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AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed 2025-04-16 at 17:40 By Paul Kunert Bezos’ biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn’t fair AWS estimates that half of the workloads Microsoft enterprise customers run on Azure would migrate to its own datacenters […]

MITRE CVE has run out of funding, security leaders respond 2025-04-16 at 17:40 By Security leaders respond to the news that MITRE’s funding has run out.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google Blocked 5.1B Harmful Ads and Suspended 39.2M Advertiser Accounts in 2024 2025-04-16 at 16:48 By Google on Wednesday revealed that it suspended over 39.2 million advertiser accounts in 2024, with a majority of them identified and blocked by its systems before it could serve harmful ads to users. In all, the tech giant said […]

Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite 2025-04-16 at 15:45 By Iain Thomson Vintage phishing varietal has improved with age Russia never stops using proven tactics, and its Cozy Bear, aka APT 29, cyber-spies are once again trying to lure European diplomats into downloading malware with a phony invitation to a lux […]

Bitcoin could hit $1M if US buys 1M BTC — Bitcoin Policy Institute 2025-04-16 at 15:22 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra A Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) executive floated a $1 million Bitcoin price scenario if the United States were to buy 1 million BTC.  In a Bitcoin Magazine podcast, Zach Shapiro, the head of policy […]

Ethereum L2 development is ‘double-edged sword’ for ETH value 2025-04-16 at 15:22 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Ethereum’s push toward layer-2 (L2) blockchain scalability may be a double-edged sword for Ether, potentially weakening the value accrual of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, according to a new report from Binance Research. The report suggests that Ethereum’s L2 […]

Bitcoin Treasury bonds may help US refinance $14T debt — VanEck exec 2025-04-16 at 15:22 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz VanEck’s head of research has pitched a new type of US Treasury bond partially backed by Bitcoin to help refinance $14 trillion in US debt. Matthew Sigel pitched the concept of “BitBonds” — US Treasury […]

Security industry mourns the loss of Keith Oringer 2025-04-16 at 15:21 By Keith Oringer, Founder and President of Security ProAdvisors, passed away on April 11, 2025.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

From Third-Party Vendors to U.S. Tariffs: The New Cyber Risks Facing Supply Chains 2025-04-16 at 15:21 By Introduction Cyber threats targeting supply chains have become a growing concern for businesses across industries. As companies continue to expand their reliance on third-party vendors, cloud-based services, and global logistics networks, cybercriminals are exploiting vulnerabilities within these interconnected […]

Gamma AI Platform Abused in Phishing Chain to Spoof Microsoft SharePoint Logins 2025-04-16 at 15:21 By Threat actors are leveraging an artificial intelligence (AI) powered presentation platform named Gamma in phishing attacks to direct unsuspecting users to spoofed Microsoft login pages. “Attackers weaponize Gamma, a relatively new AI-based presentation tool, to deliver a link to […]

In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield 2025-04-16 at 14:44 By Connor Jones Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns Digital forensics in the UK is in need of reform, says one expert, as the deadline to advise the government on computer evidence rules arrives.… This […]