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* ShinyHunters abused OAuth trust in Salesforce by tricking users and later compromising SaaS integrations, stealing tokens to access hundreds of customer environments * Reports suggested up to 700 victims; attackers exfiltrated data via legitimate APIs, making activity appear normal and persistent * Microsoft responded with Defender for Cloud Apps upgrades, adding richer
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Sony has been catching a lot of heat from gamers after it announced its plans to no longer produce discs for games released after January 2028. One of the key complaints is the high pricing of games available in the PlayStation Store, but in an interview with Insider Gaming, a
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CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing' IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course.
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* NSA, FBI, CISA, and 15 allied agencies warn Russia’s FSB Center 16 is exploiting weak/default credentials and old Cisco flaws to compromise critical infrastructure devices * Advisory highlights CVE‑2018‑0171 (Smart Install DoS/RCE) and CVE‑2008‑412813 (CSRF in Cisco IOS 12.4) as examples of vulnerabilities
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For several weeks this summer, the AI industry was fixated on Anthropic’s latest frontier models and Washington’s fight to control who was granted access to them. But while everyone was watching the frontier, developers kept building — and they weren’t waiting around for permission from the Anthropics and
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CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing' IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course.
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A domain used by the messaging app Telegram mysteriously dropped offline on Monday, with the app’s founder, Pavel Durov, saying in an X post that t.me links had “stopped working.” The outage prevented users from accessing the t.me domain shortlink, used by the messaging app to allow
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OpenAI has spent the better part of the year involved in lawsuit after lawsuit, including one from the world’s richest man. But last Friday, the company was hit with one of the highest-profile legal actions yet — from Apple. OpenAI’s expensive hardware bet is what’s on the line.
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* Jamf researchers uncover “CrashStealer,” a notarized macOS infostealer disguised as Apple’s CrashReporter * Distributed via a fake site called “Werkbit Setup”, it bypasses Gatekeeper, installs a LaunchAgent * It then uses a fake password prompt to unlock Keychain, exfiltrating credentials, cookies, files, and data from 80 crypto wallets and 14 password
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Vulnerabilities The flaws can be exploited for authentication bypass, remote code execution, privilege escalation, and directory traversal. Broadcom announced on Tuesday that new VMware Avi Load Balancer updates patch several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. VMware Avi Load Balancer is a software-defined platform that provides load balancing, application security, and analytics
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* 20+ digital rights groups and tech firms urge the UK not to restrict VPNs * Age-gating VPNs would undermine the online privacy of millions, they warn * Signatories believe VPN restrictions are ineffective, technically unfeasible The UK government's ongoing debate around tightening online safety rules to protect kids has drawn
