Allstate is launching scam protection as a workplace benefit that reimburses employees up to $50,000 annually for fraud losses. The coverage includes cryptocurrency theft and extends to unlimited household members. It comes as the FTC reports consumers lost over $12 billion to fraud in 2024.
A new Gartner survey shows 61% of European CIOs plan to increase local cloud usage. Meanwhile, tech giants lost $1.2 trillion in value, and researchers discovered copy-paste vulnerabilities in AI frameworks from Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft.
Privacy commissioners in Ontario and Alberta released coordinated findings blaming school boards for security failures that amplified the PowerSchool breach. The December 2024 attack exposed data on nearly 4.6 million people after criminals used compromised credentials to access systems. Investigato
Cloudflare’s detailed post-mortem reveals their global outage was caused by a simple .unwrap() call in Rust code that panicked. The incident has sparked intense discussion about error handling practices in production systems. Even experienced Rust teams can make fundamental mistakes with serious con
Microsoft is warning users about security risks in its new Windows 11 AI features. The company admits AI could be manipulated into installing malware or exfiltrating data. These agentic AI capabilities are currently rolling out to Windows 11 Insider users.
SAP and Microsoft have partnered to create emergency cloud backup options for European customers during crises. The agreements with French and German sovereign cloud providers aim to ensure business continuity even in military conflicts or cyberattacks. This comes as European IT leaders increasingly
A 2021 third-party breach involving Codecov revealed critical gaps in SaaS security visibility. The incident prompted InfluxData to develop DiSCO, their own time-series based security monitoring platform. Now they’re seeing security events that would have otherwise been completely missed.
Cloudflare’s massive outage that took down large portions of the internet wasn’t caused by a cyberattack. Instead, a database permission change created an oversized file that crashed their systems. The company has apologized and detailed exactly what went wrong.
WhatsApp’s contact system allowed researchers to extract phone numbers for all 3.5 billion users. The vulnerability existed for years despite warnings to Meta. Rate-limiting was only implemented in October 2023.
The Federal Communications Commission will vote this week to scrap cybersecurity rules implemented after the Salt Typhoon attacks. Telecom industry groups successfully argued the requirements were overly burdensome and exceeded the FCC’s legal authority.
