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DHS Warns Election Security Risks May Persist Into 2025

Data Breach Today

DHS Says Adversaries May Stoke Voter Fraud Fears Long After Election Day The latest Homeland Security threat assessment lists this year’s election cycle as a top concern for 2025 and a potential trigger for domestic terrorism.

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LW ROUNDTABLE — How 2024’s cyber threats will transform the security landscape in 2025

The Last Watchdog

Williams Brandon Williams , CTO, Conversant Group Predictions for 2025 point to attack speeds increasing by up to 100X, necessitating faster detection and response times. Raising security baselines across industries is essential, with risk mitigationnot acceptancebecoming the standard.

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Microsoft: Happy 2025. Here’s 161 Security Updates

Krebs on Security

Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three “zero-day” weaknesses that are already under active attack. Redmond’s inaugural Patch Tuesday of 2025 bundles more fixes than the company has shipped in one go since 2017.

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Forrester's 2025 Predictions: Gen AI Investments to Decline

Data Breach Today

Forrester's Cody Scott on Why 2025 Will Be Pivotal for Security Leaders Forrester's 2025 Predictions for Cybersecurity, Risk and Privacy report forecasts that security leaders will scale back generative AI investments by 10%.

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Cloud Security, APT Threats, AI Risks Loom Large in 2025

Data Breach Today

Google Mandiant's Jamie Collier on the Biggest Cloud Security Challenges To combat AI threats in 2025, security teams are set to enter the second phase of AI innovation in security by deploying semi-autonomous operations such as alert parsing, creation of high-priority item lists and risk remediation, said Jamie Collier, senior threat intelligence (..)

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National Vulnerability Backlog Could Surge to 30,000 by 2025

Data Breach Today

New Analysis Reveals Growing Crisis for the National Vulnerability Database A growing backlog at the National Institute of Standards and Technology National Vulnerability Database could surge to above 30,000 unanalyzed security flaws by the end of the year if the agency fails to significantly ramp up its processing rates, according to a new analysis (..)

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Breach Roundup: ICANN Warns.top Domain About Phishing

Data Breach Today

sanctions, Verizon settled on breaches, and Windows 10 security support will end in October 2025. Also: Russian DDoS Hacktivists; Verizon Settles With US FTC and Windows 10 This week, ICANN warned of phishing, BreachForums data was leaked, police arrested alleged pro-Russian hackers, the U.K

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