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In a co-ordinated international effort, the law enforcement agencies of 15 countries have made the holiday season a little less stressful for companies and consumers – by seizing control of some of the internet’s most popular DDoS-for-hire services. Operation PowerOFF has disrupted what was anticipated to be a surge of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the Christmas period by taking over two dozen “booter” or “stresser” websites offline. As Europol explains, every year the festive…

Sometimes enemies can be lifesavers. The $150m loan from Microsoft that rescued Apple from bankruptcy in 1997, for instance, is now the most widely read chapter of software folklore. Microsoft was under threat in the antitrust case and needed to show it wasn’t a greedy monopoly and that Apple was a credible rival; Apple, on the other hand, needed a lifeline — and cash — to survive. The rest may well be history but the…

With the rapid rise of AI, especially GenAI, clients are evaluating risks from partner or vendor use of AI. CIOs and organizations are advised to consider how these risks may impact their operations and security and create contractual terms to address them. Specific areas of concern for CIOs and IT organizations are how a vendor uses its data, whether its data will be used in training public models, how data is protected, data access, results…

In a world where technology increasingly shapes how cities manage safety and security, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is leading the way with its groundbreaking “Carpet CCTV” project. This ambitious initiative has revolutionized public safety by combining a massive surveillance network with advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, creating a system that shifts the focus from reactive responses to proactive prevention. Over the past four years, the scope of Kazakhstan’s surveillance infrastructure has expanded dramatically. The…

Three new mobile-only surveillance tools developed and used by state-sponsored organizations have been discovered by mobile security provider Lookout. These new tools include BoneSpy and PlainGnome which are Android surveillance tools developed by Gamaredon (aka Primitive Bear, Shuckworm), an advanced persistent threat (APT) group associated with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). Additionally, a Chinese software development company has created EagleMsgSpy, a lawful surveillance tool used by many government agencies in mainland China to collect…

From the rise of digital transformation to the now-prevalent use of smart devices, there has been a rapid growth of data over the past decade. This has granted enterprises with more access to data than before. In fact, 64% of organizations are already managing at least one petrabyte (PB) of data, while 41% are overseeing at least a staggering 500 PB of data. Recognizing the role data plays in powering key decisions, as well as…