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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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News analysis: Google positions itself to compete with Microsoft for enterprise security dollars. How does this deal affect startup ecosystem?

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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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Symantec's New LogoSymantec today officially launched its new company logo. The company says that the new logo “symbolizes the company's focus on enabling confidence and ensuring customers have simple and secure access to their information from anywhere, seamlessly moving between their personal and professional lives.”

Situation Management Solution for Electric Utilities Improves Security Operations and ComplianceOne of the main challenges being faced by electric utilities in the United States today is ensuring effective security operations that can handle incidents in real time, with limited resources across hundreds of sites that are often equipped with thousands of monitored sensors and multiple disparate security and safety systems.

McAfee and Citrix Systems have delivered the first product of a joint collaboration announced earlier this year to make virtual desktop security simpler and more scalable for large enterprise deployments. Released today at the Citrix Synergy conference in Berlin, McAfee Management for Optimized Virtualized Environments AntiVirus (MOVE AV) has been specifically designed for Citrix XenDesktop, helping customers secure corporate data and applications delivered to virtual desktops running on servers in the datacenter.

Cisco ASA 5585-X Adaptive Security Appliance and AnyConnect 3.0 Bring Enhanced Security and Performance Features to the EnterpriseCisco announced new products and services this week across several elements of its “Borderless Network Architecture,” Cisco’s vision of connecting anyone, anywhere, on any device -- securely, reliably, and seamlessly.

A new report issued by Verizon this week on compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) reveals that only 22 percent of the organizations assessed were PCI compliant at the time of their initial examination. But compliance is worth the trouble. According to the report, organizations that suffer credit card data breaches are 50 percent less likely to be PCI compliant.

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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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