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Edward M. Levy | Most Influential People in Security 2024-09-05 at 07:17 By Edward Levy reflects on how fulfilling it can be to witness a career come full circle. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown 2024-09-05 at 05:31 By Jessica Lyons Russia has seemingly decided who it wants Putin the Oval Office The Biden administration on Wednesday seized 32 websites and charged two employees of a state-owned media outlet connected to a $10 million scheme to distribute pro-Kremlin

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North Korean scammers plan wave of stealth attacks on crypto companies, FBI warns 2024-09-05 at 04:31 By Jessica Lyons Feds warn of ‘highly tailored, difficult-to-detect social engineering campaigns’ The FBI has warned that North Korean operatives are plotting “complex and elaborate” social engineering attacks against employees of decentralized finance (DeFi) organizations, as part of ongoing

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You had one job – and four US regulators will share info to check a merger didn’t unfairly end it 2024-09-05 at 02:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo The mass layoffs that follow tech acquisitions are likely to attract greater scrutiny Tech companies are forever acquiring each other, but future buys will likely face more scrutiny after

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Palo Alto takes a big bite out of IBM QRadar security 2024-09-05 at 01:31 By Iain Thomson Big Blue also shift to Prisma SASE to secure its 250,000 workforce Palo Alto Networks has completed its purchase of IBM’s QRadar SaaS service, spending $500 million to buy up customer share for PAN’s next-gen AI security Cortex

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Copilot for Microsoft 365 might boost productivity if you survive the compliance minefield 2024-09-05 at 00:32 By Richard Speed Loads of governance issues to worry about, and the chance it might spout utter garbage Microsoft has published a Transparency Note for Copilot for Microsoft 365, warning enterprises to ensure user access rights are correctly managed

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Planned Parenthood confirms cyber-attack as RansomHub threatens to leak data 2024-09-04 at 23:46 By Jessica Lyons 93GB of info feared pilfered in Montana by heartless crooks Planned Parenthood of Montana’s chief exec says the org is responding to a cyber-attack on its systems, and has drafted in federal law enforcement and infosec professionals to help

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Atomic clocks are so last epoch, it’s time someone nailed down the nuclear clock 2024-09-04 at 22:17 By Lindsay Clark ‘Giant step’ in research could unlock a bunch of crazy science stuff An international team of researchers has, for the first time, coupled an atomic nucleus to an atomic clock to compare differences in their

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Qualcomm guns for Intel, AMD with cheaper 8-core X chips 2024-09-04 at 21:16 By Tobias Mann It’s set to slice up the AI PC competition at $700-$900 Not to be outshined by Intel’s Lunar Lake launch, Qualcomm on Wednesday rolled out a pair of slimmed-down X chips aimed at cheaper Copilot+ PCs.… This article is

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Firefox 130 lands with a yawn, but 131 beta teases a long-awaited feature 2024-09-04 at 20:31 By Liam Proven The upcoming version might bring tab previews, cookie banner block, and vertical tabs Firefox 130 is landing on users’ machines, while version 131 enters beta — with a feature we’ve all been waiting for.… This article

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‘Error’ causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump 2024-09-04 at 20:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Bot shouldn’t have political opinions, says Amazon It would be perfectly reasonable to expect Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa to decline to state opinions about the 2024 presidential race, but up until recently, that assumption would have been incorrect.…

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atNorth plans mega datacenter that will help grow veggies and heat homes 2024-09-04 at 19:17 By Dan Robinson It’ll also do computery stuff Nordic datacenter operator atNorth says its next facility – the biggest to date – is to feature a heat reuse scheme for large-scale greenhouses and local housing.… This article is an excerpt

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Only 25% of organizations are prepared to manage a DDoS attack 2024-09-04 at 19:17 By A survey reveals IT and corporate leadership attitudes toward organizational security preparedness.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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North Korean Hackers Targets Job Seekers with Fake FreeConference App 2024-09-04 at 19:16 By North Korean threat actors have leveraged a fake Windows video conferencing application impersonating FreeConference.com to backdoor developer systems as part of an ongoing financially-driven campaign dubbed Contagious Interview. The new attack wave, spotted by Singaporean company Group-IB in mid-August 2024, is

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Microsoft’s Inflection acquihire is too small to matter, say UK regulators 2024-09-04 at 18:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Deal can’t lessen competition if AI minnow wasn’t much of a competitor Microsoft’s “acquihire” of Inflection AI was today cleared by UK authorities on the grounds that the startup isn’t big enough for its absorption by Microsoft to

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Cicada ransomware may be a BlackCat/ALPHV rebrand and upgrade 2024-09-04 at 17:46 By Jessica Lyons Researchers find many similarities, and nasty new customizations such as embedded compromised user credentials The Cicada3301 ransomware, which has claimed at least 20 victims since it was spotted in June, shares “striking similarities” with the notorious BlackCat ransomware, according to

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Google Confirms CVE-2024-32896 Exploited in the Wild, Releases Android Security Patch 2024-09-04 at 17:16 By Google has released its monthly security updates for the Android operating system to address a known security flaw that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-32896 (CVSS score: 7.8), relates to

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FCC finally gets around to banning Kaspersky from telecoms kit 2024-09-04 at 17:01 By Dan Robinson Communications agency now passing on the order to operators The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has woken up and issued a ban on Kaspersky software being used in telecoms kit, months after Washington deemed it a national security risk and

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