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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Capital One hacker’s sentence reversed, Google patches critical Chrome vulnerability, the story of an Expat flaw. 

The Cloak ransomware group has claimed responsibility for a February cyberattack on Virginia Attorney General’s Office.

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Cato Networks discovers a new LLM jailbreak technique that relies on creating a fictional world to bypass a model’s security controls.

The FishMonger APT group, a subdivision of Chinese cybersecurity firm I-Soon, compromised seven organizations in a 2022 campaign.

Industry professionals comment on Google acquiring cloud security giant Wiz for $32 billion in cash.

The Hellcat ransomware group claims to have stolen tens of gigabytes of data from Ascom and Jaguar Land Rover.

Former NFL and University of Michigan assistant football coach Matt Weiss hacked into the computer accounts of thousands of college athletes seeking intimate photos and videos.

More details have come to light on the recent supply chain attack targeting GitHub Actions, including its root cause.

Analysis reveals a 140% increase in browser phishing, including a 130% increase in zero-hour phishing attacks.

Real-time event and risk detection firm Dataminr has raised $85 million from NightDragon and HSBC to accelerate AI development.

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Life360 has appointed Vari Bindra, former Amazon cybersecurity lead, as Chief Information Security Officer.

Forcepoint has appointed Guy Shamilov as CISO, Bakshi Kohli as CTO and Naveen Palavalli as CPO and CMO.

Paul Calatayud has been named CISO of developer security posture management firm Archipelo.

Cyber readiness and response firm Sygnia has appointed Avi Golan as its new CEO.

Cybersecurity firm Absolute Security announced Harold Rivas as its new CISO.

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More details have come to light on the recent supply chain attack targeting GitHub Actions, including its root cause.

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Attacks involving Paragon’s Graphite spyware involved a WhatsApp zero-day that could be exploited without any user interaction.

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A long-running campaign phishing for credentials through scareware recently switched to targeting macOS users.

Google has confirmed reports that it’s buying cloud security giant Wiz and says it’s prepared to pay $32 billion in cash.

A year-old vulnerability in a third-party ChatGPT tool is being exploited against financial entities and US government organizations.

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iPads and other tablet devices, combined with a soft economy, seem to be having an affect on the global PC Market. According to a research report from IDC, the worldwide PC market continued to slow in the fourth quarter of 2010, yet total shipments in Q4 were the largest ever.

Today at BlackBerry DEVCON Asia, Research In Motion launched the beta version of the BlackBerry WebWorks™ SDK for Tablet OS as well as new services and developer tools for BlackBerry devices. New features include access to core functionality in the BlackBerry PlayBook, as well as extensibility and robust security.

In a recent survey, 90 percent of U.S. and UK IT managers said they are planning to implement new mobile applications this year, with half saying that successfully managing mobile applications tops their priority list.

The AMBER Alert program, credited with the safe recovery of 525 children across the country, has a new ally: Facebook. And finally Facebook gets some good press.

Study from Cisco Highlights Surprising Attitudes on Compliance, Standards Adoption, and Challenges Meeting PCI DSS RequirementsSeventy percent of IT decision makers feel that their organization is more secure than it would be if PCI compliance were not required. That’s according to a recent survey of 500 IT decision-makers to uncover their thoughts on PCI Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).

Smart phones sales exploding worldwide. Gartner research has shown that smart phone sales in 2010 Q3 accounted for nearly 20% of all mobile device sales, with a growth of nearly 100% since the same quarter the previous year. This number is sure to rise.

RackSpace and Akamai Partner to Provide Hosting, Cloud computing, Content and Application Delivery Services, in a one-stop cloudHosting giant RackSpace, and Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies, announced a partnership today that will bring Akamai’s web acceleration and cloud optimization services to RackSpace customers.

Growth in Mobile Broadband Globally Highlights Need for Increased Protection of Mobile DevicesDuring the course of 2010, mobile broadband subscriptions reached half-a-billion globally. Ericsson estimates that number to double before the end of 2011. The Asia Pacific region is expected to have the largest number of subscriptions with about 400 million, followed by North America and Western Europe with more than 200 million subscriptions each.

Blue Coat Systems today introduced Blue Coat ProxyOne, a Web security appliance that brings the same enterprise-class Web security used by FORTUNE 500 companies to smaller organizations at an affordable price point.

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Google has integrated OSV-SCALIBR features into OSV-Scanner, its free vulnerability scanner for open source developers.

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