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Chinese Android phones shipped with malware-laced WhatsApp, Telegram apps

Security Affairs

Cheap Chinese Android phones ship with trojanized WhatsApp and Telegram clones hiding crypto clippers, active since June 2024. Since June 2024, Doctor Web researchers found cheap Android phones preloaded with fake WhatsApp and Telegram apps designed to steal crypto via clipping. These clippers swap copied wallet addresses with the attackers own. The campaign targeted low-end phones mimicking famous models, using altered system info to trick users.

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News alert: SquareX to present on uncovering data splicing attacks at BSides San Francisco 2025

The Last Watchdog

Palo Alto, Calif, Apr. 16, 2025, CyberNewswire — SquareX researchers Jeswin Mathai and Audrey Adeline will be disclosing a new class of data exfiltration techniques at BSides San Francisco 2025. Titled Data Splicing Attacks: Breaking Enterprise DLP from the Inside Out , the talk will demonstrate multiple data splicing techniques that will allow attackers to exfiltrate any sensitive file or clipboard data, completely bypassing major Data Loss Protection (DLP) vendors listed by Gartner by ex

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Going to InfoNEXT? ARMA Has a Deal for You

Weissman's World

If youre keeping score at home, you may remember that Im speaking at InfoNEXT 2025 in a couple of weeks moderating whats shaping up to be a great panel on the subject of Information Governance and Business Resiliency. I certainly hope Ill see you there. But if youre on the fence about whether to… Read More » Going to InfoNEXT? ARMA Has a Deal for You The post Going to InfoNEXT?

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Rolling Up Our Sleeves: Implementation Reflections from the AIIM Global Summit

AIIM

The AI+IM Global Summit, held March 31 to April 2 in Atlanta, focused on how artificial intelligence is being integrated with information management, governance, and process automation. AIIM brings together professionals responsible for building, implementing, and governing systems that manage enterprise content, drive decisions, and automate complex workflows.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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Google is talking to dolphins using Pixel phones and AI - and the video is delightful

Collaboration 2.0

How Pixel phones are helping researchers decipher dolphin communication.

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Good Governance is an Art

Weissman's World

Establishing and maintaining good data and information governance is a lot more art than science. While there is a science of sorts behind the broadstrokes, theres an art to addressing the particulars, which involves sleuthing out the issues that reflect the realities of your circumstances issues that most people never even think about. Issues… Read More » Good Governance is an Art The post Good Governance is an Art appeared first on Holly Group.

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My Take: Is Amazon’s Alexa+ a Gutenberg moment — or a corporate rerun of history’s greatest co-opt?

The Last Watchdog

Last Friday morning, April 11, I was making my way home from NTT Researchs Upgrade 2025 innovation conference in San Francisco, when it struck me that were at a watershed moment. I was reflecting on NTTs newly launched Physics of Artificial Intelligence Lab when a GeekWire article crossed my LinkedIn feed, touting a seemingly parallel initiative by Amazon.

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EU Commission Publishes AI Continent Action Plan and Seeks Input

Data Matters

On April 9, 2025 the European Commission adopted a communication on the so-called AI Continent Action Plan - its strategy to shape the next phase of AI development in Europe, with consultation to follow. The Commissions declared objective is to transform the EU into a global leader in AI by fostering innovation, ensuring trustworthy AI, and enhancing competitiveness while safeguarding democratic values and cultural diversity.

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5 things to do with the Linux terminal on your Android phone - including my favorite

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Google launched a Linux terminal app for Android that gives you full command-line access. Here's what you can do with it.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Government contractor Conduent disclosed a data breach

Security Affairs

The business services provider Conduent told the SEC a January cyberattack exposed personal data, including names and Social Security numbers. The business services provider Conduent revealed that personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, was stolen in a January cyberattack. In January, Conduent confirmed a cyberattack caused service disruptions after agencies in multiple US states reported outages.

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Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins

WIRED Threat Level

Though the exact details of the situation have not been confirmed, community infighting seems to have spilled out in a breach of the notorious image board.

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MY TAKE: The CVE program crisis isn’t over — it’s a wake-up call for cybersecurity’s supply chain

The Last Watchdog

Just hours before it was set to expire on April 16, the federal contract funding MITREs stewardship of the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) program was given a temporary extension by CISA. Related: Brian Krebs’ take on MITRE funding expiring This averted an immediate shutdown, but it didnt solve the underlying problem. Far from it. The system that underpins vulnerability disclosurethe nervous system of cybersecurity risk managementis showing signs of structural fatigue.

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CVE Program Almost Unfunded

Schneier on Security

Mitre’s CVE’s program—which provides common naming and other informational resources about cybersecurity vulnerabilities—was about to be cancelled , as the US Department of Homeland Security failed to renew the contact. It was funded for eleven more months at the last minute. This is a big deal. The CVE program is one of those pieces of common infrastructure that everyone benefits from.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Microsoft is pushing its controversial Recall feature to Windows Insiders

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With Recall now in preview mode for Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft is testing the waters for an official release.

