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Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday published advisories describing more than a dozen vulnerabilities affecting its products. The new advisories cover 13 vulnerabilities specific to Palo Alto Networks products, as well as more than 500 flaws patched recently by Google in Chromium, which the cybersecurity giant uses for its Prisma browser.
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Many security device vulnerabilities start right at home. Direct smart home hacking isn't nearly as common as some people fear, but when devices are infected by botnets, it's typically because of weak Wi-Fi encryption, not using TFA and bad passwords. But it's important to
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* AssuranceAmerica reports breach affecting 6,998,886 customers, with attackers stealing credentials and exfiltrating sensitive insurance and driver data * Company reset passwords, isolated systems, and deployed enhanced monitoring; warns victims of phishing risks using stolen details * No group has claimed responsibility, and stolen data has not yet surfaced on the
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* Russia’s Digital Development Ministry confirmed it has completely dropped its plan to charge users for international internet traffic. * The proposal initially aimed to charge users roughly 150 rubles per extra gigabyte after a 15GB monthly allowance. * Demand for censorship circumvention tools remains at an all-time high as the Kremlin
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* Exposed ElasticSearch cluster at Nextcloud contained ~367k records (8GB), including employee data, client contracts, and scripts * Sensitive information such as staff emails and client company details was left unencrypted; Nextcloud secured the archive within two days after notification * Company attributed the incident to hosting misconfiguration, stressing customer servers were unaffected,
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Norton Antivirus3 / 5 pros and cons * Excellent real-world protection * Deep scan tools * Quiet operation * Key features behind paywalls * AI assistant can be unreliable Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Continuing my journey with today's antivirus programs, I spent the last month and a half
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Bengaluru-based deeptech startup eNLife Research has raised Rs 6 crore in a seed funding round led by Piper Serica VC Fund to advance an AI-powered blood test designed to identify Alzheimer's disease long before clinical symptoms emerge. The funding will be used to strengthen the company's
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Vulnerabilities The privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-50656 has been patched with a Microsoft Malware Protection Engine update. Microsoft has begun rolling out patches for a Defender vulnerability known as RoguePlanet, roughly one month after a researcher published a zero-day exploit for it. Officially tracked as CVE-2026-50656, the vulnerability leverages
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TL;DR - Fable 5 is available again inside paid Claude plans for a short promotional window ending July 7 at 23:59:59 Pacific Time. - During the promotion, Fable 5 can use up to 50% of a weekly plan limit and shares the same usage pool as other
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * The Point-in-time Restore feature is now available for all Windows editions. * It takes daily snapshots of the system state to help recover from a serious problem. * If your system drive is 200 GB or larger,
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Several popular AI coding assistants were tricked into facilitating developer machine hacking via an attack technique that has been known for decades, according to Google-owned cloud security giant Wiz. Dubbed GhostApproval, the attack has been successfully tested against Claude Code, Amazon Q Developer, Cursor, Google Antigravity, Augment, and Windsurf. GhostApproval
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DXC Technology recently announced the opening of its new Customer Experience Center in Bengaluru. The new facility is one of DXC’s largest global delivery hubs and reinforces its role in helping organizations move from AI experimentation to scaled deployment, expanding the company’s global network of customer collaboration sites.
