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In partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Orlando International Airport will be welcoming travelers on select flights through a new initiative, Enhanced Passenger Processing (EPP), according to a press release on May 7. EPP is designed to use biometric facial comparison for identity verification to increase CBP operational efficiency while enhancing the traveler experience and building toward a truly seamless journey. The process allows CBP to focus on the traveler, reducing the burden of administrative tasks. “Technology is driving the way for more efficient passenger operations,” said Lance Lyttle, Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority…

Spot Bitcoin ETFs slowed down between May 6 and May 12, with modest activity on Monday reflecting a calmer start to the week.Daily net flows remained muted after a large $85.7 million outflow on May 6, culminating in a marginal inflow of just $5.2 million on May 12. Bitcoin’s price, on the other hand, increased from $96,825 on May 6 to $104,405 by May 12.Table showing spot Bitcoin ETF flows from Apr. 24 to May 12, 2025 (Source: Farside)While the drop in inflows might appear concerning, the broader context points to a healthy market pause rather than a deterioration in…

The integration of GenAI agents into enterprise environments is no longer hypothetical, it’s happening now and fast. At the heart of this shift is Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), a breakthrough standard that allows LLM models to interact with external tools and data systems with unprecedented flexibility.  But this leap forward brings with it a less talked-about and critically important fact – every new agent and connection represents a potential entry point for cybercriminals. Cybersecurity leaders must quickly adapt to this new reality, where securing the agent layer becomes just as essential as securing the underlying infrastructure. Understanding MCP and its Significance MCP…

In this Help Net Security interview, Pritesh Parekh, VP, CISO at PagerDuty talks about how CISOs can change perceptions of their role, build influence across the organization, communicate risk in business terms, and use automation to support business goals. What do business leaders most often misunderstand about the CISO’s role, and how can security leaders correct those perceptions? Too often, business leaders view cybersecurity solely as a defensive function that can slow innovation when in reality, it’s constantly being shaped by evolving technology and the shifting technology landscape. Security had to evolve as the world grew cloud-based, and modern security…

Apple released security updates to fix multiple flaws in iOS and macOS Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2025 Apple released security updates to address easily exploitable vulnerabilities impacting iOS and macOS devices. Apple released urgent iOS and macOS security updates to patch critical flaws that could allow attackers to execute malicious code just by opening a crafted image, video, or website: AppleJPEG CVE-2025-31251 – Processing a maliciously crafted media file may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory; CoreMedia CVE-2025-31233 – Processing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory ImageIO CVE-2025-31226…

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | CJ Cox talks about the highs, lows, hows and why’s of security policy. // Show Notes Why are we doing this? Do you hate your audience? GDPR was bad enough. My Methodology The Rant Cross between Bob Cat Goldthwaite and Dennis Miller Policy is the foundation to the foundation Don’t we all just love Policy If I’m going to do this, I’m going to do this right Law and Policy 16th street mall Bad Policy Gov’t 1,000s of pages, Shelf-ware Don’t let the Tail Wag…

Roblox hit with class action over alleged secret tracking of kids’ data; lawsuit claims privacy law violations and unauthorized data sharing. Roblox, a platform known for its popularity among children and teens, is now the focus of a class action lawsuit that accuses the company of covertly harvesting data from its youngest users. Filed in a California federal court by plaintiffs Michael and Salena Garcia, the suit claims Roblox has been quietly monitoring players without proper consent. According to the 45-page complaint, Roblox uses hidden tracking tools to collect a wide range of data, from keystrokes and chat messages to…

Recent large language models (LLMs) — such as OpenAI’s o1/o3, DeepSeek’s R1 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 — demonstrate that allowing the model to think deeper and longer at test time can significantly enhance model’s reasoning capability. The core approach underlying their deep thinking capability is called chain-of-thought (CoT), where the model iteratively generates intermediate reasoning steps and appends them to the current context until producing the final answer. However, as tasks become increasingly complex, the steps needed to solve them grow dramatically. For instance, consider solving NP-hard problems using CoT — the reasoning trace would inevitably span exponential steps, assuming…

In this digital age, photos have become one of the most shared and stored types of content online. Whether it’s a picture shared on social media, an image saved to a cloud service, or even photos attached to an email, our personal images are all over the internet. While the convenience of online photo storage can’t be overstated, it also raises significant privacy concerns that many users might overlook. Let’s take a closer look at how photos stored online can potentially compromise your privacy and what you can do to protect your data.1. Data Breaches and Hacks One of the…