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The European Commission has approved the 2025-2027 Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) work program, allocating €1.3 billion to advance key technologies essential for the EU’s future and technological sovereignty. DIGITAL is an EU funding initiative designed to bring digital technology closer to businesses, citizens, and public administrations. Digital technology is essential for communication, work, science, and tackling environmental challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted Europe’s reliance on external systems, while Russia’s war against Ukraine exposed vulnerabilities in digital supply chains. To ensure security and self-sufficiency, the EU must invest in cybersecurity and strengthen its digital infrastructure. With a total budget exceeding €8.1…
U.S. President Donald Trump announced in a Presidential document that he has extended the national emergency concerning ongoing malicious cyber activities against the country for another year. The national emergency was first issued in April 2015 to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the U.S., constituted by the increasing prevalence and severity of malicious cyber-enabled activities originating from or directed by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the country. Issued by former President Barack Obama, the Executive Order 13694 identified “that the increasing prevalence and severity of…
senhasegura, a globally recognized leader in Privileged Access Management (PAM), announces its evolution into Segura, marking a new chapter for the company and its mission to deliver futureproof identity security. Founded in Brazil in 2009, senhasegura quickly earned international recognition as one of the leading providers of PAM solutions. Throughout its journey, thecompany has consistently been featured in top analyst reports, including the Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave, and consistently praised for itsinnovation, usability, and customer-centric approach. senhasegura has been named Customers’ Choice four times in the Gartner Voice of the Customer Report, and is frequently recognized by leading…
In this Black Hills Information Security (BHIS) webcast, we explore using GoLang to author malware with embedded shellcode. GoLang is a Google-authored modern successor language to C/C++. It is multi-platform, high performance, multi-threaded, and unlike C/C++ includes garbage collection! It has the advantage of compiling to native machine code, unlike .NET C# which is dependent on the common language runtime, and easily reversible. We explore how to execute Windows shellcode with GoLang in the same process thread space, and then also explore one process injection method. If you are a penetration tester looking to expand your malware authoring skills, a…
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne has launched a new online tool that will help businesses and federal institutions that experience a privacy breach to assess whether the breach is likely to create a real risk of significant harm to individuals. The privacy breach risk self-assessment tool is a convenient web-based application that guides users through a series of questions to assess the sensitivity of personal information that is involved in a data breach, and the probability that it will be misused. The results provided through this online tool will help organizations to conduct a risk assessment following a data…
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 39 | Security Affairs newsletter Round 517 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION | Sam’s Club Investigates Alleged Cl0p Ransomware Breach | FBI and DOJ seize $8.2 Million in romance baiting crypto fraud scheme | Experts warn of the new sophisticate Crocodilus mobile banking Trojan | Crooks are reviving the Grandoreiro banking trojan | Russian authorities arrest three suspects behind Mamont Android banking trojan | Mozilla fixed critical Firefox vulnerability CVE-2025-2857 | U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium Mojo flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog | Crooks target DeepSeek users with fake sponsored Google ads…
Are you worried that Spectrum is throttling your bandwidth? You’re not alone. Although the FCC is trying to rekindle net neutrality rules that prevent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from slowing down their customers’ connection speeds when accessing particular content, change is slow and heavily resisted. In the meantime, a VPN for Spectrum can help users by masking the online content being accessed, thus preventing the ISP from discriminating against it. Users can connect to a server anywhere the VPN provider is present. The chosen server acts as an intermediary between the user’s device and the internet, making it look like…
Microsoft has removed the ‘BypassNRO.cmd’ script from Windows 11 preview builds, which allowed users to bypass the requirement to use a Microsoft Account when installing the operating system. This change was introduced in the latest Windows 11 Insider Dev preview build, which means it will likely be coming to production builds. “We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11,” reads the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5516 release notes. “This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.” Since the release of Windows 11, Microsoft has…
The following is a guest post from Justin Banon, Founder of Boson Protocol.The next wave of technological disruption is poised to transform luxury as we know it. While the industry has cautiously embraced digital transformation through e-commerce platforms and NFT experiments, the convergence of AI agents and decentralized commerce promises to fundamentally reshape not just how luxury goods are discovered, authenticated, and traded, but how customers interact with brands entirely.We are witnessing the sunset of the website era. Just as mobile apps disrupted desktop browsing, AI agents will soon become the primary interface through which consumers engage with luxury brands.…