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A federal appeals court has upheld a law that could see TikTok banned across the US unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divests its ownership. The decision was issued by a three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday, marking a significant setback for the video-sharing platform as it battles to remain operational in the United States. The court ruled that the law, signed by President Joe…

Cyber Defense Magazine Thought Leadership Interview with Nitesh Sinha, Founder and CEO of Sacumen and Praneeth Kudithipudi EVP Sales of Sacumen By Yan Ross, CDM Editor-in-Chief Editor’s Note: Cyber Defense Magazine is pleased to have this opportunity to interview Nitesh Sinha, CEO of Sacumen, and to provide this thought leadership article on cybersecurity integration through Sacumen’s innovative, specialized platforms, following his excellent article on Overcoming Cybersecurity Integration Roadblocks. Sacumen is transforming cybersecurity integration through innovative,…

A compromised version of the popular ultralytics AI library has been found to deliver a cryptocurrency mining payload. ReversingLabs researchers traced the issue to a breach of the library’s build environment, which was exploited through a known GitHub Actions script injection vulnerability. On December 4, version 8.3.41 of ultralytics was published on the Python Package Index (PyPI). This version contained malicious code that downloaded the XMRig coin miner. The attackers used a sophisticated technique to…

Nearly every IT leader today is in the midst of moving the next generation of AI apps from the design phase into deployment, and they are finding that they must grapple with the problems that arise when those apps are dependent on legacy data or infrastructure. And according to the attendees of our CIO Roundtables, there is no one-size-fits-all answer. Each case of legacy dependence must be evaluated separately. Once IT leaders have evaluated how…

Risk–benefit analysis, defence in depth, information security objectives and proportionality Looking to mitigate your information security risks but not sure how to choose effective controls while staying on budget? Risk–benefit analysis is key, as is defence in depth. You also want to set information security objectives that are aligned to your business objectives, and be proportionate in your control selections. Our head of GRC (governance, risk and compliance) consultancy, Damian Garcia, explains further. In this…