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Halo Security announced platform enhancements designed to give security teams flexibility and control within the platform. The new features include custom dashboards, configurable reports, and improved automation capabilities that give organizations better control over how they visualize and manage their exposure data. “No two organizations are the same, and different team members face different challenges,” said Lisa Dowling, CEO of Halo Security. “A vulnerability analyst needs different insights than a compliance manager, and a CISO requires different views than a security specialist. These updates give every team member the ability to create personalized dashboards and reports that make them more…

Workday, a leading provider of human resources and financial management software, has confirmed that it fell victim to a data breach stemming from a social engineering attack targeting a third-party Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. According to the company, the breach did not impact its customer tenants or the secure data therein; instead, the compromised system contained primarily “commonly available business contact information,” including names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Threat actors initiated the breach through a coordinated social engineering campaign. They reached out to Workday employees via SMS or phone calls, impersonating internal HR or IT personnel. These attackers…

If you’re an industrious, persistent, English-speaking bad actor with a documented expertise in AI and a penchant for wreaking havoc on business, government and infrastructure, please apply within.Or so it goes on the dark web, where the “economy” is apparently booming and recruiters are pulling out all the stops to lure the best and brightest tech miscreants. In just seven months, the number of recruitment and self-promotion posts on cybercriminal forums like “Exploit” and “RAMP” has already reached last year’s number (which was already double the number recorded in 2023), according to research from Reliaquest.I think it is fair to…

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) on Wednesday announced plans to acquire Onum, a Spanish startup that provides real-time telemetry pipeline technology. The cybersecurity giant says the acquisition will bring valuable technology to enhance CrowdStrike’s Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. “Onum is both a pipeline and a filter, which will stream high-quality, filtered data directly into the platform to drive autonomous cybersecurity at scale,” said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. “This is how we stop breaches at the speed of AI while giving customers complete control over their entire data ecosystem – well beyond cybersecurity.” Onum is built on a stateless, in-memory architecture,…

Dutch intelligence warn that China-linked APT Salt Typhoon targeted local critical infrastructure Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2025 Dutch intelligence reports Chinese cyber spies (Salt Typhoon, RedMike) targeted the Netherlands, hitting critical infrastructure. The Dutch intelligence and security services MIVD and AIVD say Chinese cyber spies linked to Salt Typhoon (RedMike) targeted the Netherlands in a campaign hitting global critical infrastructure. In late 2024, a large-scale Chinese cyberespionage campaign targeting global telecoms was exposed and attributed by the US to state-backed group Salt Typhoon. In December 2024, President Biden’s deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger said that China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon breached…

The internet we know is broken—its centralized design has enabled mass data breaches, corporate surveillance, and government censorship. This article explores how decentralization, through blockchain, peer-to-peer networks, and projects like Spacecoin, could redefine global accessibility and free speech. While decentralization promises resilience, privacy, and digital self-governance, it also raises new challenges of misinformation and inequality. The future of the web lies not just in new technology but in reimagining power, control, and trust at a global scale.Read All

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two individuals and two companies associated with North Korean IT worker schemes that operate at the expense of American organizations. These schemes involve placing in U.S. firms skilled tech workers with stolen or fabricated identities and using so-called “laptop farms” to hide the true location of the employees. The workers funnel their earnings to the DPRK regime to fund the regime’s weapons program. They also often steal sensitive data or plant malware to create disruption when their cover is blown. In the context of cracking down on these operations, U.S. authorities have…

To get the most out of this tutorial, you should already have a solid understanding of how linear regression works and the assumptions behind it. You should also be aware that, in practice, multicollinearity is addressed using the Variance Inflation Factor (VIF). In addition, you need to understand what prediction risk means, and be familiar with the basics of Python as well as its core functions. At the end of this article, you will find the code for the stepwise selection procedure used here. The implementation follows two key principles: orthogonality and Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY), ensuring clean, modular, and…

Keeper Security has announced the release of biometric login using FIDO2/WebAuthn passkeys on the Chrome/Edge browser extension and Keeper Commander CLI. This update, the first of its kind in the industry, enables users to securely access their Keeper Vault with passkeys protected by biometrics or PINs across multiple platforms, including Windows devices via Windows Hello and Mac devices using Touch ID – replacing the need to type passwords. Biometric information never leaves the user’s device and is never transmitted to or accessible by Keeper, ensuring complete privacy. Customers are not required to install a companion application, simplifying the user experience and…