Tag: technology
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Research reveals possible privacy gaps in Apple Intelligence’s data handling
LAS VEGAS, One of the big worries during the generative AI boom is where exactly data is traveling when users enter queries or commands into the system. According to new research, those worries may also extend to one of the world’s most popular consumer technology companies. Apple’s artificial intelligence ecosystem, known as Apple Intelligence, […]…
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What is a CISO? The top IT security leader role explained
Tags: access, authentication, breach, business, ceo, cio, cisa, ciso, compliance, computer, container, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, dns, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, framework, fraud, guide, Hardware, healthcare, infosec, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, kubernetes, mitigation, msp, mssp, network, nist, programming, RedTeam, regulation, risk, risk-management, security-incident, service, skills, software, strategy, technology, threat, training, vpn, zero-day, zero-trust. You’ll often hear people say the difference between the two is that CISOs focus entirely on information security issues, while a CSOs remit is wider, also taking in physical security as well as risk management.But reality is messier. Many companies, especially smaller ones, have only one C-level security officer, called a CSO, with IT…
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ChatGPT-5 Launches Discover What’s New in the Next-Gen AI Agent
OpenAI has officially launched ChatGPT-5, marking a significant leap forward in artificial intelligence technology with a revolutionary unified system that combines multiple specialized models to deliver unprecedented performance and versatility. The launch represents the most substantial advancement in conversational AI since the debut of its predecessors, introducing groundbreaking capabilities that promise to transform how users…
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Act Now: $100M in FY25 Cyber Grants for SLTTs Available Before August 15
Tags: attack, breach, cisa, cloud, compliance, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, governance, government, identity, incident response, infrastructure, iot, metric, network, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityWith over $100 million on the table in FY25 cybersecurity grants, state, local and tribal governments have until August 15, 2025 to apply to secure critical cyber funding to strengthen their defenses. On August 1st, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the FY 2025 Notice…
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Four Areas CISOs Must Assess Before Being AI Ready
Every CISO must assess their organization’s AI readiness from technology and talent to governance and compliance. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/four-areas-cisos-must-assess-before-being-ai-ready/
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5 hard truths of a career in cybersecurity, and how to navigate them
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, cio, ciso, conference, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, finance, firewall, framework, gartner, identity, ISO-27001, jobs, mitigation, network, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, skills, strategy, technology, threat, training, wafCybersecurity teams protect systems but neglect people: After all the effort it takes to break into cybersecurity, professionals often end up on teams that don’t feel welcoming or supportive.Jinan Budge, a research director at Forrester who focuses on enabling CISOs and other technical leaders, believes the way most cybersecurity career paths are structured plays a…
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Top cybersecurity M&A deals for 2025
Tags: 5G, access, ai, api, apple, application-security, attack, automation, awareness, banking, breach, business, ceo, cisco, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, detection, edr, email, endpoint, finance, firewall, gitlab, government, group, ibm, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, leak, microsoft, mitigation, network, password, programming, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, sophos, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, waf, zero-trustPalo Alto Networks to buy CyberArk for $25B as identity security takes center stage July 30, 2025: Palo Alto Networks is making what could be its biggest bet yet by agreeing to buy Israeli identity security company CyberArk for around $25 billion. “We envision Identity Security becoming the next major pillar of our multi-platform strategy, complementing our leadership…
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Microsoft’s Failed Strategy Security as an Afterthought
Tags: conference, control, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, hacker, microsoft, password, privacy, risk, service, strategy, technology, vulnerabilityMicrosoft faces ongoing, systemic cybersecurity failures rooted in blind spots within its very organizational design. These vulnerabilities repeatedly result in serious product blunders and damaging breaches. This has once again become evident with the continuing Microsoft Recall debacle where an OS feature was not developed with the benefit of security design inputs, that took into…
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6 things keeping CISOs up at night
Tags: access, ai, attack, breach, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, data-breach, deep-fake, email, exploit, infrastructure, jobs, metric, password, phishing, regulation, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityAI’s potential to create a competency crisis: At mental health organization Headspace CISO Jameeka Aaron sees many potential applications for AI but she is balancing enablement with caution. However, Aaron is particularly concerned about the impact of generative AI on the hiring process.While strong developers can leverage AI to their advantage, weaker developers may appear…
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Attackers exploit link-wrapping services to steal Microsoft 365 logins
A threat actor has been abusing link wrapping services from reputed technology companies to mask malicious links leading to Microsoft 365 phishing pages that collect login credentials. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/attackers-exploit-link-wrapping-services-to-steal-microsoft-365-logins/
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Ninety laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam
Christine Chapman apologizes for role in identity fraud that amassed millions to allegedly aid nuclear weapons programIn March 2020, about the time the Covid pandemic started, Christina Chapman, a woman who lived in Arizona and Minnesota, received a message on LinkedIn asking her to “be the US face” of a company and help overseas IT…
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OT Security: Guide For Critical Infrastructure
Operational Technology (OT) security encompasses a set of practices and procedures aimed at protecting cyber-physical systems and industrial control systems (ICS) from cyber threats and exploitation. ICS are essential OT components widely used across industries to automate and manage production processes. As critical infrastructure increasingly adopts digital technologies to boost efficiency and innovation, it also……
