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Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden
/in General NewsAn investigation into more than 300 cyberattacks against US K–12 schools over the past five years shows how schools can withhold crucial details from students and parents whose data was stolen.
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Microsoft Patches Critical Azure AI Face Service Vulnerability with CVSS 9.9 Score
/in General NewsMicrosoft has released patches to address two Critical-rated security flaws impacting Azure AI Face Service and Microsoft Account that could allow a malicious actor to escalate their privileges under certain conditions.
The flaws are listed below –
CVE-2025-21396 (CVSS score: 7.5) – Microsoft Account Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2025-21415 (CVSS score: 9.9) – Azure AI Face Service
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Google Patches 47 Android Security Flaws, Including Actively Exploited CVE-2024-53104
/in General NewsGoogle has shipped patches to address 47 security flaws in its Android operating system, including one it said has come under active exploitation in the wild.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-53104 (CVSS score: 7.8), which has been described as a case of privilege escalation in a kernel component known as the USB Video Class (UVC) driver.
Successful exploitation of the flaw could lead
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Microsoft SharePoint Connector Flaw Could’ve Enabled Credential Theft Across Power Platform
/in General NewsCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability impacting the Microsoft SharePoint connector on Power Platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to harvest a user’s credentials and stage follow-on attacks.
This could manifest in the form of post-exploitation actions that allow the attacker to send requests to the SharePoint API on behalf
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Anthropic claims new AI security method blocks 95% of jailbreaks, invites red teamers to try
/in General NewsThe new Claude safeguards have already technically been broken but Anthropic says this was due to a glitch — try again.Read More
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Microsoft Will Remove the Free VPN That Comes With Windows Defender Soon
/in General NewsThe feature will no longer be available starting Feb. 28. Microsoft wants to focus on “new areas that will better align to customer needs.”
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Hackers Hide Malware in Fake DeepSeek PyPI Packages
/in General NewsMalicious DeepSeek packages on PyPI spread malware, stealing sensitive data like API keys. Learn how this attack targeted developers and how to protect yourself.
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Interactive Online Training for Cybersecurity Professionals; Earn CPE Credits
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‘Constitutional Classifiers’ Technique Mitigates GenAI Jailbreaks
/in General NewsAnthropic says its Constitutional Classifiers approach offers a practical way to make it harder for bad actors to try and coerce an AI model off its guardrails.
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EMEA CISOs Plan 2025 Cloud Security Investment
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