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Microsoft Security 

Build a stronger security strategy with proactive and reactive incident response: Cyberattack Series

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Incident Response| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Find out how a cyberattack by Storm-2077 was halted faster because the Microsoft Incident Response team is both proactive and reactive at the same time.

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Independent Krebs Security 

Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:32:53 +0000

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.

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Independent Krebs Security 

Experts Flag Security, Privacy Risks in DeepSeek AI App

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:12:30 +0000

New mobile apps from the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek have remained among the top three “free” downloads for Apple and Google devices since their debut on Jan. 25, 2025. But experts caution that many of DeepSeek’s design choices — such as using hard-coded encryption keys, and sending unencrypted user and device data to Chinese companies — introduce a number of glaring security and privacy risks.

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