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Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 “quick recovery” feature

With the latest Windows 11 update, Microsoft is saying goodbye to the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” and has enabled the quick machine recovery feature by default for Home users. “For nearly four decades, the blue screen shown during an unexpected restart has been a visual shorthand for something going wrong,” says Monika Sandhu, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. “The new UI is simpler, and more aligned with Windows 11’s design language. It removes the … More → The post Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 “quick recovery” feature appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Mastermind behind Russian-speaking cybercrime hub arrested in Ukraine

The suspected administrator of xss.is, one of the world’s most influential Russian-speaking cybercrime forums, was arrested in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 22 July. The takedown followed a long-running investigation led by the French Police and Paris Prosecutor, in close cooperation with Ukrainian authorities and Europol. With over 50,000 registered users, xss.is functioned as a major marketplace for stolen data, hacking tools and illicit services. It played a central role in facilitating, advertising, and recruiting for some … More → The post Mastermind behind Russian-speaking cybercrime hub arrested in Ukraine appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Bitdefender boosts protection across major content platforms

Bitdefender expanded support for Facebook and Instagram for Bitdefender Security for Creators, a dedicated cybersecurity solution for digital content creators, social media influencers, and online creatives. With this expansion, the service delivers powerful, multi-platform protection across YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, addressing the sharp increase in scams, account takeovers, and malware attacks threatening creators’ livelihoods and reputations. Online scams and credential theft are accelerating at an alarming pace. A recent investigation uncovered a massive cache of … More → The post Bitdefender boosts protection across major content platforms appeared first on Help Net Security.
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PlexTrac Workflow Automation Engine enhancements accelerate time to remediation

PlexTrac launched enhanced Workflow Automation Engine, a major product update designed to standardize workflows across the vulnerability lifecycle, automate pentest findings delivery, accelerate time to remediation, and increase operational efficiency. By leveraging the unified security data already centralized in PlexTrac, the new automation capabilities drive consistent, end-to-end vulnerability lifecycle management. Organizations spend a lot of time writing pentest reports, only to deliver them as static PDFs. These reports aren’t immediately actionable and stakeholders must manually … More → The post PlexTrac Workflow Automation Engine enhancements accelerate time to remediation appeared first on Help Net Security.
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How to Make a CPM Network Diagram Step-by-Step

Creating a CPM network starts with listing all the tasks required to complete a project and determining the sequence and dependencies between them. Each task is represented as a node or box in the diagram, and arrows indicate the logical… Read More The post How to Make a CPM Network Diagram Step-by-Step appeared first on ProjectManager.
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Maximum severity Cisco ISE vulnerabilities exploited by attackers

One or more vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) are being exploited in the wild, Cisco has confirmed by updating the security advisory for the flaws. About the vulnerabilities The three vulnerabilities affect Cisco’s Identity Services Engine (ISE) – a network security policy and access control system for enterprises – and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC), which is a lightweight identity service that allows Cisco ISE to passively gather user identity information. CVE-2025-20281 … More → The post Maximum severity Cisco ISE vulnerabilities exploited by attackers appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Agreement for critical CISA cyber threat analysis work expires

CISA says it’s reviewing an agreement with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that involves the lab analyzing “CyberSentry” threat data. The post Agreement for critical CISA cyber threat analysis work expires first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Agreement for critical CISA cyber threat analysis work expires

CISA says it’s reviewing an agreement with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that involves the lab analyzing “CyberSentry” threat data. The post Agreement for critical CISA cyber threat analysis work expires first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Businesses tighten IT spending plans amid Trump tariff threats

Shifts in U.S. trade policy pushed companies into a wait-and-see mode, S&P Global Market Intelligence Research Analyst Malav Parekh said.
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Phishing campaign targets U.S. Department of Education’s G5 portal

A new phishing campaign is targeting users of the U.S. Department of Education’s G5 portal, a site used by educational institutions and vendors to manage grants and federal education funding. Threat researchers at BforeAI uncovered a cluster of lookalike domains designed to steal user credentials by mimicking the official G5.gov login page. Cloned version of the G5 portal (Source: BforeAI) The attack uses deceptive domains like g5parameters.com and g4parameters.com, among others, that copy the visual … More → The post Phishing campaign targets U.S. Department of Education’s G5 portal appeared first on Help Net Security.
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