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May 8, 2025Ravi LakshmananNetwork Security/Vulnerabilities SonicWall has released a patch that addresses three security flaws that affect SMA 100 Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2025-32819 (CVSS Score: 8.8) – A vulnerability in SMA100 allows a remote authentication attacker with SSL-VPN user privileges to bypass the path traversal check, delete any file, and restart to factory default settings. CVE-2025-32820 (CVSS Score: 8.3) – A vulnerability in SMA100 allows a remote authentication attacker with privileged SSL-VPN users to insert a path traversal sequence to create any directory on the SMA appliance. SSL-VPN admin privileges can be…
May 8, 2025Ravi LakshmananThreat Intelligence/Ransomware Threat actors with ties to the Qilin Ransomware family leveraged malware known as Smokeloader, along with a previously undocumented .NET compiled Loader CodeNead NetxLoader, as part of a campaign observed in November 2024. “Netxloader is a new .NET-based loader that plays a key role in cyberattacks,” Trend Micro researchers Jacob Santos, Raymart Yanbot, John Reinienabat, Sarah Pearl Camilling and Nell Joan Nathaniel Aguas said in an analysis Wednesday. “While hidden, it secretly deploys additional malicious payloads such as agenda ransomware and smoke loaders. NetxLoaders protected by .NET Reactor 6 are difficult to analyze.” Qilin, also…
VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Imagesa Standard Charter Predicted analyst Bitcoin Hitting $120,000 by the second quarter, he says his price call is “too low.””I apologize for the possibility that my USD120K Q2’s target may be too low,” Geoffrey Kendrick, Digital Asset Manager at Standard Chartered, said in a tongue comment she shared with her client via email on Thursday.Last month, Kendrick wrote a note that he expected Bitcoin to reach its all-time highs behind the “relocation of strategic assets away from US assets” and “accumulation by “whales” (major holders”) in the second quarter of 2025.”We expect these…
Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors will head to basketball in the second quarter against Dyson Daniels #11 of the New Orleans Pelican at Chase Center on April 12, 2024 in San Francisco, California. Kavin Mistry | Getty ImagesA federal judge in Florida has rejected most of the claims against famous celebrities and YouTubers who promoted the now-deprecated cryptocurrency exchange FTX, including stars such as Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen, Kevin O’Leary and Stephen Curry.The ruling narrows the scope of a vast multi-district lawsuit that accuses them of using their fame to sell fraudulent platforms.In an order filed Wednesday,…
Sankaet Pathak is back. This time he’s building a robot. Just a few months after the fintech company Synapse collapsed under his leadership, Pathak is now behind a new startup called Foundation Robotics Labs. According to an exclusive report from the information, the company is reportedly trying to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. That’s a bold question, especially for a company that was founded last year and still operates stealth. But this is Silicon Valley and big bets are nothing new. Foundation Robotics aims to value $1 billion “The humanoid robot startup, founded by the former CEO…
On Thursday, Reddit announced a company’s enhanced profile using Reddit Pro, the company’s suite of tools designed to help brands discover, participate and contribute to conversations with the social network community. Reddit generates and proposes a profile BIOS for your company when you sign up for Reddit Pro. Once a company offers a website, you can choose from one of several suggested explanations. Companies can also showcase comments about community posts and profiles, as well as cross-post conversations about them and the industry that appear on the Reddit Pro Trends tab. The Trends tab, launched earlier this year, can reveal…
After all, if you say AI chatbots are concise, they can be more hallucinating than they would otherwise be. This is according to a new study from Giskard, a Paris-based AI testing company that develops an overall benchmark for AI models. In a blog post detailing their findings, Giskard researchers state that shorter answers to questions, particularly questions about ambiguous topics, can have a negative impact on the facts of the AI model. “Our data shows that simple changes in system instructions dramatically affect the hallucination trends of models,” the researchers write. “This discovery has important deployment implications as many…
The All-Party Parliament Group for Events (APPG) held the new parliamentary dinner in the House on Wednesday, bringing together key figures from the UK events sector and senior political stakeholders. The dinner, hosted by Telford’s MP and APPG Chair Shaun Davies, welcomed lawmakers, including several Appg officers, along with the group and individual company members. Participants included Beam representatives, as well as representatives from the Scotland Event Campus (SEC), Togather, Event Hire Association, Experience Oxfordshire, Raccoon Media Group, Manchester Central, The Association of Event Venues (AEV), and Meetings Industry Association (MIA). Businesses from the Culture, Media & Sports department, Visitbritain,…
At Beam’s All Member Meeting at Mercure Manchester Piccadily Hotel on April 30, a panel of final year students from Manchester Metropolitan University urged the industry to open the doors. The panel, hosted by Beamboard’s Caroline Medcalf, featured senior lecturers Jonathan Sibley and students, Lucy Hucklebridge Key, Lammana Promi, Claire Pisilla and Rachel Wheeler. Talking to the room of over 100 industry professionals, students provided bold and honest insight into what the next generation wants from the workplace, explaining that they are interested in opportunities to learn, grow and contribute, not in the brand of potential employers. Wheeler shares that…
Milena Roveda, chairman of the European Fusion Association, discusses the important actions needed to make fusion commercialisation a European reality. Around the world, efforts to achieve fusion commercialization are continuing to gain momentum. Europe is a major contributor to such efforts, developing strong R&D infrastructure, fostering public-private partnerships, and coordinating national and EU-level strategies. The European Fusion Association (EFA) was formed by leading European companies across the fusion value chain to support and accelerate the journey to commercialization of European fusion. EFA recognizes that the challenge of making industrial-scale fusion powerplants a reality is too great for a country or…