Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...
Cyber Defense Magazine

SAML → OIDC Migration: The Hidden Gotchas

In many enterprises, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is the glue that holds legacy single sign-on together. It has ...
Cloud Security Alliance

AWS Ends SSE-C Encryption, and a Ransomware Vector

SSE-C stands (well, stood) for “Server Side Encryption- Customer-provided keys”. It allowed you to provide an encryption key when you put an object into S3. That key was used by S3 to encrypt the data ...
MLive

Michigan’s largest AI data center can move ahead after DTE wins key approval

LANSING, MI - Michigan’s first “hyperscale” data center has a path to power. On Thursday, Dec. 18, state regulators cleared the way for a massive artificial intelligence server warehouse for ChatGPT ...
Wired

The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy

The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370 billion, ...
TechSpot

Critical vulnerability in AMD Zen 5 CPUs could make encryption keys predictable

What we know so far: AMD has revealed that its Zen 5 processors are affected by a critical security vulnerability that compromises the reliability of their hardware-based random number generator, ...
Wall Street Journal

Fed Lost Access to Private Jobs Data Ahead of Government Shutdown

Federal Reserve officials, who are unable to receive U.S. economic statistics because of the continuing government shutdown, recently lost access to a separate measure of employment data from a ...
Bleeping Computer

FinWise data breach shows why encryption is your last defense

The 2024 FinWise data breach serves as a stark example of the growing insider threats faced by modern financial institutions. Unlike typical cyberattacks originating from external hackers, this ...
MarketWatch

The Fed has a big decision to make without key data. Here’s what it could do.

As they prepare to meet in 10 days on interest rates, Federal Reserve officials are very divided over a key question: How worried they ought to be about the U.S. labor market. “Some folks are less ...
American Enterprise Institute

Encryption at a Crossroads: Can We Keep Data Secure Without Sacrificing Safety?

Strong encryption is the backbone of digital privacy and secure data. Pressure on the government to weaken encryption is mounting, which raises some serious concerns. How do we preserve strong ...
Computerworld

UK government still wants Apple to break data encryption

The authoritarian, surveillance-loving UK Labour government remains deeply committed to magical thinking, slamming yet another encryption-busting “Technical Capability Notice” (TCN) on Apple, ...