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French organizers said “the summit aims at promoting an ambitious French and European AI strategy” as advances in the sector have been led by the U.S. and China.

A critical vulnerability found in Orthanc servers can pose a serious risk to medical data and healthcare operations.

Microsoft has added more Copilot consumer products to its bug bounty program and is offering higher rewards for medium-severity vulnerabilities.

HPE is notifying an unknown number of individuals that Russian hackers accessed their personal information in a December 2023 attack.

Evan Light was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for hacking an investment holdings company and stealing $37 million in cryptocurrency.

Memorial Hospital and Manor says 120,000 people had their personal information stolen in a November 2024 ransomware attack.

News analysis: The big AI platforms are emerging as frontline early warning systems, detecting nation-state hackers at the outset of their campaigns. Can this help save the threat intel industry?

SolarWinds will become a privately held company following its acquisition by Turn/River Capital for $4.4 billion in cash. 

ThreatMate has raised $3.2 million in seed funding for its AI-powered attack surface management solution for MSPs.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: NanoLock Security ceases operations, NSO publishes transparency report, cybersecurity salaries data.  

Hospital Sisters Health System says the personal information of 883,000 individuals was compromised in a 2023 crippling cyberattack.

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The City of Phoenix has promoted Mitch Kohlbecker to the role of Chief Information Security Officer.

Gigamon has promoted Tony Jarjoura to CFO and Ram Bhide has been hired as Senior VP of engineering.

Cloud security firm Mitiga has appointed Charlie Thomas as Chief Executive Officer.

Cynet announced the appointment of Jason Magee as Chief Executive Officer.

Ajay Garg has joined Saviynt as Chief Development Officer.

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News analysis: The big AI platforms are emerging as frontline early warning systems, detecting nation-state hackers at the outset of their campaigns. Can this help save the threat intel industry?

Turn/River Capital acquires SolarWinds Turn/River Capital acquires SolarWinds

SolarWinds will become a privately held company following its acquisition by Turn/River Capital for $4.4 billion in cash. 

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Hospital Sisters Health System says the personal information of 883,000 individuals was compromised in a 2023 crippling cyberattack.

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A bipartisan duo in the the U.S. House is proposing legislation to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from federal devices.

Spanish authorities have arrested an individual who allegedly hacked several high-profile organizations, including NATO and the US army.

David Kennedy is a hacker. There is no doubt about that. He has qualities common among hackers, but also many differences.

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Supercomputer maker, Cray Inc., today announced that the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) awarded the company a contract to build a massive supercomputer for the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project.

Red Hat Partners with SAIC to Deliver Open Source Cloud Computing Solutions for U.S. Department of DefenseThe U.S. Department of Defense will soon be running more projects on open source cloud computing technologies, thanks to a partnership between Red Hat and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a technology contractor with many government and defense agency customers.

Today IBM launched a cloud-based mobile security offering designed to help organizations better secure smartphones and tablet devices in the workplace and protect against the latest mobile threats.The new service, “IBM Hosted Mobile Device Security Management,” utilizes the Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite from Juniper Networks as the underlying protection and device management technology.

Earlier this week, the Steam user forums, where gaming fans gather to discuss a wide range of titles from Left 4 Dead to Call of Duty, in addition to the Steam platform itself was defaced, causing some to fear the worst. On Thursday, Valve – the software company behind Steam and several popular games – confirmed those fears.

DARPA Seeks Stronger Authentication Beyond Passwords by Making Computers Adapt to HumansThe U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is asking for help designing a new approach to authentication.

Estonian Cybercrime Group Infected More Than 4M Computers with DNS Changing Malware The FBI and international authorities have disrupted a massive cybercrime scheme that infected more than four million computers with malware, and generated an estimated $14 million for a group of cybercriminals over a period of several years.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced this week that it would be offering Chip and PIN technology (also known as EMV) in corporate cards for U.S. international travelers.A Bank of America spokesperson told SecurityWeek that the credit cards would be offered to any its large corporate/commercial credit card customers who travel outside the U.S. on business. The program is not available for debit cards.

Shares of Imperva (NYSE:IMPV) jumped nearly 40 percent today as the data security firm made its debut as a public company, opening at $23 a share and topping $25 during trading.

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