Cyberattack That Caused Outage on Musk’s X 2025-03-12 at 13:02 By Associated Press US officials have not determined who was behind an apparent cyberattack on the social media site X that limited access to the platform for thousands of users. The post US Hasn’t Determined Who Was Behind Cyberattack…

  • UK must pay cyber pros more than its Prime Minister, top civil servant says

    UK must pay cyber pros more than its Prime Minister, top civil servant says 2025-03-12 at 12:30 By Connor Jones Leaders call for fewer contractors and more top talent installed across government Senior officials in the UK’s civil service understand that future cyber hires in Whitehall will need to be paid a salary higher than…

  • URGENT: Microsoft Patches 57 Security Flaws, Including 6 Actively Exploited Zero-Days

    URGENT: Microsoft Patches 57 Security Flaws, Including 6 Actively Exploited Zero-Days 2025-03-12 at 12:30 By Microsoft on Tuesday released security updates to address 57 security vulnerabilities in its software, including a whopping six zero-days that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 56 flaws, six are rated Critical, 50 are rated…

  • ICS Patch Tuesday: Advisories Published by CISA, Schneider Electric, Siemens 

    ICS Patch Tuesday: Advisories Published by CISA, Schneider Electric, Siemens  2025-03-12 at 12:05 By Eduard Kovacs Industrial giants Siemens and Schneider Electric have released March 2025 Patch Tuesday ICS security advisories. The post ICS Patch Tuesday: Advisories Published by CISA, Schneider Electric, Siemens  appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View…

  • MariaDB reboots DBaaS plans with open source at the core

    MariaDB reboots DBaaS plans with open source at the core 2025-03-12 at 11:47 By Lindsay Clark Five years after it launched its first database service, the MySQL fork is trying again MariaDB says it is building a database-as-a-service based on open source principles after offloading its old DBaaS before going into private ownership.… This article…

  • Musk Blames Ukraine For Attack That Took X Down

    Musk Blames Ukraine For Attack That Took X Down 2025-03-12 at 11:12 View original post at Safety Detectives Social media platform X went down several times on Monday following what owner Elon Musk described as a “massive cyberattack” that may have originated from Ukraine. “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk said…

  • Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft’s built for Windows 10 users

    Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft’s built for Windows 10 users 2025-03-12 at 10:33 By Mark Pesce Vendors just don’t want machines to live double lives Column  My decade-old and very well-travelled 13″ MacBook Pro finally died, and I hoped my new-ish M2 iPad Pro could replace it.… This article is…

  • Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labelled ‘unreliable’ and ‘essentially fraudulent’

    Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labelled ‘unreliable’ and ‘essentially fraudulent’ 2025-03-12 at 09:47 By Thomas Claburn Redmond insists it’s got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon Microsoft’s claim of having made quantum computing breakthroughs has attracted strong criticism from scientists, but the software giant says it’s work is sound – and…

  • Bitcoin high-entry buyers are driving sell pressure, price may ‘floor’ at $70K

    Bitcoin high-entry buyers are driving sell pressure, price may ‘floor’ at $70K 2025-03-12 at 08:04 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Bitcoin buyers who purchased around when it hit a $109,000 all-time peak in January are now panic-selling as the cryptocurrency declines, says onchain analytics firm Glassnode, which isn’t ruling out that Bitcoin could slide to…

  • Luxury fashion giant LVMH sued over NFT patent tech for watches

    Luxury fashion giant LVMH sued over NFT patent tech for watches 2025-03-12 at 08:04 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young A company selling smartwatch face designs through non-fungible tokens has sued LVMH, accusing the luxury fashion conglomerate of patent infringement. In a March 10 complaint filed to a Texas federal court, Watch Skins Corporation alleged that…

  • Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital

    Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital 2025-03-12 at 08:04 By Simon Sharwood Skip the schnitzel with gravy and chips for lunch – this is an experimental device for transplant candidates Australian company BiVACOR has revealed a patient implanted with its artificial heart survived for 100 days – and is still with…

