Scammers are using everything from fraudulent deals and fake ads to spoofed websites and brand impersonation to target online shoppers who are gearing up for Black Friday as the holiday buying season gets underway, according to cybersecurity firms.

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The watchdog for the EPA found that, of 1,062 U.S. drinking water systems it assessed, 97 had "critical" or "high-risk" security flaws and another 211 had less dangerous vulnerabilities, risking threats from stolen data to disrupted service.

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Jen Easterly, who took over as CISA director in 2021, will step down in January when Donald Trump takes over as president, creating an uncertain future for the critical cybersecurity agency and the country's larger security posture in an increasingly complex cyberthreat environment.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — With great promise comes potential peril. And while artificial intelligence (AI) is looked upon as a panacea for enterprises, it also poses an existential security threat. “We stand at the intersection of human ingenuity and technological innovation, where the game of cybersecurity has evolved into a high-stakes match,” Nir Zuk, founder..

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Google Cloud says it is taking a phased approach to making MFA mandatory for all users by the end of 2025 to help bolster the cyber-protections against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.

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A Canadian resident, Alexander “Connor” Moucka, was arrested by Canadian law enforcement at the request of the United States for allegedly stealing sensitive data of myriad corporations like AT&T and Santander Bank that were stored in Snowflake's cloud systems and exposed during a breach.

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Google researchers behind the vendor's Big Sleep project used the LLM-based AI agent to detect a security flaw in SQLite, illustrating the value the emerging technology can have in discovering vulnerabilities that techniques like fuzzing can't.

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The FIDO Alliance found in a survey that as consumers become more familiar with passkeys, they are adopting the technology as a more secure alternative to passwords to authenticate their identities online.

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GreyNoise Intelligence researchers said proprietary internal AI-based tools allowed them to detect and identify two vulnerabilities in IoT live-stream cameras that traditional cybersecurity technologies would not have been able to discover.

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Microsoft is again delaying the release of its controversial Recall feature for new Windows Copilot+ PCs until December to get new security capabilities in place and hopefully avoid the industry backlash it faced when first introducing the tool in May.

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