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Met Police to double facial recognition use amid budget cuts
Tags: technologyThe UK’s largest police force is massively expanding its use of live facial recognition technology as it prepares to lose 1,700 officers and staff First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366628280/Met-Police-to-double-facial-recognition-use-amid-budget-cuts
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SentinelLabs uncovers China’s hidden cyber-espionage arsenal
CSOonline that the most important pieces of new information gleaned from the findings are that “China’s contracting ecosystem forces many companies and individuals to collaborate on intrusions. This means many China-based Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) may actually contain many different companies with many different clients.”The nation’s diverse private sector offensive ecosystem, he said, “supports a…
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How bright are AI agents? Not very, recent reports suggest
CSOs should ‘skip the fluff’: Meghu’s advice to CSOs: Stop reading the marketing and betting too much of your business on AI/LLM technology as it exists today. Start small and always have a human operator to guide it.”If you skip the fluff and get to the practical application, we have a new technology that could…
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HHS Data Plan Aims to ‘Make Health Technology Great Again’
Voluntary Effort Calls for Standards, Empowering Patients, But What About Privacy?. The Trump administration launched an initiative to improve patient data interoperability, exchange and accessibility throughout the healthcare ecosystem. The effort asks tech firms, healthcare providers and insurers to voluntarily comply with standards and data sharing criteria. Sounds like déjà vu? First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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SafePay Claims Ingram Micro Breach, Sets Ransom Deadline
The ransomware gang claims to have stolen 3.5TB of data, and told the technology distributor to pay up or suffer a data breach. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/safepay-ingram-micro-breach-ransom-deadline
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Getting a Cybersecurity Vibe Check on Vibe Coding
Following a number of high-profile security and development issues surrounding the use of LLMs and GenAI to code and create applications, it’s worth taking a temperature check to ask: Is this technology ready for prime time? First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/cybersecurity-vibe-check-vibe-coding
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Ransomware up 179%, credential theft up 800%: 2025’s cyber onslaught intensifies
Exploits multiply as defenders play catch-up: Vulnerability disclosure rose by 246%, and publicly available exploits increased by 179%, with over 20000 vulnerabilities disclosed in the first half of 202535% of which already have exploit code.A backlog of 42000 vulnerabilities awaiting NVD analysis and delays in CVE enrichment leave organizations blind to many critical flaws, the…
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Cyberkriminelle setzen Ingram Micro Ultimatum
Tags: attack, breach, cyberattack, data, group, intelligence, leak, lockbit, ransomware, service, technology, threatRansomware-Gangster erpressen Ingram Micro.Anfang Juli 2025 wurde bekannt, dass der IT-Dienstleister Ingram Micro von einer Ransomware-Attacke betroffen ist. Diese zog auch einen mehrtägigen Ausfall der IT-Systeme nach sich. Inzwischen laufen die Systeme zwar größtenteils wieder, trotzdem könnte der größte Schaden noch bevorstehen.Denn inzwischen hat sich die Ransomware-Bande Safepay zu dem Angriff bekannt und Ingram Micro…
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Bangalore Techie Arrested for Alleged Role in $44 Million Cryptocurrency Theft
A Bangalore-based technology professional has been arrested in connection with a massive cryptocurrency theft worth approximately ₹379 crore ($44 million) from the popular Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX, according to law enforcement officials. The arrest represents one of the most significant cryptocurrency fraud cases in India’s rapidly evolving digital asset landscape. The suspect, whose identity has…
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Mind the overconfidence gap: CISOs and staff don’t see eye to eye on security posture
Tags: ai, attack, awareness, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, grc, group, hacker, identity, incident response, intelligence, international, least-privilege, metric, network, phishing, ransomware, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, soc, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, updateMisplaced priorities: Investments often favor visibility and compliance over “core capabilities like detection engineering, incident response, and threat containment,” according to Santiago Pontiroli, lead security researcher at cybersecurity vendor Acronis TRU.Delayed adaptation: AI-driven threats demand faster, smarter defenses, but key upgrades (such as behavior-based analytics or automation) are often postponed due to underestimated risk, according…
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Ransomware gang tells Ingram Micro, ‘Pay up by August 1’
Tags: access, attack, backup, breach, cyber, cyberattack, data, data-breach, encryption, exploit, extortion, government, group, international, Internet, law, leak, organized, ransom, ransomware, technology, tool, vpn, vulnerabilityRansomware attacks increase: In a report on ransomware released this week, researchers at Zscaler ThreatLabz said the number of organizations listed on all ransomware leak sites rose 70% in the 12 month period ending in April.A growing number of ransomware operators are abandoning encryption of data in favour of just data extortion, it noted. For…
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Enterprises neglect AI security and attackers have noticed
IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance… First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/firms_are_neglecting_ai_security/
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Applying Tenable’s Risk-based Vulnerability Management to the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight
Tags: ai, attack, breach, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, cvss, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, endpoint, finance, firewall, framework, google, government, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, microsoft, mitigation, network, ransomware, risk, service, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, windows, zero-dayLearn how Thales Cyber Services uses Tenable to help customers navigate the maturity levels of the Essential Eight, enabling vulnerability management and staying ahead of cyber threats. In today’s fast-moving digital world, cyber threats are more advanced and relentless than ever. A single security breach can mean financial loss, reputational damage and operational chaos. That’s…