Topic: data security
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comforte AG Launches TAMUNIO: The Ultimate Data Security Shield
Businesses face escalating data security challenges due to increased cloud and AI adoption, prompting comforte AG to launch TAMUNIO, a unified platform designed to reduce risk and support secure innovation. The platform utilizes tokenization, encryption, and confidential computing to protect sens...
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Tata Motors Patches Security Flaws That Exposed Customer Data
A security researcher discovered and reported critical vulnerabilities in Tata Motors' E-Dukaan portal, including exposed AWS private keys that could access sensitive customer and corporate data. The breach risked exposing extensive information such as customer invoices with personal details, MyS...
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Secure Your Hybrid Cloud Data with Fortra DSPM
Fortra has launched a new Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) solution to help organizations discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in hybrid cloud environments, enhancing visibility and control over data assets. The DSPM platform automates data discovery and classification, continuou...
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Top 10 Data Security Companies to Watch in 2026
Atakama provides a browser security platform for managed service providers, enabling data policy enforcement and threat monitoring through browser extensions and dashboards. AvePoint offers a Data Security Posture Management solution that identifies, classifies, and protects sensitive cloud data ...
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NTT DATA and Fortanix Partner to Boost AI and Quantum Security
NTT DATA and Fortanix have launched a Cryptography-as-a-Service solution that combines advanced data security with AI expertise to protect sensitive information across hybrid and multicloud infrastructures against current and future quantum threats. The service emphasizes crypto-agility, enabling...
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GuardWare Launches World-First Solution to Permanently Stop Data Theft
GuardWare has launched PROTECT, a pioneering encryption software suite that persistently secures sensitive data during active use, enabling secure movement in supply chains and remote file destruction. PROTECT addresses vulnerabilities in unstructured data files by employing a data-centric securi...
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DOGE May Have Exposed Millions of SSNs on Insecure Server
A Senate report reveals that personnel from Elon Musk's DOGE team are operating a cloud server containing millions of Americans' sensitive personal data, including Social Security numbers, without adequate protective measures. The exposed database includes actual production data such as birth det...
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Latest Updates on the US TikTok Deal
TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, has faced years of U.S. scrutiny over data security concerns, leading to political tensions and service disruptions for American users. A proposed deal would transfer control of TikTok's U.S. operations to American investors like Oracle and Silver Lake, valuing...
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DOGE Exposes Social Security Data in Major Cloud Security Breach
An unauthorized live copy of the Social Security database was created in a cloud environment, bypassing standard oversight and putting the personal data of over 300 million Americans at risk. The breach, allegedly directed by SSA officials, exposed sensitive information including names, birth det...
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Top Infosec Products Launched This Week: August 2025
Rubrik’s Agent Rewind offers AI-driven visibility and rewind capabilities to reverse unintended changes, mitigating risks in automated decision-making. Trellix’s DLP Endpoint Complete now supports ARM devices, providing comprehensive data protection against exfiltration and unauthorized software ...
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New SSD Self-Destructs with Red Button: Watch Data Erase Instantly
Team Group's P250Q-M80 SSD features Intelligent Dual-Mode Data Destruction, offering both software-based wiping and a hardware-based self-destruct option that physically fries the NAND flash for irrecoverable data erasure. The SSD meets military-grade durability standards (MIL-STD 810G/...
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Homomorphic Encryption Protects AI Conversations
AI chatbot conversations are being exposed in public search results, highlighting a major digital privacy vulnerability that affects multiple platforms. A potential solution involves fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), which allows AI models to process encrypted user prompts and return encrypted ...
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Veeam Acquires Securiti AI to Unify Data Resilience and AI Security
Veeam Software is acquiring Securiti AI for $1.725 billion to merge data protection with advanced data security, governance, and AI trust capabilities. The acquisition addresses fragmented data management by providing a unified command center for secure data oversight, recovery, and AI innovation...
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Mastering GenAI: Innovate Without the Risk
Global business leaders are embracing generative AI for its transformative potential and significant returns, with 78% of organizations using AI and achieving an average return of $3.70 per dollar invested. Despite the benefits, there is growing apprehension about AI-driven risks, including data ...
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Mastering GenAI: Innovate Boldly, Manage Risk Wisely
Generative AI is widely adopted by businesses for innovation and efficiency, but its rapid integration introduces significant security risks like data leaks and a lack of specific protocols. High-profile incidents, such as breaches at JedAI and Samsung, demonstrate vulnerabilities including shado...
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Senate Probe Finds DOGE Offices Barricaded, Windows Covered
A Senate investigation found that the Digital Office of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded a live copy of the highly sensitive Social Security NUMIDENT database to an unmonitored cloud environment, bypassing oversight protocols. The data transfer was approved by SSA Chief Information Officers ...
