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Email Security Is Stuck in the Antivirus Era: Why It Needs a Modern Approach

July 28, 2025 Blogmaster

Picture this: you’ve hardened every laptop in your fleet with real‑time telemetry, rapid isolation, and automated rollback. But the corporate mailbox—the front door for most attackers—is still guarded by what…

Cybersecurity

Scattered Spider Hijacks VMware ESXi to Deploy Ransomware on Critical U.S. Infrastructure

July 28, 2025 Blogmaster

The notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider is targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors in attacks targeting retail, airline, and transportation sectors in North America. “The group’s core tactics have remained…

Cybersecurity

Critical Flaws in Niagara Framework Threaten Smart Buildings and Industrial Systems Worldwide

July 28, 2025 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered over a dozen security vulnerabilities impacting Tridium’s Niagara Framework that could allow an attacker on the same network to compromise the system under certain circumstances. “These…

Technology

Peacemaker S2 trailer finds our anti-hero in a parallel world

July 27, 2025 Blogmaster

HBO Max dropped the hotly anticipated full trailer for S2 of Peacemaker—James Gunn’s Emmy-nominated series spun off from his 2021 film, The Suicide Squad —at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend.…

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

July 27, 2025 Blogmaster

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a comment about our call for the government to accept accountability for the power it…

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20 years after Katrina, NatGeo and New Orleans remember

July 27, 2025 Blogmaster

Next month marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history: Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm that made landfall on August 29, 2005.…

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Robots eating other robots: The benefits of machine metabolism

July 27, 2025 Blogmaster

For decades we’ve been trying to make the robots smarter and more physically capable by mimicking biological intelligence and movement. “But in doing so, we’ve been just replicating the results…

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This Week In Techdirt History: July 20th – 26th

July 26, 2025 Blogmaster

Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the DHS was going full gestapo in response to protests in Portland, then quickly expanding the tactics to other cities, starting with Chicago,…

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This aerogel and some sun could make saltwater drinkable

July 26, 2025 Blogmaster

Earth is about 71 percent water. An overwhelming 97 percent of that water is found in the oceans, leaving us with only 3 percent in the form of freshwater—and much…

Technology

Microsoft to stop using China-based teams to support Department of Defense

July 26, 2025 Blogmaster

Last week, Microsoft announced that it would no longer use China-based engineering teams to support the Defense Department’s cloud computing systems, following ProPublica’s investigation of the practice, which cybersecurity experts…

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