Topic: cybersecurity incidents
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2025's Most Devastating Cyberattacks Exposed
The cyber threat landscape has shifted towards sophisticated supply chain attacks, where breaches of third-party vendors like Gainsight and Salesloft led to widespread data exposure at major corporations including Cloudflare, Verizon, and Cisco. The Clop ransomware group exploited a critical vuln...
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Skills Shortages: The Top Cyber Threat Over Hiring
A severe global cybersecurity skills gap, particularly in technical expertise like AI and cloud security, is now a more dangerous threat than general staffing shortages, directly causing significant security incidents for most organizations. The primary obstacles to addressing this gap are a lack...
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Hacktivist DDoS Attacks Surge Against Government Sites
Hacktivist-driven DDoS attacks were the most frequent cybersecurity incidents in the public sector, accounting for 60% of cases, though they were not the most damaging. Data breaches and ransomware, often by cybercriminals and state actors, caused more severe impacts, targeting sensitive services...
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Microsoft Hires Google Cloud's Customer Chief as Security Head
Microsoft has appointed Hayete Gallot as its new executive vice president of security, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella to lead the company's security strategy and its Secure Future Initiative. This leadership change follows intense scrutiny of Microsoft's security culture, including a cri...
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Exposed: Dozens of Flock AI Camera Feeds Left Unsecured
A major security lapse exposed live feeds from Flock Safety's AI surveillance cameras, allowing unauthorized access without a password and raising serious privacy concerns. Researchers found the unsecured streams and associated control panels, enabling them to view intimate moments, download arch...
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Kyowon Hit by Ransomware Attack, Data Stolen
The Kyowon Group, a major South Korean conglomerate, suffered a ransomware attack in January that disrupted services and led to confirmed data theft from its servers. While the full scope is under investigation, the breach potentially affects millions of customers, but the company has not yet con...
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Securing AI for Space Exploration
Satellite cybersecurity is a growing challenge due to expanding commercial constellations and reliance on delay-prone communication links, creating multiple vulnerabilities. Artificial intelligence is being explored to automate threat detection and response, with debates focusing on centralized, ...
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AI Browsers: Are the Security Risks Worth It?
AI browsers integrate powerful language models to automate tasks like shopping and summarization, but they introduce significant security and privacy risks that users must weigh. Key threats include prompt injection attacks that can bypass safety protocols and allow unauthorized data access, with...
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Toyota Invests $1.5 Billion in Mobility Startups
Toyota is investing $1.5 billion in mobility startups through two new funds to support innovation from early concepts to scalable businesses. The automotive industry saw a surge in EV sales before a key tax credit expired, with Tesla reporting record deliveries, but now faces challenges sustainin...
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X Outage: Thousands Hit by Widespread Service Disruption
Social media platform X experienced a widespread outage for nearly three hours, preventing thousands of users from accessing the site or app and displaying various error messages. The disruption was caused by technical issues with Cloudflare, which detected a surge in unusual traffic and led to i...
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