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Cloud computing, security and CDN provider Akamai announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire LayerX, a company specializing in AI and browser security, for roughly $205 million. LayerX, which has raised a total of $45 million, has developed a security platform that provides real-time visibility and control over
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Another bad Linux kernel bug has appeared. * Fragnesia can give unauthorized users root powers. * More open-source security bugs are likely coming. According to Linus's law, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,
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* Cisco will be making 4,000 workers redundant very soon * Last quarter the company posted a "record" 12% growth in revenue * Investors seem happy with revenue growth and the future outlook Cisco has confirmed it will be laying off around 4,000 workers, representing 5% of its global
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I want to talk about the Microsoft 365 Copilot bug. Not because it was exceptional, but because what it exposed should change how every organization architects AI governance. For weeks at the beginning of the year, Microsoft 365 Copilot read and summarized confidential emails despite sensitivity labels and Data Loss
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facepalm: The case of the Akhter brothers will likely go down as a textbook example of why companies handling sensitive materials should conduct thorough background checks on new hires – and revoke computer access immediately
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Government agencies from Group of Seven (G7) countries this week published joint guidance to help organizations create a software bill of materials (SBOM) for AI. An SBOM is a detailed, machine-readable manifest that catalogs every component, library, dependency, and module incorporated into a software product to provide full transparency into
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The big clock is just one of the new features you can try now on your device. 4 min read Apple could announce iOS 27 at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, and the operating system is rumored to overhaul Siri and the Camera app on your device. But when
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* Microsoft unveiled MDASH, an AI‑powered vulnerability discovery platform orchestrating 100+ agents * MDASH found 16 new Windows flaws, including four critical RCEs (CVE‑2026‑33827 in tcpip.sys and CVE‑2026‑33824 in IKEv2) patched in May updates * Platform showed high accuracy with zero false positives in testing, now used
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A new wave of cyberattacks has been hitting organisations across Japan and the Asia-Pacific area. These attacks, which began in late September 2025, have been linked by security experts at Darktrace to a group known as Twill Typhoon, which is using clever tricks to hide its activity by pretending to
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By Merium Khalid, Director of SOC Offensive Security, Barracuda Networks For years, the cybersecurity industry has looked for the next breakthrough in threat technology, sometimes missing a quieter truth: attackers don’t always rely on revolutionary tools. More often, they take advantage of the everyday weaknesses that organisations can sometimes
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As CEO Chuck Robbins talked about another strong strong AI-driven quarter for Cisco, up to 4,000 of the firm’s staffers, five percent of the total workforce, are about to join the growing ranks of the tech sector’s AI-enabled unemployed. Robbins told Cisco employees in a memo that
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Check out NIST’s Cyber AI Profile Preliminary Draft and Save the Date for our Cyber AI Workshop #2 in January The NIST NCCoE is excited to announce the release of the preliminary draft NIST IR 8596, Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Artificial Intelligence (Cyber AI Profile). We also invite you
