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Jan 16, 2025 | 
urgentcomm.com | Robert Lemos
In 2024, the Taiwanese government saw the daily average of attempted attacks by China double to 2.4 million, with a focus on government targets and telecommunications firms. Using phishing emails and zero-day exploits, China's cyber-operations groups targeted Taiwanese organizations — including government agencies, telecommunications firms, and transportation — with significantly higher volumes of attacks in 2024.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
darkreading.com | Robert Lemos
As companies seek to improve their cybersecurity postures, they are increasingly using a variety of metrics, scoring systems, and reputational rankings to measure their efforts. But in many cases, businesses are asking too much of the various systems that attempt to measure security.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
urgentcomm.com | Robert Lemos
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
darkreading.com | Robert Lemos
Using phishing emails and zero-day exploits, China's cyber-operations groups targeted Taiwanese organizations — including government agencies, telecommunications firms, and transportation — with significantly higher volumes of attacks in 2024.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
darkreading.com | Robert Lemos
A half-dozen governments in Central Asia and Latin American have purchased the System for Operative Investigative Activities (SORM) wiretapping technology from Russian providers, expanding their — and potentially Russian intelligence's — ability to intercept communications.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
urgentcomm.com | Phil Harvey |Robert Lemos
The world’s first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant will be built at the James River Industrial Park in Chesterfield County, Virginia. That’s according to a Dec. 17 announcement from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, one of the largest private fusion companies in the country. The multibillion-dollar project is still nascent, however.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
darkreading.com | Robert Lemos
The telecommunications provider for the African nation of Namibia suffered a significant ransomware attack late last year, becoming a visible symbol of the merging of two trends in the region: increasing attacks on critical infrastructure and the growing threat of ransomware. Last month, Telecom Namibia alerted customers that a successful attack by the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group Hunters International led to users' information being leaked online.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
darkreading.com | Robert Lemos
The use of large language models (LLMs) for code generation surged in 2024, with a vast majority of developers using OpenAI's ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, or JetBrains AI Assistant to help them code. However, the security of the generated code — and developers' trust in that code — continues to lag.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
darkreading.com | Robert Lemos
On Christmas Eve, developers at data detection and response firm Cyberhaven received a troubling email that seemed to come from Google, threatening to remove access to the company's Chrome extension for violation of excessive metadata.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
darkreading.com | Robert Lemos
The quest to create a useful quantum computer reached a significant milestone at the end of 2024 with Google's announcement of its Willow chip. The chip promises reduced noise and fewer errors as the number of qubits grows — a necessary step to advance toward advanced quantum computing. Despite some debate on when these systems will actually become available, experts still advise making plans and migrating to post-quantum technologies.