  • NetBird: Open-source network security

    NetBird: Open-source network security 2025-03-12 at 08:03 By Help Net Security NetBird is an open-source solution that integrates a configuration-free peer-to-peer private network with centralized access control, providing a single platform to build secure private networks for your organization or home. NetBird features NetBird creates a WireGuard-based overlay network that automatically connects your machines over…

  • Burnout in cybersecurity: How CISOs can protect their teams (and themselves)

    Burnout in cybersecurity: How CISOs can protect their teams (and themselves) 2025-03-12 at 07:37 By Mirko Zorz Cybersecurity is a high-stakes, high-pressure field in which CISOs and their teams constantly battle threats, compliance requirements, and business expectations. The demand for 24/7 vigilance, sophisticated attacks, and a shortage of skilled professionals have led to a burnout…

  • SEC delays decision on XRP, Solana, Litecoin, Dogecoin ETFs

    SEC delays decision on XRP, Solana, Litecoin, Dogecoin ETFs 2025-03-12 at 07:06 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte The US Securities and Exchange Commission has delayed its decision to approve several XRP, Solana, Litecoin and Dogecoin exchange-traded funds. In a slew of filings on March 11, the agency said it has “designated a longer period”  to…

  • Bitcoin jumps 7% despite metrics flashing ‘bearish territory’

    Bitcoin jumps 7% despite metrics flashing ‘bearish territory’ 2025-03-12 at 07:06 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Bitcoin has clocked a 7% gain over the past 24 hours despite all of its valuation metrics leaning bearish and US demand recently waning off. “All Bitcoin valuation metrics indicate that we are in bearish territory,” onchain analytics platform…

  • US House follows Senate in passing resolution to kill IRS DeFi broker rule

    US House follows Senate in passing resolution to kill IRS DeFi broker rule 2025-03-12 at 07:06 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young The US House of Representatives has voted in favor of nullifying a rule that would have required decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to report to the Internal Revenue Service. On March 11, the House of…

  • Defending against EDR bypass attacks

    Defending against EDR bypass attacks 2025-03-12 at 07:06 By Help Net Security EDR bypass and killer attacks are surging, yet many organizations continue to overlook this threat while they have become over-reliant on this security tool – particularly when preventing ransomware. In this Help Net Security video, John Dwyer, Director of Security Research at Binary…

  • Cyber experts discuss possible cyberattack against X

    Cyber experts discuss possible cyberattack against X 2025-03-12 at 07:06 By X experienced a cyberattack that caused widespread technical issues across the network.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

  • Apple Releases Patch for WebKit Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in Targeted Attacks

    Apple Releases Patch for WebKit Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in Targeted Attacks 2025-03-12 at 07:06 By Apple on Tuesday released a security update to address a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in “extremely sophisticated” attacks. The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-24201 and is rooted in the WebKit web browser engine…

  • Lone Bitcoin miner wins block using tiny, cheap rig — ‘1 in a million chance’

    Lone Bitcoin miner wins block using tiny, cheap rig — ‘1 in a million chance’ 2025-03-12 at 06:06 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea A solo Bitcoin miner using a relatively cheap, pocket-sized crypto mining rig has solved one of the blockchain’s blocks and earned the full $263,000 reward. The miner became the 297th solo miner…

  • Bored Locks with Visual Status Indicators: Elevating Security and Privacy in 7 Key Everyday Spaces

    Bored Locks with Visual Status Indicators: Elevating Security and Privacy in 7 Key Everyday Spaces 2025-03-12 at 05:24 By Bored locks with visual status indicators elevate security and privacy in everyday spaces. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

  • Starknet to settle on Bitcoin and Ethereum to unify the chains

    Starknet to settle on Bitcoin and Ethereum to unify the chains 2025-03-12 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Ethereum layer 2 Starknet is laying the groundwork to settle on Bitcoin and Ethereum to unify the two largest blockchains on a single layer. The Starknet Foundation said in its March 11 Bitcoin roadmap that it’s…

  • Senator Lummis’ new BITCOIN Act allows US reserve to exceed 1M Bitcoin

    Senator Lummis’ new BITCOIN Act allows US reserve to exceed 1M Bitcoin 2025-03-12 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng US Senator Cynthia Lummis’ newly reintroduced BITCOIN Act will allow the government to potentially hold more than 1 million Bitcoin as part of its newly established reserve. The bill, first introduced in July, directs the…

  • Are Threat Groups Belsen and ZeroSevenGroup Related?

