#cybersecurity

#cybersecurity

The spammers are spoofing our email address - this means they are falsely setting GSMArena.com as the sender of the email. Specifically, it looks like the email came from tpjdlgcj@gsmarena.com, but that's not an active account on our server (that random jumble of letters is clearly randomly generated). Instead the emails are coming from a server owned by Microsoft (52.103.140.27) and one owned by Oracle (92.5.13.127), neither of which is part of our infrastructure.

AI on the dark side has done three things particularly well: speed, scale, and sophistication. As a result, the time between a successful intrusion and the actual theft of data has decreased significantly over the past three years. Whereas three years ago the average period was nine days, it is now one day. The fastest case documented by Palo Alto Networks was even 72 minutes.

The country needs an NSA director with experience in U.S. signals intelligence activities around the world. General Rudd does not have that experience. This statement from Sen. Ron Wyden expressed his primary concern about the nominee's qualifications for the position.

I see a lot of people referring to Firewalla hardware as a firewall or security tool, and while that's correct, it also offers so much more. Think of the tech as having your very own personal network administrator, making even complex networking tasks as simple as flicking a virtual switch.

Using the tools they administer, popular websites such as auction and sales portals, IT domains, hosting services, and accommodation booking services were attacked. The youths, aged between 12 and 16 at the time of the alleged offenses, all face charges related to selling DDoS tools in what police described as a purely profit-driven scheme.

How this proliferation occurred is unclear, but suggests an active market for 'second hand' zero-day exploits. Beyond these identified exploits, multiple threat actors have now acquired advanced exploitation techniques that can be re-used and modified with newly identified vulnerabilities.

Nobody really knows if their detection rules are silent because they were secure or because something got broken in the data plumbing a couple of months ago. Large companies rely on dozens of fragmented tools to detect threats, and those systems can quietly stop working effectively over time as they're updated and adjusted.

I got a rush from feeling challenged. The computer would say 'No', and I would think, 'Well, we'll see'. In his own words it was more a case of Rage Against the Machine than simply Stayin' Alive.

The security and resilience of 6G networks are critical aspects of that wider picture. 6G networks - both public and private - will come to play a vital role in the everyday life of people around the world, with much of our lives reliant on their efficient and secure operation.

Geopolitical and cyber convergence is real. Geopolitical developments will very likely influence the cyber threat landscape in 2026 and beyond. We can't just monitor our own systems and stay compliant with the latest compliance standards. This can have significant impact to you, your supply chain, and your interdependencies. Security is local but it's also worldwide.

Avisi Technologies develops nanotechnology-based ophthalmic devices to address vision loss from glaucoma and related eye conditions. Founded by Adarsh Battu, Brandon Kao, and Rui Jing Jiang in 2017, Avisi Technologies has now raised a total of $18.7M in total equity funding and is backed by Accanto Partners, Gemseki, Golden Seeds, Good Growth Capital, Life Sciences Greenhouse of Pennsylvania, MedVenture Partners, OneOneFive, Quaker Capital Investments, LLC, SBI US Gateway Fund, and Sherpa Healthcare Partners.

In the Oracle EBS hacking campaign, the Cl0p ransomware and extortion group exploited zero-day vulnerabilities to gain access to data stored by more than 100 organizations in the enterprise management software. Madison Square Garden (MSG), the world-famous arena located in New York City, was named by the hackers as a victim of the campaign in November 2025.

Calls where no one responds are rarely accidental. In many cases, they are automated reconnaissance events. Fraud operations run at industrial scale, and before they invest human effort in a target, they validate that a number is active and answered by a real person.

Peter Williams, a former executive at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris, was sentenced on Tuesday to 87 months in prison for leaking his former company's trade secrets in exchange for $1.3 million in crypto between 2022 and 2025. Williams sold the exploits to Operation Zero, which the U.S. government calls 'one of the world's most nefarious exploit brokers.'

Passwords get hacked all the time, but they can't be hacked if they don't exist...this allows a small team like 404 to spend less time managing security administration, and more time investing in bringing you stories you care about.

Headline numbers were solid: revenue grew 15% year-over-year to $2.59 billion, adjusted EPS of $1.03 beat expectations, and next-generation security ARR jumped 33% to $6.33 billion. But management trimmed its full-year profit outlook due to acquisition costs, and Q3 EPS guidance missed expectations, sending shares down 5-7% in after-hours trading.

Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat packers working for JBS Foods are paralyzed as an $11 million ransomware attack takes out their processing facilities. Some 2.2 million workers at Stop & Shop and Hannaford have their personal data exposed as the result of a cyberattack on parent company Ahold Delhaize USA. These scenarios, straight from a William Gibson novel, are becoming increasingly common in supply chains across the world.

Because of this massive shift, the pressure on business owners has never been higher. Consumers today have zero patience. If your mobile application is slow, or if your website lacks the features they want, they will instantly move to a competitor. To survive and grow, a modern business must be able to create and update its digital tools incredibly fast. However, rushing to build technology introduces a terrible risk: you might accidentally leave your digital doors wide open to criminals.

In an effort to transform this portfolio, the agency is launching a challenge to gather ideas from industry on how to move these old systems to cloud-native architectures and reduce its technical debt. According to a Tuesday notice on Sam.gov, the agency is forgoing a traditional acquisition in favor of a challenge-based approach. The multi-phase competition will allow the FAA to watch vendors perform, not just pitch.

On February 3rd, we identified evidence of a problem with our systems that allowed an unauthorized third party to access limited user data without permission, including email addresses, phone numbers, and other internal metadata,

"Deutsche Bahn has been and continues to be subject to attacks on its IT systems," the company said in an update posted hours after the initial service restoration. "The current attack is specifically targeted at DB and has occurred in waves. "The scale of the attack is considerable. Our defense mechanisms are working. We will not comment on speculation regarding the background of the attack."

Data scientists pore over data to tease out key insights. For example, they may gather data from a survey or by scraping the internet. They then develop algorithms and models to analyze data, helping their organizations craft effective business strategies. A bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics or computer science is often required for this role. As with many tech jobs, data scientists can work from almost anywhere, including home.