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Playing Koi: Palo Alto isn't saying if it will buy security start-up
Palo Alto Networks is on shopping spree. The company is reportedly considering a $400 million purchase of Israeli cybersecurity start up Koi, which raised $48 million in funding last year. …
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3.…
New Zealand orders review into ManageMyHealth cyberattack
New Zealand health minister Simeon Brown has ordered a review into the cyberattack at ManageMyHealth, which threatens the data of hundreds of thousands of Kiwis.…
Trump admin sends heart emoji to commercial spyware makers with lifted Predator sanctions
infosec in brief The Trump administration has cleared a trio of individuals sanctioned by the Biden administration for involvement with the Intellexa spyware consortium behind the Predator surveillance tool, removing restrictions that had barred them from doing business with the US.…
Palo Alto Networks security-intel boss calls AI agents 2026's biggest insider threat
interview AI agents represent the new insider threat to companies in 2026, according to Palo Alto Networks Chief Security Intel Officer Wendi Whitmore, and this poses several challenges to executives tasked with securing the expected surge in autonomous agents.…
Bitfinex crypto thief who was serving five years thanks Trump for early release
Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges tied to the 2016 theft of about 120,000 bitcoins from the Bitfinex exchange and was sentenced to five years in prison, has been released after roughly 14 months in the slammer.…
Cybercrook claims to be selling infrastructure info about three major US utilities
A cybercrook claims to have breached Pickett and Associates, a Florida-based engineering firm whose clients include major US utilities, and is selling what they claim to be about 139 GB of engineering data about Tampa Electric Company, Duke Energy Florida, and American Electric Power. The price is 6.5 bitcoin, which amounts to about $585,000.…
Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems
A British security researcher has secured Australia's strictest, invite-only visa after discovering a critical vulnerability in a government system.…
LockBit takedown architect gets New Year award from King Charles
A senior British crimefighter has been awarded one of the country's highest tributes for public service for his role in the 2024 LockBit ransomware takedown.…
Cisco XDR in 30: Turning Security Signals Into Confident Action
Sponsored Post Security teams are being asked to do more with less, while the environments they protect continue to grow in size and complexity. Alerts arrive from dozens of tools, each offering a partial view of risk. The real challenge is no longer finding potential threats, but deciding which ones matter and how quickly to act.…