Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has been blocked in Indonesia by its government after citizens reportedly complained about pornographic and online gambling content in its search results. The government’s choice to block DuckDuckGo isn’t surprising considering the cultural and religious context, with Indonesia being a Muslim country where gambling is prohibited and porn is viewed as…
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Anrok, Momentum.io and Sierra are among the most impressive SaaS companies so far this year. A sales tax management tools provider. A way to turn sales and customer calls into intelligence. And a conversational artificial intelligence platform from the former co-CEO of Salesforce. Anrok, Momentum.io and Sierra are just some of the startups operating under…
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Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has been sued by investors who say it provided false claims about its Falcon platform after a bad security update led to a massive global IT outage causing the stock price to tumble almost 38%. The plaintiffs claim that the massive IT outage that occurred on July 19, 2024, proves CrowdStrike’s claims that their…
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The cybersecurity vendor is looking to extend its SASE platform with the acquisition of ‘trailblazer’ Lacework, Fortinet says. Fortinet is looking to significantly extend its cybersecurity platform with the completion of the acquisition Friday of cloud security “trailblazer” Lacework, the company said. Terms of the agreement, which was initially announced June 10, have remained undisclosed.…
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AWS capabilities around “operational performance and security … and a deeper partner ecosystem” remain differentiators in the cloud race, Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy said. Amazon Web Services partners, and Amazon itself, are seeing increased work around preparing customer data for artificial intelligence – which will also drive growth in the vendor’s cloud business, though AI…
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IBM’s latest “Cost of a Data Breach Report” finds these data-theft incidents getting more expensive. Plus, the IT-ISAC says that ransomware attacks fell in Q2 due to law-enforcement disruptions of ransomware groups. Meanwhile, check out a Carnegie Mellon comp sci professor’s take on AI system security. And Tenable’s headed to Black Hat – visit our…
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Enterprise cybersecurity protections are failing to keep pace with the evolving threat landscape, which now includes everything from the weaponization of AI to state-sponsored hacking groups to the metastasizing of run-of-the-mill vulnerabilities (misconfigurations, unpatched devices) that are getting exponentially harder to keep up with as system complexity increases. Many of today’s security holes also align with…
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Seleznev cost the US about $170 million Seleznev, also known by his hacker name Track2, is the son of a prominent Russian lawmaker, Valery Seleznev, and was arrested in July 2014 in the Maldives, and subsequently extradited to the US, for his involvement in cybercrime activities. The crimes Seleznev was convicted of included hacking and…
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Aug 02, 2024The Hacker News In today’s digital battlefield, small and medium businesses (SMBs) face the same cyber threats as large corporations, but with fewer resources. Managed service providers (MSPs) are struggling to keep up with the demand for protection. If your current cybersecurity strategy feels like a house of cards – a complex, costly…
Read MoreLeaked GitHub Python Token Here’s a disaster that didn’t happen: Cybersecurity researchers from JFrog recently discovered a GitHub Personal Access Token in a public Docker container hosted on Docker Hub, which granted elevated access to the GitHub repositories of the Python language, Python Package Index (PyPI), and the Python Software Foundation (PSF). JFrog discussed what…
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