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

CIO

What is a human firewall? A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. It also boasts a massive advantage over hardware and software firewalls: common sense.

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OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet

TechCrunch

Google has been found to prioritize its own services in Search by, for example, answering a travel query with data from Google Places instead of a richer, more social source like TripAdvisor. This gives search engines a lot of power over the data that might inform web-connected language models’ answers.

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ZeroFox goes public in $1.4B SPAC deal

TechCrunch

ZeroFox , an enterprise threat intelligence cybersecurity startup that helps companies detect risks found on social media , has announced plans to become a publicly traded company via a merger with blank-check company L&F Acquisition.

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Stelo Labs raises $6M in a16z-led round to help crypto wallet users protect themselves

TechCrunch

While there are a number of web3 security companies out there, Stelo Labs focuses on helping prevent malicious transactions , phishing and social engineering for Ethereum -based users, Dhesi said. “When we think of what web3 can be and enable, it’ll be cut off at the knees if things aren’t safe.”

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The changing face of cybersecurity threats in 2023

CIO

Using the “same old” low-skill tactics, common tools, and a bit of social engineering, hackers can get around complex security policies such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and identity and access management (IAM) systems. Let’s revisit the most prevalent security threats and see how they’re evolving in 2023.

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Azure Storage Account Networking: When to Use Firewalls and Service Endpoints

Linux Academy

Recently, when building content for one of my upcoming courses, Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies – Exam AZ-300 , I found the Microsoft documentation wasn’t immediately clear on the exclusivity of Storage Account Firewalls, and Service Endpoints. Do I need to use Service Endpoints and the Storage Firewall together?

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OpsHelm emerges from stealth to automatically correct your security blunders

TechCrunch

It could be the classic exposed Amazon S3 bucket or a firewall vulnerability. Prior to founding OpsHelm, Gambardella was COO at Leviathan Security Group, and previously ran security at Sprout Social. There are so many preventable cybersecurity incidents each year, if only you were aware of the problem.

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