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

CIO

While a firewall is simply hardware or software that identifies and blocks malicious traffic based on rules, a human firewall is a more versatile, real-time, and intelligent version that learns, identifies, and responds to security threats in a trained manner. In the past few months, infostealer malware has gained ground.

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Dulling the impact of AI-fueled cyber threats with AI

CIO

It can also create cyber threats that are harder to detect than before, such as AI-powered malware, which can learn from and circumvent an organization’s defenses at breakneck speed. Businesses will need to invest in hardware and infrastructure that are optimized for AI and this may incur significant costs.

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Socket lands $4.6M to audit and catch malicious open source code

TechCrunch

But projects get abandoned and picked up by others who plant backdoors or malware, or, as seen recently since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a rise in “protestware,” in which open source software developers alter their code to wipe the contents of Russian computers in protest of the Kremlin’s incursion.

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How to use your Android as a 2FA key

The Parallax

They are considered to be more secure than two-factor codes sent by SMS or generated by apps, but many consumers have balked at paying $20 to $50 for an additional piece of hardware they’d have to carry around. Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. Opinion: To stay safer on Android, stick with Google Play.

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Your old router could be a hacking group’s APT pawn

The Parallax

T o create layers of obfuscation that hide an attack’s origins, Grange says, Inception Framework then reroutes its malicious messages at least three times through the hijacked routers before ultimately sending them to their targets, or allowing the hidden malware to communicate with its control server.

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3 Cybersecurity Technologies You Should Know

The Crazy Programmer

Cybersecurity is more critical than ever in today’s modern world, especially with news of ransomware attacks and other forms of malware on the rise. An SDP hides an organization’s infrastructure from outsiders, regardless of where it is situated, by constructing a perimeter with software rather than hardware.

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New botnet Torii showcases next stage of IoT abuse, researchers say

The Parallax

Martin Hron, security researcher at Avast and co-author of the report , says Torii must target a breathtaking number of devices because it is designed to work on an unusually large number of hardware systems. Torii will work on devices that run on at least six types of hardware, Hron says: ARM, x86, x64, MIPS, PowerPC, and SuperH.

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