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  • ISC2 Think Tank: The Evolution of Email Threats: How Social Engineering is Outsmarting Traditional Defenses

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    Source URL: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/5385/638538 Source: ISC2 Think Tank Title: The Evolution of Email Threats: How Social Engineering is Outsmarting Traditional Defenses Feedly Summary: A staggering 74% of all breaches involve the human element, proving that cybercriminals are relentlessly exploiting users through sophisticated email-based social engineering attacks. While organizations have invested in email authentication, advanced threat detection,…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Year in Review: Key vulnerabilities, tools, and shifts in attacker email tactics

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/year-in-review-key-vulnerabilities-tools-and-shifts-in-attacker-email-tactics/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Year in Review: Key vulnerabilities, tools, and shifts in attacker email tactics Feedly Summary: From Talos’ 2024 Year in Review, here are some findings from the top targeted network device vulnerabilities. We also explore how threat actors are moving away from time sensitive lures in their emails.…

  • Schneier on Security: Arguing Against CALEA

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/arguing-against-calea.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Arguing Against CALEA Feedly Summary: At a Congressional hearing earlier this week, Matt Blaze made the point that CALEA, the 1994 law that forces telecoms to make phone calls wiretappable, is outdated in today’s threat environment and should be rethought: In other words, while the legally-mandated CALEA…

  • Cloud Blog: Suspected China-Nexus Threat Actor Actively Exploiting Critical Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457)

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-exploiting-critical-ivanti-vulnerability/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Suspected China-Nexus Threat Actor Actively Exploiting Critical Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457) Feedly Summary: Written by: John Wolfram, Michael Edie, Jacob Thompson, Matt Lin, Josh Murchie On Thursday, April 3, 2025, Ivanti disclosed a critical security vulnerability, CVE-2025-22457, impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (“ICS”) VPN appliances version 22.7R2.5 and…

  • The Register: Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/unknown_scanners_probing_juniper_paloalto/ Source: The Register Title: Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products? Feedly Summary: Espionage? Botnets? Trying to exploit a zero-day? Someone or something is probing devices made by Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks, and researchers think it could be evidence of espionage attempts, attempts to build a botnet,…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/04/01/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-24813 Apache Tomcat Path Equivalence Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Transforming public sector security operations in the AI era

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/01/transforming-public-sector-security-operations-in-the-ai-era/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Transforming public sector security operations in the AI era Feedly Summary: Read how Microsoft’s unified security operations platform can use generative AI to transform cybersecurity for the public sector. The post Transforming public sector security operations in the AI era appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog. AI…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Plans To Release a New ‘Open’ AI Language Model In the Coming Months

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/31/203249/openai-plans-to-release-a-new-open-ai-language-model-in-the-coming-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Plans To Release a New ‘Open’ AI Language Model In the Coming Months Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI is set to release a new open-weight language model, marking its first launch since GPT-2, and is actively seeking feedback from a diverse community to guide…