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A collection of current security news and analysis for the Microsoft, biotech, and legal industries.

Microsoft Security

Anthropic's Dario Amodei responds: doesn't oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI | TechCrunch

Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.

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Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers

Just don’t call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in

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New Certighost PoC exploit lets attackers hijack Windows domains

A proof-of-concept exploit for "Certighost," a Windows Active Directory Certificate Services vulnerability, has been released that can allow authenticated attackers to potentially compromise a Windows domain. [...]

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Microsoft's solution to AI security: more AI and more acronyms

MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.4

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Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system | TechCrunch

Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.

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Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack

The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems

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Shadow AI agents are multiplying. Here's how to find and secure them.

Shadow AI agents are rapidly spreading across enterprise platforms, often without IT or security visibility. Nudge Security explains how organizations can discover, assess, and govern AI agents before unmanaged permissions and autonomous actions create securi…

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update

One bug disabled the security service on restart, another blocked installation on hardened RHEL systems

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OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models

If you think OpenAI and Anthropic are the only ones with these capabilities, think again

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Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much

Trump's unpredictability is pushing governments and businesses toward open source while Britain remains glued to US tech

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Biotech & Healthcare Security

Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume | TechCrunch

The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.

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If you pay a hacker's ransom, chances are that they'll come back for more | TechCrunch

The long-held understanding among security researchers and network defenders is that it's impossible to negotiate in good faith with an extortion racket because there's no incentive for the other side to actually walk away.

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Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era | TechCrunch

Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

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Hackers stole 'significant' amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies | TechCrunch

Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that thousands of U.S. hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics rely on for billing patients, potentially exposing health data.

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The Future of Age Verification: Your Face Never Leaves Your Device

As age verification laws expand worldwide, organizations face growing pressure to protect users' privacy while meeting regulatory requirements. Incode explains how on-device age estimation verifies age without transmitting or storing facial images, reducing b…

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US and allies warn of Russian critical infrastructure attacks

Cybersecurity agencies from the United States and eight other countries have issued a joint warning that Russian state hackers are targeting vulnerable and poorly configured routers to infiltrate critical infrastructure networks. [...]

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Ryuk ransomware member pleads guilty in the US, faces 15 years in prison

A 34-year-old Armenian man has pleaded guilty to hacking U.S. companies and deploying the infamous Ryuk ransomware to encrypt their systems. [...]

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Florida ransomware negotiator convicted for helping ransomware gang extort US companies | TechCrunch

A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group to extort American victim companies into paying the hackers.

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Schneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to overwrite critical files, forge or inject malicious log data, gain unauthorized account access, trigger denial‑of‑service conditions, truncate or alter logging informa…

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Labcenter Proteus 9

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could disclose information and allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary code on affected installations. The following versions of Labcenter Proteus 9 are affected: <ul> <li>Proteus 9.1_SP4_…

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