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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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SHARING INTEL: Why full ‘digital transformation’ requires locking down ‘machine identities’

The Last Watchdog

This is so in spite of the fact that machine identities are exploding in numbers and have come to saturate digital transformation. A machine, in this context, refers to any piece of hardware or software that can accept and execute instructions. By comparison, scant effort has gone into securing the latter.

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News alert: Aptori’s AI-driven platform reduces risk, ensures compliance — now on Google Marketplace

The Last Watchdog

This new agentic AI solution leverages semantic reasoning to analyze application code and logic in real time, delivering deterministic vulnerability detection, contextual risk prioritization, and automated remediation. Aptori can now securely scale and support customers on their digital transformation journeys. San Jose, Calif.,

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The C-Suite Power Shift: Why CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs Must Realign to Survive

Jane Frankland

Today, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) are rising in prominence—fuelled by the accelerating demands of AI innovation, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. The digital era has brought with it not just new technologies, but new power dynamics. Risks slip through the cracks.

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

The Last Watchdog

Businesses must adopt tools and automation capable of invoking immediate action, even at the risk of false positives. Raising security baselines across industries is essential, with risk mitigationnot acceptancebecoming the standard. Security teams will need to address the unique risks posed using LLMs in mission critical environments.

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MY TAKE: How ‘CASBs’ are evolving to close the security gaps arising from digital transformation

The Last Watchdog

The Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) space is maturing to keep pace with digital transformation. The cloud presents a dual risk. Related: CASBs needed now, more than ever. Deepening services. It creates many more possible ways to get at a company’s systems and data.

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GUEST ESSAY: The three horsemen of cyber risks: misinformation, disinformation and fake news

The Last Watchdog

Such a transformation however, comes with its own set of risks. Misleading information has emerged as one of the leading cyber risks in our society, affecting political leaders, nations, and people’s lives, with the COVID-19 pandemic having only made it worse. So, how do organizations prepare against such threats?