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Backed by Sequoia Southeast Asia, SquareX protects web users with disposable browsers

TechCrunch

The headless browsers run in SquareX’s data centers so threats don’t reach users’ computers and they don’t need to worry about their personal information being exposed. Ramachandran said SquareX is intended as a alternative to VPN, anti-virus, anti-malware and other endpoint security solutions.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO

If you have a data center that happens to have capacity, why pay someone else?” A model trained on, say, an archive of flat earth conspiracy theories will be bad at answering science questions, or a model fine-tuned by North Korean hackers might be bad at correctly identifying malware.

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Cloudy with a chance of threats: Advice for mitigating the top cyber threats of 2024

Lacework

This scanning is typically conducted using out-of-band application security tools (OAST), which penetration testers originally designed to identify vulnerabilities and help companies fix those; but attackers have since repurposed these tools to scan the internet for vulnerabilities that enable them to break into cloud environments.

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How the tech industry is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

TechCrunch

The attack began with cyberattacks that targeted Ukrainian government departments with floods of internet traffic and data-wiping malware, followed by a ground, sea and air incursion. Cloudflare opened its Kyiv data center in 2016, which remains operational according to the company’s status pages.

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Are you ready for a state-sponsored cyber attack?

CTOvision

The lethality of state-sponsored attacks derives from their ability to bypass security point products by combining device, network and data center vulnerabilities into an integrated assault. Right after identity theft, malware is the next favorite cyber attack technique. Check Device and Server Software.

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Call for Papers — Ignite ‘21 Is Now Open

Palo Alto Networks

Data Center Security. Network Perimeter Internet Edge Security. Data Loss Prevention. Malware Analysis & Sandboxing. Internet / Web Security. Internet Operations Management. We’re looking for presentations in the following tracks and areas: Track | Use Cases. Network Security Management.

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CVE-2021-26084: Atlassian Confluence OGNL Injection Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

On August 25, Atlassian published a security advisory for a critical vulnerability in its Confluence Server and Data Center software. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted request to vulnerable endpoints on the Confluence Server or Data Center instance. Background.