    Are Threat Groups Belsen and ZeroSevenGroup Related? 2025-03-12 at 04:15 By Kevin Townsend Kela admits that its evidence for a connection between Belsen and ZeroSevenGroup is largely circumstantial, primarily based on styles. The post Are Threat Groups Belsen and ZeroSevenGroup Related? appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source…

  • CISA worker says 100-strong Red Team fired after DOGE cancelled contract

    CISA worker says 100-strong Red Team fired after DOGE cancelled contract 2025-03-12 at 04:01 By Iain Thomson Election infosec advisory agency also shuttered A penetration tester who worked at the US govt’s CISA claims his 100-strong team was dismissed after Elon Musk’s Trump-blessed DOGE unit cancelled a contract – and that more staff at the…

  • Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero day fixes, or six critical flaws

    Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero day fixes, or six critical flaws 2025-03-12 at 03:33 By Iain Thomson Microsoft tackles 50-plus security blunders, Adobe splats 3D bugs, and Apple deals with a doozy Patch Tuesday  Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday bundle has appeared, with a dirty dozen flaws competing for your urgent attention…

  • Elon Musk launches appeal to restore $56B Tesla payday after ‘common sense’ defied

    Elon Musk launches appeal to restore $56B Tesla payday after ‘common sense’ defied 2025-03-12 at 01:47 By Reuters The appeal comes as he is dedicating time to President Trump’s government efficiency effort, known as DOGE, which has sparked demonstrations outside Tesla dealerships. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View…

  • Cboe seeks to add staking to Fidelity’s Ether ETF

    Cboe seeks to add staking to Fidelity’s Ether ETF 2025-03-11 at 23:02 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Securities exchange Cboe BZX is seeking permission from US regulators to incorporate staking into Fidelity’s Ether exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to a March 11 filing.  The filing marks Cboe’s latest attempt to support staking for the Ether (ETH)…

  • Texas lawmaker seeks to cap state’s proposed BTC purchases to $250M

    Texas lawmaker seeks to cap state’s proposed BTC purchases to $250M 2025-03-11 at 23:02 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright A member of the Texas legislature has proposed a bill that could limit the amount local and state authorities invest in cryptocurrency as a reserve asset. In a bill filed on March 10, Texas Representative Ron…

  • Microsoft adds another Copilot hotkey – this time for AI voice chat

    Microsoft adds another Copilot hotkey – this time for AI voice chat 2025-03-11 at 23:02 By Richard Speed Hold Alt + Spacebar for two seconds, and Clippy 2.0 is all ears Microsoft has added yet another Copilot tweak for Windows Insiders. Hold down Alt + Spacebar for two seconds, and the AI assistant will pop…

  • EU watchdogs scrutinizing OKX over $100M in Bybit laundered funds: Report

    EU watchdogs scrutinizing OKX over $100M in Bybit laundered funds: Report 2025-03-11 at 22:04 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino European Union regulators are reportedly looking into a service offered by crypto exchange OKX that may have played a role in the laundering of $100 million in funds from the Bybit hack, according to Bloomberg. A…

  • Bitwise launches Bitcoin corporate treasury ETF

    Bitwise launches Bitcoin corporate treasury ETF 2025-03-11 at 22:04 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Bitwise has launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) holding stocks of companies with large Bitcoin (BTC) treasuries, the asset manager said on March 11.  The Bitwise Bitcoin Standard Corporations ETF (OWNB) “seeks to track the Bitwise Bitcoin Standard Corporations Index, a new…

  • Is Your Organization’s Cloud Environment as Secure as You Think? Trustwave Can Help

    Is Your Organization’s Cloud Environment as Secure as You Think? Trustwave Can Help 2025-03-11 at 22:04 By Organizations today face a growing volume of data and alerts while dealing with tight budgets and vulnerable legacy systems. Which is why they need the security partners with the right tools that can help them make the correct…

