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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

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Deepak Jain, 49, of Potomac, was the CEO of an information technology services company (referred to in the indictment as Company A) that provided data center services to customers, including the SEC,” the US DOJ said in a statement. The certification authenticity forms a smaller part of overall final decision-making, said Gupta.

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When voice deepfakes come calling

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And if they werent, multi-factor authentication (MFA), answers to security questions, and verbal passwords would solve the issue. Navigating IVR According to an analysis of call center deepfake attacks, a primary method favored by fraudsters is using voice deepfakes to successfully move through IVR-based authentication.

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How to protect your business from email compromise – and be prepared if protection falls short

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Many businesses are now requiring employees to update payment information through secure portals rather than relying on email communications, which reduces the chance of falling victim to an attack. Solutions like fraud detection tools, vendor portals and payroll management systems can help safeguard against unauthorized payments.

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What’s holding back CIO’s AI strategies? Their own AI learning curve for one

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Still, other CIOs are the top choice for getting more information about AI, followed by analyst reports, IT vendors, conferences, and IT media. A huge part of the problem is that generative AI is so new that little expertise exists, says Seth Blank, CTO at Valimail, an email authentication provider.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

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Infostealers attempt to log your activity across multiple networks (including social media) and steal username-password combinations and session information to access personally identifiable information (PII), as well as financial data. In the past few months, infostealer malware has gained ground.

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CVE-2025-22224, CVE-2025-22225, CVE-2025-22226: Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion Exploited

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CVE-2025-22226 VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion Information Disclosure Vulnerability 7.1 A local, authenticated attacker with admin privileges could exploit this vulnerability to gain code execution on the virtual-machine executable (VMX) process. For more information, please refer to Broadcoms advisory. VMware Fusion 13.x