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Cybersecurity Leadership: Navigating Identity, Access, and Complexity

Insights from CEOs and CISOs on Navigating the ‘Work From Anywhere’ Challenge Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • March 3, 2021 In the current landscape where remote work is becoming the norm, identity and access management solutions face unprecedented challenges. Leading CEOs and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) have shared crucial strategies…

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Fortinet Alerts Users to New Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in FortiGate and FortiProxy

Security Alert: Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Fortinet Products Fortinet has issued a private alert regarding a serious security vulnerability affecting its FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. This issue has the potential to enable unauthorized actions on vulnerable devices, raising significant concerns for businesses relying on these solutions. The vulnerability,…

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US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit May Be in the Possession of Foreign Spies and Criminals

Recent findings by Google reveal that vulnerabilities exploited by the Coruna toolkit have been patched by Apple in the current versions of its iOS operating system, specifically iOS 26. As a result, the techniques used by Coruna are only confirmed to affect devices running iOS versions 13 through 17.2.1. This…

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Iran Conflict Heightens Cybersecurity Threats in Healthcare

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks, Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Healthcare <span class=”article-sub-title”>Experts Caution Against DDoS, Ransomware, and Other Cyber Threats in Healthcare</span> <span class=”article-byline”> <a class=”author-link” href=””>Marianne Kolbasuk McGee</a> (<a href=””><i class=”fa fa-twitter”/>HealthInfoSec</a>) • <span class=”text-nowrap”>March 2, 2026</span> <a href=”#disqus_thread”/> </span> <figure> <img src=”” alt=”Iran Conflict Elevates Cyber Risk for Healthcare”…

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Fortinet Alerts on Ongoing Exploitation of Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Fortinet Confirms Active Exploitation of Critical Vulnerability in Firewall and Proxy Products On Monday, Fortinet disclosed a critical security vulnerability affecting its firewall and proxy offerings, warning that the flaw is currently being exploited in the wild. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-40684 and rated with a CVSS score of 9.6,…

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Email Scam Broadly Targets GitHub Developers Using Dimnie Trojan

Open source developers utilizing GitHub have been alerted to a phishing email campaign aimed at infecting their systems with a sophisticated malware trojan known as Dimnie. This malicious software is designed to perform reconnaissance and espionage, enabling attackers to steal login credentials, download confidential files, capture screenshots, log keystrokes on…

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LLMs Can Reveal the Identities of Pseudonymous Users at Scale with Remarkable Precision

Researchers Highlight Risks of LLM-Based Deanonymization Techniques Recent studies have illuminated the growing ability of large language models (LLMs) to deanonymize users online, posing significant privacy concerns for various stakeholders. In an experiment involving the Netflix dataset, researchers evaluated the efficacy of LLMs against traditional deanonymization methods. They began with…

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