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Symbolic Link trick lets attackers bypass FortiGate patches, Fortinet warns

Security Affairs

Fortinet warns attackers can keep read-only access to FortiGate devices even after the original vulnerability is patched. Fortinet warns that threat actors can retain read-only access to FortiGate devices even after the original vulnerability used for the breach has been patched. The cybersecurity firm revealed that attackers exploited known FortiGate flaws like CVE-2022-42475 , CVE-2023-27997 , and CVE-2024-21762 to gain persistent read-only access via a symlink in SSL-VPN language folders. 

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Homeland Security Email Tells a US Citizen to 'Immediately' Self-Deport

WIRED Threat Level

An email sent by the Department of Homeland Security instructs people in the US on a temporary legal status to leave the country. But who the email actually applies toand who actually received itis far from clear.

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Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records

The Guardian Data Protection

Medical information will be available from UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies security fears Researchers from China are to be allowed access to half a million UK GP records despite western intelligence agencies fears about the authoritarian regime amassing health data, the Guardian can reveal. Preparations are under way to transfer the records to UK Biobank, a research hub that holds detailed medical information donated by 500,000 volunteers.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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AI Vulnerability Finding

Schneier on Security

Microsoft is reporting that its AI systems are able to find new vulnerabilities in source code: Microsoft discovered eleven vulnerabilities in GRUB2, including integer and buffer overflows in filesystem parsers, command flaws, and a side-channel in cryptographic comparison. Additionally, 9 buffer overflows in parsing SquashFS, EXT4, CramFS, JFFS2, and symlinks were discovered in U-Boot and Barebox, which require physical access to exploit.

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New White House tariff exemptions for electronics could offer temporary break for tech

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The White House announced a temporary exemption for smartphones, laptops, and other consumer electronics from the steep tariffs that would hike up prices for many products.

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Malicious NPM packages target PayPal users

Security Affairs

Threat actors deploy malicious NPM packages to steal PayPal credentials and hijack cryptocurrency transfers. Fortinetresearchers discovered multiple malicious NPM packages that are used to target PayPal users. The packages were uploaded to the repository in early March by a threat actor known as tommyboy_h1 and tommyboy_h2 , and were used to steal PayPal credentials and hijack cryptocurrency transfers. “Using PayPal-related names helps these malicious packages avoid detection, making it ea

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‘Stupid and Dangerous’: CISA Funding Chaos Threatens Essential Cybersecurity Program

WIRED Threat Level

The CVE Program is the primary way software vulnerabilities are tracked. Its long-term future remains in limbo even after a last-minute renewal of the US government contract that funds it.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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News alert: AcceleTrex unveils referral exchange that turns trusted conversations into scalable growth

The Last Watchdog

Miami, FL, Apr. 14, 2025Today, AcceleTrex Corporation officially emerged from stealth, unveiling a first-of-its-kind platform that transforms expert referrals into a powerful growth engine for innovators. Grounded in the belief that genuine relationships drive meaningful results, AcceleTrex combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Actual Intelligence the practical expertise of Market Experts to provide genuine Actionable Intelligence that accelerates smarter solutions.

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China Sort of Admits to Being Behind Volt Typhoon

Schneier on Security

The Wall Street Journal has the story : Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring how hostilities between the two superpowers are continuing to escalate. The Chinese delegation linked years of intrusions into computer networks at U.S. ports, water utilities, airports and other targets, to increasing U.S. policy support for Taiwa

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I found a budget Motorola with a better battery than smartphones twice the price

Collaboration 2.0

The Moto G (2025) defies budget phone expectations with its impressive multi-day battery life and a surprisingly capable camera.

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Palo Alto warns of brute-force login attempts on PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways indicating possible upcoming attacks

Security Affairs

Experts warn of brute-force login attempts on PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways following increased scanning activity on its devices. Palo Alto Networks reports brute-force login attempts on PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways. The security firm pointed out that no known vulnerability has been exploited, but monitoring and analysis continue. “Our teams are observing evidence of activity consistent with password-related attacks, such as brute-force login attempts, which does not indicate exploitation

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Brass Typhoon: The Chinese Hacking Group Lurking in the Shadows

WIRED Threat Level

Though less well-known than groups like Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon, Brass Typhoon, or APT 41, is an infamous, longtime espionage actor that foreshadowed recent telecom hacks.

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Financial Entities in the EU: Time to Register Your ICT Third-Party Service Providers under DORA

Data Matters

The European Unions ( EU ) Digital Operational Resilience Act ( DORA ) became effective on 17 January 2025. Since then, financial entities (such as banks, insurance companies and investment firms) and their ICT third-party service providers operating in the EU have been - directly or indirectly - subject to the new regime. One of the first key DORA compliance deadlines, for financial entities to register their ICT service providers with competent EU Member State authorities, is coming into effec

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Attackers Maintaining Access to Fully Patched Fortinet Gear

Data Breach Today

Symbolic Links Planted by Attackers Survived Patching, Provide Read-Only Access Attackers have been using a new type of post-exploitation technique to maintain remote access to hacked Fortinet FortiGuard devices - even if they had the latest patches - by dropping symbolic links in the device's filesystem designed to survive the patching process, the vendor has warned.

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