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Provides businesses with early warnings to evict threat actors before they can encrypt data

Admin-level holes in websites are always a bad thing… and for “bad”, read “worse” if it’s an e-commerce site.

Business leaders still underestimate importance of security to growth

This is fascinating:

“When a squid ends up chipping what’s called its ring tooth, which is the nail underneath its tentacle, it needs to regrow that tooth very rapidly, otherwise it can’t claw its prey,” he explains.

This was intriguing news ­ and it sparked an idea in Hopkins lab where he’d been trying to figure out how to store and transmit heat.

“It diffuses in all directions. There’s no way to capture the heat and move it the way that you would electricity. It’s just not a fundamental law of physics.”

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The tiny brown batteries he mentions are about the size of a chiclet, and Hopkins says it will take a decade or more to create larger batteries that could have commercial value.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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Cyber-criminals used the scam to steal the credentials for various email accounts

The deployment of custom credential theft malware is the main novelty of the new campaign

Software was unwittingly downloaded thousands of times

Plans to boost cyber-resilience in the health service by 2030

The flaw derives from the way the Okta system records failed login attempts to instances

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