Microsoft Mitigated the Largest Cloud DDoS Ever Recorded, 15.7 Tbps

BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Security Affairs: On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a single …

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Organizations overconfident in dealing with cybersecurity incidents

Ian Barker / betanews - New research from Immersive Labs reveals a widening gap between confidence and capability in cybersecurity. While nearly every organization (94 percent) believes it can handle a major incident, the data tells a different story. According to Immersive’s an…

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Microsoft Accelerates AI Chip Strategy by Licensing OpenAI’s Custom Hardware IP

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft is licensing proprietary chip and system designs from OpenAI to fast-track its in-house AI accelerators, a move confirmed by CEO Satya Nadella that deepens their partnership and aims to create a vertically integrated hardware stack.The post Micr…

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Google says new cloud-based “Private AI Compute” is just as secure as local processing

Ryan Whitwam / arstechnica - New system allows devices to connect directly to secure space in Google's AI servers.

Back to Top / Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 4:22 pm / permalink 15878 / 8 stories in 3 months

Microsoft Uncovers ‘Whisper Leak’ Flaw, Exposing Encrypted AI Chats Across 28 LLMs

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft researchers have detailed a new side-channel attack called “Whisper Leak” that can guess the topic of encrypted AI chats, exposing a fundamental privacy risk across the AI industry. In a report, the team showed how patterns in network traffic si…

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Google gets the US government’s green light to acquire Wiz for $32B

Rebecca Szkutak / techcrunch - Google announced its intent to acquire cloud security company Wiz in March and the deal is now on track to close in early 2026.

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 15690 / 5 stories in 4 months

Amazon beats the Street's expectations as its cloud finds altitude

Shannon Carroll / qz - AWS grew 20% to $33 billion, its fastest pace in over a year — still trailing Microsoft’s 40% and Google Cloud’s 34%, but closing the gap

Back to Top / Thursday, October 30, 2025, 4:21 pm / permalink 15560 / 9 stories in 4 months

Microsoft Azure Meltdown Exposes Critical Cloud Risk

Datamation Staff / datamation - The outage disrupted major products from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems used by airlines, banks, and retailers.

Back to Top / Thursday, October 30, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 15539 / 4 stories in 4 months

Proton’s new Data Breach Observatory shines a light into the dark web

Ian Barker / betanews - Date breaches affecting businesses and online services are ever more frequent and can affect anyone who is unfortunate enough to be a customer or supplier. Finding out the facts about a breach can be tricky, however, as information is heavily reliant on s…

Back to Top / Thursday, October 30, 2025, 7:20 am / permalink 15536 / 4 stories in 4 months

Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web

Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman / wired - Plus: The Jaguar Land Rover hack sets an expensive new record, OpenAI’s new Atlas browser raises security fears, Starlink cuts off scam compounds, and more.

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Anthropic brings its Claude Code tool to the browser

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Anthropic has released Claude Code Web in beta, a browser-based coding tool that runs tasks without needing a terminal.The article Anthropic brings its Claude Code tool to the browser appeared first on THE DECODER.

Back to Top / Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 15270 / 6 stories in 4 months

UK government again trying to get backdoor access to Apple's user data

appleinsider - The UK government is continuing its bid to access Apple's user data, this time with a demand to routinely access iCloud backups of its citizenry.UK Houses of ParliamentIn August, the UK government seemingly backed down from its backdoor access mandate, ap…

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Google launches AI ransomware detection in Drive desktop, trained on millions of attack samples

techspot - Google believes that the constantly evolving ransomware threat requires a novel approach to prevention and detection. To that end, the company has announced a new AI-powered anti-ransomware feature for its Drive desktop utility, designed to stop file-encr…

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Cloudflare unveils NET Dollar stablecoin secure transactions for the agentic web

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced plans to introduce NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin that will enable instant, secure transactions for the agentic web. Cloudflare is aiming to make NET Dollar a core feature of a n…

Back to Top / Thursday, September 25, 2025, 9:20 pm / permalink 14870 / 4 stories in 5 months

Oracle to oversee TikTok algorithm in Trump-backed deal

James Farrell / siliconangle - After months of negotiations between the U.S. and China, a preliminary agreement apparently has been reached over the fate of TikTok, with Oracle Corp. set to oversee the app’s algorithm. The White House today explained that under the terms of a proposed …

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Mycroft raises $3.5 million USD to deliver “Goldilocks” security for startups

Josh Scott / betakit - Ex-PartnerStack leaders want to give SaaS companies enterprise-grade security without the overhead.The post Mycroft raises $3.5 million USD to deliver “Goldilocks” security for startups first appeared on BetaKit.

Back to Top / Monday, September 22, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 14792 / 2 stories in 5 months

Sumo Logic brings agentic AI to the enterprise security stack

Ian Barker / betanews - Enterprises face a growing volume and complexity of cyber threats which means security teams struggle with alert fatigue and managing a spread of tools. Sumo Logic is launching a new agent-powered security operations tool to help automate routine tasks, s…

Back to Top / Monday, September 22, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 14791 / 2 stories in 5 months

Box Beefs Up AI Agents With Workflow, Security Upgrades

Jon Swartz / techstrong - Box Inc. is burnishing its platform of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to rev up workflows and beef up security within enterprises. At the company's annual BoxWorks conference in San Francisco on Thursday, the company introduced Box Extract, an AI-pow…

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Signal rolls out new encrypted backup features

Signal is stepping up its security game by launching a pair of backup options – one free and one paid – that offer end‐to‐end encrypted storage for chats, media, and messages. This dual-pronged approach aims to ensure users can safely restore their communications even after mishaps.

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