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Secure Your Copilot: Sentra's Zero-Trust Data Protection
Sentra has introduced a specialized security solution to protect sensitive enterprise data within Microsoft 365 Copilot environments, ensuring compliance and safeguarding confidential information. The platform offers capabilities such as discovery and classification of sensitive data, data access...
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Trump Administration Denies Social Security Data Breach
The Trump administration denied a whistleblower's claim that the Social Security Administration improperly copied the sensitive NUMIDENT database to an unsecured cloud system, asserting it was stored on a secured server with continuous oversight. Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano confi...
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Claude's New AI File Feature: Built-In Security Risks Exposed
Anthropic's new file creation tool for Claude AI enables users to generate documents like Excel and PowerPoint files but introduces significant security risks, including potential data exposure to external servers. The tool operates in a sandboxed environment with internet access, making it vulne...
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SSA Whistleblower's Resignation Email Vanishes From Inboxes
An email from the Social Security Administration's chief data officer, Chuck Borges, detailing his forced resignation and whistleblower complaint over data mishandling, vanished from employee inboxes shortly after being sent. Borges alleged that the SSA improperly transferred sensitive personal d...
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Whistleblower: DOGE Leaked Social Security Data on Unsecured Server
A whistleblower alleges that the Social Security Administration's DOGE department uploaded hundreds of millions of sensitive records to an unsecured cloud server, risking exposure of personal data for nearly all Americans. The complaint claims senior officials approved the transfer despite warnin...
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Australian Consumer Trust Plummets as Security Fears Soar: Ping Identity
Only 11% of Australian adults fully trust organizations with their digital identities, reflecting a significant decline in consumer trust driven by AI-related data security fears. Australians are increasingly concerned about AI-driven threats, with 82% more worried about data security than five y...
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Anthropic Warns: New Claude Feature Poses Data Risk
Anthropic's Claude AI now enables users to create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and PDFs directly within the platform, aiming to enhance productivity but raising data security concerns. The feature, currently for Max, Team, and Enterprise users with a future rollout to Pro, requires activatio...
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Post-Quantum Security: Why You Need It Now
Australia is at a critical technological juncture where quantum computing presents both opportunities and a fundamental risk to existing cryptographic systems, threatening the security of sensitive data. Quantum computers can break widely used encryption standards like RSA and ECC, potentially de...
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Veeam Buys Securiti AI in $1.7B Deal
Veeam Software has acquired Securiti AI for $1.725 billion, combining Veeam's data resilience with Securiti's expertise in data security, privacy, and AI trust to create a unified platform. The merger addresses fragmented data management by providing a single command center for CIOs, CISOs, and C...
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Veeam Buys Securiti AI in $1.7 Billion Data Security Deal
Veeam has acquired Securiti AI for $1.725 billion to enhance data management and protection, integrating its technology into Veeam's data resilience solutions by early December. The acquisition aligns with Veeam's strategy to expand its capabilities in data security and AI readiness, following a ...
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86% of Businesses Use AI for This Unexpected Task
A Deloitte study shows 86% of organizations have integrated generative AI into their M&A workflows, with rapid adoption in the past year signaling a major shift in handling complex transactions. Despite widespread use, significant concerns exist about data security, quality, model reliability, an...
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Avoid These 6 Common Agentic AI Mistakes
Organizations face challenges with agentic AI due to common pitfalls like vendor rebranding of basic automation as AI, which can be identified by demanding evidence of adaptive, goal-oriented decision-making during testing. Key risks include data-set creep, where AI accesses unauthorized informat...
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Snowflake Launches AI Suite and MCP for Finance
Snowflake has launched two key innovations for the financial sector: a specialized AI suite (Cortex AI for Financial Services) and support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, enabling secure development and deployment of AI agents while protecting sensitive data. The MCP Server allows AI...
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Intel, AMD Secure Enclaves Breached by Physical Attacks
Hardware-level security features like Intel's SGX and AMD's SEV-SNP create isolated, encrypted environments in processors to protect sensitive data, widely used by platforms such as Signal and WhatsApp. Recent academic studies have exposed vulnerabilities in these technologies, with attacks like ...
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Top 4 Platforms for Easy Online Registration
Selecting the right online registration software is critical for businesses, requiring a platform that is secure, intuitive, and cost-effective to ensure a positive experience for organizers and participants. Four standout platforms are highlighted: Regpack for its all-in-one management and high ...
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Senate Probe Exposes DOGE Takeover: Armed Guards, Muscle Milk
A Senate investigation revealed that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), established under Elon Musk, operated covertly within federal agencies with minimal oversight, raising concerns about a potential catastrophic data breach and unclear chains of command. DOGE systematically infilt...
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Google's VaultGemma: Secure, Private AI for Sensitive Data
Google has launched VaultGemma, a new large language model that uses differential privacy to protect sensitive information during training, making it suitable for industries like healthcare and finance. The model is open-sourced for researchers and developers to experiment with privacy-preserving...
