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LW ROUNDTABLE — How 2024’s cyber threats will transform the security landscape in 2025

The Last Watchdog

Williams Brandon Williams , CTO, Conversant Group Predictions for 2025 point to attack speeds increasing by up to 100X, necessitating faster detection and response times. Businesses must adopt tools and automation capable of invoking immediate action, even at the risk of false positives.

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Patch Tuesday, April 2025 Edition

Krebs on Security

The zero-day flaw already seeing exploitation is CVE-2025-29824 , a local elevation of privilege bug in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver. Microsoft rates it as “important,” but as Chris Goettl from Ivanti points out, risk-based prioritization warrants treating it as critical.

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Experts Flag Security, Privacy Risks in DeepSeek AI App

Krebs on Security

But experts caution that many of DeepSeek’s design choices — such as using hard-coded encryption keys, and sending unencrypted user and device data to Chinese companies — introduce a number of glaring security and privacy risks. For starters, he said, the app collects an awful lot of data about the user’s device.

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LW ROUNDTABLE:  Predictive analytics, full-stack visualization to solidify cyber defenses in 2025

The Last Watchdog

Shashanka Dr. Madhu Shashanka , Chief Data Scientist, Concentric AI Generative AI in 2025 will bring transformative opportunities but heightened cybersecurity risks, including data exposure, AI misuse, and novel threats like prompt injection attacks. Real-time defense and a robust security mindset are crucial to staying resilient.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls In Automation: Keep Humans In the Loop

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. 📆 May 14, 2025 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm BST From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value.

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Phishing Threats, GenAI Among Top Cybersecurity Risks in 2025

Security Boulevard

The post Phishing Threats, GenAI Among Top Cybersecurity Risks in 2025 appeared first on Security Boulevard. According to a Netskope report, phishing attacks surged in 2024, with enterprise employees clicking on phishing links at a rate nearly three times higher than in 2023. The study found phishing campaigns have evolved.

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MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

Krebs on Security

14, 2025 shows the mistyped domain name a22-65.akam.ne. From June 30, 2020 until January 14, 2025, one of the core Internet servers that MasterCard uses to direct traffic for portions of the mastercard.com network was misnamed. “Dont dismiss risk, and dont let your marketing team handle security disclosures.”

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