  • Energy trio wants to pipe gas from coal mines to keep datacenter lights on

    Energy trio wants to pipe gas from coal mines to keep datacenter lights on 2025-03-11 at 21:41 By Dan Robinson Nothing says ‘sustainable AI’ like the burps of Appalachian industry Three companies in the US are teaming up to address the burgeoning energy needs of datacenters by using coal mine methane piped to on-site fuel…

  • Ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg ‘lied’ about nearly boarding 2013 flight that crash-landed in San Francisco: book

    Ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg ‘lied’ about nearly boarding 2013 flight that crash-landed in San Francisco: book 2025-03-11 at 21:17 By Ariel Zilber Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg allegedly fabricated a claim she was planning to take an Asiana flight that ended up crash-landing in San Francisco. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News…

  • Apple Ships iOS 18.3.2 to Fix Already-Exploited WebKit Flaw

    Apple Ships iOS 18.3.2 to Fix Already-Exploited WebKit Flaw 2025-03-11 at 21:16 By Ryan Naraine Apple warns that the WebKIt bug “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.” The post Apple Ships iOS 18.3.2 to Fix Already-Exploited WebKit Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from…

  • Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches 57 Flaws, Flags Six Active Zero-Days 

    Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches 57 Flaws, Flags Six Active Zero-Days  2025-03-11 at 21:03 By Ryan Naraine Redmond ships major security updates with warnings that a half-dozen Windows vulnerabilities have already been exploited in the wild. The post Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches 57 Flaws, Flags Six Active Zero-Days  appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an…

  • 4 signs that $76.7K Bitcoin is probably the ultimate low

    4 signs that $76.7K Bitcoin is probably the ultimate low 2025-03-11 at 20:07 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman Bitcoin (BTC) dropped to a four-month low of $76,700 on March 11, following a 6% weekly decline in the S&P 500 index. The stock market correction pushed the index to its lowest level in six months as…

  • Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you’ll love replacement

    Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you’ll love replacement 2025-03-11 at 20:07 By Richard Speed Windows App the way ahead as support pulled from May 27 The end is nigh for Microsoft’s Remote Desktop application. The IT giant will pull support on May 27 when users must transition to the corp’s Windows App, with…

  • Ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg’s assistant was asked to draft ‘talking points’ while in labor, explosive memoir claims

    Ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg’s assistant was asked to draft ‘talking points’ while in labor, explosive memoir claims 2025-03-11 at 19:47 By Ariel Zilber A woman who formerly worked for Meta’s ex operating chief Sheryl Sandberg claims that she was tasked with drafting “talking points” for her boss while she was in labor with her first…

  • Patch Tuesday: Critical Code-Execution Bugs in Acrobat and Reader

    Patch Tuesday: Critical Code-Execution Bugs in Acrobat and Reader 2025-03-11 at 19:47 By Ryan Naraine Adobe documents 35 security flaws in a wide range of products, including code-execution issues in the Acrobat and Reader applications. The post Patch Tuesday: Critical Code-Execution Bugs in Acrobat and Reader appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt…

  • Blind Eagle Hacks Colombian Institutions Using NTLM Flaw, RATs and GitHub-Based Attacks

    Blind Eagle Hacks Colombian Institutions Using NTLM Flaw, RATs and GitHub-Based Attacks 2025-03-11 at 19:47 By The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been linked to a series of ongoing campaigns targeting Colombian institutions and government entities since November 2024. “The monitored campaigns targeted Colombian judicial institutions and other government or private organizations, with…

  • CoreWeave strikes $11.9B deal with OpenAI to deliver AI infrastructure

    CoreWeave strikes $11.9B deal with OpenAI to deliver AI infrastructure 2025-03-11 at 19:06 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino CoreWeave announced on March 11 that it had struck a five-year deal worth up to $11.9 billion with OpenAI, the nonprofit research and development company that created ChatGPT. Through the deal, OpenAI will become an investor in…

  • Coinbase plans India comeback with FIU registration

    Coinbase plans India comeback with FIU registration 2025-03-11 at 19:06 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is one step closer to relaunching its services in India after securing a license with the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).  On March 11, the crypto exchange revealed on social media that “we’re approved to launch in…

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