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TikTok's US Future: The Buyout Battle Explained
The future of TikTok in the U.S. is uncertain due to national security concerns over data access by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, leading to legislative actions and potential divestment or a ban. A tentative framework has been established between U.S. and Chinese officials, with investor...
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Box Shield Pro: Secure AI Workflows & Protect Sensitive Data
Box has launched Box Shield Pro, an AI-enhanced security suite that builds on its existing platform to better protect enterprise data and improve threat response against risks like ransomware and accidental exposure. The new solution includes AI-driven agents for automated content classification,...
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Tech Manufacturer Data I/O Struck by Ransomware Attack
Data I/O, a U.S. technology manufacturer, experienced a ransomware attack on August 16, disrupting critical operations including communications, shipping, and production. The company has partially restored some functions but has not provided a timeline for full recovery, and the attack's financia...
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ExaGrid 7.4.0 Adds New MSP Features for Tiered Backup Storage
ExaGrid's Version 7.4.0 introduces features tailored for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), enhancing data protection and streamlining billing and operations on its Tiered Backup Storage platform. The update allows MSPs to host multiple clients securely on a single system with dedicated shares, en...
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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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Snowflake Cortex AI: Enterprise-Ready AI for Financial Services
Snowflake has launched Cortex AI for Financial Services, a suite of AI tools designed to help financial institutions unify data systems and deploy secure, compliant AI models and applications, addressing regulatory demands and enhancing operational efficiency. The offering includes a managed Mode...
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AI's Success Hinges on Trusted, Well-Governed Data
Many businesses are struggling to implement AI effectively due to a lack of trusted, well-governed data, which is essential for reliable and secure outcomes. A significant challenge is the complexity and security risks associated with unstructured data, with many organizations citing budget const...
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NetApp Unveils AI Innovations to Power Your Data Platform
NetApp has launched new solutions, including the AFX storage system and AI Data Engine (AIDE), to provide a secure, scalable, and unified data foundation for AI workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments. The AFX system offers independent scaling of performance and capacity, supports up ...
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Snowflake Expands to AWS New Zealand to Meet Growing Demand
Snowflake is expanding in New Zealand by deploying a local instance on AWS's new region to address demands for data sovereignty, security, and governance, keeping data onshore while offering scalable AI services. The local instance, operational by the first half of 2026, will allow public and pri...
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Education Sector Fortifies Ransomware Defenses, But IT Teams Pay a Heavy Price
Educational institutions are improving ransomware defenses, with 97% successfully recovering encrypted data and average ransom payments dropping significantly. Despite progress, vulnerabilities persist due to inadequate staffing and evolving threats like AI-enhanced phishing, while IT staff face ...
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Unlock Custom Tasks with Claude Skills: Here's How
Anthropic's Skills for Claude allow users to customize the AI's behavior for specific tasks, transforming it into a specialized tool for individual and business needs. The system includes both custom and pre-built Skills for tasks like generating documents, enabling Claude to autonomously handle ...
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400 Million Windows PCs Face Critical Security Threat
Microsoft is ending security updates for Windows 10, leaving 400 million PCs vulnerable to cyber threats due to hardware incompatibility with Windows 11. The scale of affected devices is unprecedented, with 41% of global PCs running Windows 10, far exceeding previous Windows phase-outs and creati...
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Ootbi Mini: Zero Trust, Unbreakable Data Security
Object First launched the Ootbi Mini, a compact, immutable storage appliance designed to protect Veeam backup data from ransomware, targeting remote offices and small businesses with capacities up to 24TB. The device is built on a zero trust architecture, ensuring complete data immutability and r...
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Slack Launches AI Platform for Secure, Context-Aware Apps
Slack has launched a new AI platform that enables developers to build secure, context-aware applications within its ecosystem, using user-owned conversational data for personalized, intelligent interactions. The platform includes key developer resources like a real-time search API, Model Context ...
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G42 Drives UAE's AI Dominance with Sector-Wide Breakthroughs
The UAE is advancing as a global AI leader, with G42 Group driving progress in digital sovereignty, data security, and AI integration across key economic sectors during the first half of 2025. In cybersecurity, CBX launched AI-powered threat detection and sovereign data services to enhance nation...
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RemotePass Debuts 'Ask AI': World's First HR AI for Leaders
RemotePass has launched Ask AI, a tool enabling executives to securely query private HR and payroll data for faster, informed decisions without compromising sensitive information. The feature supports regional digital transformation goals by enhancing operational efficiency and productivity, addr...
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LNER Supply Chain Attack Exposes Customer Data
A supply chain attack via a third-party supplier exposed LNER customer data, including personal contact details and travel history, but no financial information was accessed. Security experts warn that the stolen data could be used for phishing or identity attacks, advising both organizations and...
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