Month: August 2024
Like many of us, Joyce spent many hours during the Covid lockdown connecting with friends playing games online–MahJong mostly. Imagine her surprise when using a legitimate app to find a scammer trying to empty her entire bank account. The likely culprit: an in-app advertisement. This episode is about the danger posed by the ads in…
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Proton VPN has announced a series of updates to its Windows and Android apps to help users combat censorship, circumvent blocks, and protect themselves from authoritarian governments due to using forbidden tools. One of the standout features is ‘Discreet Icon,’ a new setting allowing users to disguise the Proton VPN app icon and make it…
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“Cequence’s UAP platform offers advanced API discovery and mapping capabilities to ensure comprehensive security coverage,” Talwalkar added. “By automatically identifying all API gateways and infrastructure, including those on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, the platform eliminates blind spots often associated with traditional security tools.” API discovery, according to Marks, is a significant challenge in…
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It’s a common story: weak or reused passwords find their way online, with damaging consequences for organization. Criminals increasingly deploy stolen credentials to gain initial access to user accounts, bringing new demands for security. This had led to a booming market for stolen credentials and the initial access they can bring. The ENISA Threat Landscape…
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A hacker has breached Mobile Guardian, a digital classroom management platform used worldwide, and remotely wiped data from at least 13,000 student’s iPads and Chromebooks. Mobile Guardian, a ‘Google for Education’ partner, is a cross-platform (Android, Windows, iOS, ChromeOS, macOS) one-on-one solution for K-12 schools that offers a complete suite of device management, parental monitoring and…
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‘This is good for us all the way around,’ says Dale Foster, CEO Climb. ‘We have the field teams that will walk into accounts and go deeper, and our goal is to expand the Adobe relationship as we grow.’ Climb Channel Solutions has acquired Douglas Stewart Software, a software distributor to the education market in…
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Read MoreCISA released one Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory on August 6, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations. Source link lol
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“This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work,” said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, regarding his decision to leave for Anthropic. John Schulman, OpenAI co-founder and a key leader in the creation of ChatGPT,…
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The cybersecurity vendor says the move will bolster its Unified SASE platform. Fortinet on Tuesday announced it’s looking to bolster its SASE platform with the acquisition of data security startup Next DLP. Terms of the acquisition, which was completed as of Monday, were not disclosed. [Related: Fortinet Completes Acquisition Of Former Cloud Security Unicorn Lacework]…
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