by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 26, 2025 | IT Security
Barring a last-minute deal, the US federal government would shut down on Wednesday, October 1, and the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would lapse at the same time, threatening what many consider a critical plank of US cybersecurity policy. The CISA Act of...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 26, 2025 | IT Security
Microsoft has begun testing a new AI-powered feature in Microsoft Photos, designed to categorize photos automatically on Windows 11 systems. Dubbed Auto-Categorization, it is currently limited to sorting screenshots, receipts, identity documents, and notes,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 26, 2025 | IT Security
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order approving a plan to restructure TikTok operations in the country to address national security concerns. TikTok is a massively popular short-form video platform owned by Chinese firm ByteDance. The social media...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 26, 2025 | IT Security
Microsoft is investigating a known issue that triggers Outlook errors when opening encrypted emails sent from other organizations. According to a recently published support document, this issue affects users in all Office channels who are using the classic Outlook...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 26, 2025 | IT Security
The long-running XCSSET malware strain has evolved again, with Microsoft warning of a new macOS variant that expands its bag of tricks while continuing to target developers. Redmond’s threat hunters said the latest version of XCSSET, which has been circulating...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 26, 2025 | IT Security
Salesforce is facing a wave of lawsuits in the wake of a cyberattack that exposed customer data. The claims were all filed in Northern California, where Salesforce is headquartered, over the past five weeks and suggest that the SaaS CRM vendor fell short on security....
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 26, 2025 | IT Security
Security researchers have confirmed that threat actors have exploited the maximum-severity vulnerability affecting Fortra’s GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT), and chastised the vendor for a lack of transparency. The experts over at watchTowr, never ones to...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 26, 2025 | IT Security
Organizations increasingly think it’s a great idea, even an absolute necessity, to integrate artificial intelligence into their operations. And it can be both. But many organizations don’t understand the cybersecurity risks involved with AI, and they don’t realize how...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 26, 2025 | IT Security
The UK’s data protection watchdog fined two Brit businesses with offshore call centers £550,000 (c $735,000) over illegal automated marketing calls. Both companies equipped their offshored call handlers with pre-recorded messages to select when targeting elderly...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 25, 2025 | IT Security
Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports that a new variant of the XCSSET macOS malware has been detected in limited attacks, incorporating several new features, including enhanced browser targeting, clipboard hijacking, and improved persistence mechanisms. XCSSET is a...
