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CISA and FDA Warn of Critical Backdoor in Contec CMS8000 Patient Monitors

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts about the presence of hidden functionality in Contec CMS8000 patient monitors and Epsimed MN-120 patient monitors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0626, carries a CVSS v4 score of 7.7 on a scale of 10.0. The flaw, alongside two […]

Top 5 AI-Powered Social Engineering Attacks

Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray and pray’ password guessing. No scouring systems for unpatched software. Instead, it simply relies on manipulating emotions such as trust, fear, and respect for authority, usually with the goal of gaining access to sensitive information […]

Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy and Ethical Concerns

Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek’s service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users’ personal data. The development comes days after the authority, the Garante, sent a series of questions to DeepSeek, asking about its data handling practices and where it obtained its […]

Governor Murphy and Princeton University President Eisgruber announce Microsoft and CoreWeave as founding partners in NJ AI Hub

Major artificial intelligence Hub will bolster state’s innovation economy  Microsoft, CoreWeave, New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Princeton University expected to invest over $72 million to support the long-term success of the Hub  TRENTON, N.J. (Jan. 31, 2025) – Governor Phil Murphy and Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber on Friday announced that Microsoft and […]

Google Bans 158,000 Malicious Android App Developer Accounts in 2024

Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in 2024 and banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts that attempted to publish such harmful apps. The tech giant also noted it prevented 1.3 million apps from getting excessive or unnecessary access to sensitive user […]

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