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2025 State of SaaS Backup and Recovery Report
2025-01-24 11:00

The modern workplace has undergone a seismic transformation over recent years, with hybrid work becoming the norm and businesses rapidly adopting cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)...

DoJ Indicts 5 Individuals for $866K North Korean IT Worker Scheme Violations
2025-01-24 09:53

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday indicted two North Korean nationals, a Mexican national, and two of its own citizens for their alleged involvement in the ongoing fraudulent...

Android's New Identity Check Feature Locks Device Settings Outside Trusted Locations
2025-01-24 07:20

Google has launched a new feature called Identity Check for supported Android devices that locks sensitive settings behind biometric authentication when outside of trusted locations. "When you...

China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps
2025-01-24 05:59

Paint a target on Myanmar, pledge more info-sharing to get the job done A group established by six Asian nations to fight criminal cyber-scam slave camps that infest the region claims it’s made...

CISA Adds Five-Year-Old jQuery XSS Flaw to Exploited Vulnerabilities List
2025-01-24 05:39

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday placed a now-patched security flaw impacting the popular jQuery JavaScript library to its Known Exploited...

Nearly half of CISOs now report to CEOs, showing their rising influence
2025-01-24 05:30

The CISO’s rise to the C-suite comes with more engagement with the boardroom, an audience with the CEO, and the power to make strategic decisions for the business, according to Splunk. CISOs...

GUI frontends for GnuPG, the free implementation of the OpenPGP standard
2025-01-24 05:00

GnuPG is a free and comprehensive implementation of the OpenPGP standard. It enables encryption and signing of data and communications, featuring a key management system and support for public key...

Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional
2025-01-24 04:31

'Public interest alone does not justify warrantless querying' says judge It was revealed this week a court in New York made a landmark ruling that sided against the warrantless state surveillance...

Deepfakes force a new era in fraud detection, identity verification
2025-01-24 04:30

The rise in identity fraud over the past two years has significantly impacted all industries, especially finance, banking, fintech, and crypto, according to Regula. With deepfakes threatening...

One of Salt Typhoon's favorite flaws still wide open on 91% of at-risk Exchange Servers
2025-01-23 23:30

But we mean, you've had nearly four years to patch One of the critical security flaws exploited by China's Salt Typhoon to breach US telecom and government networks has had a patch available for...