Proofpoint Agrees to Buy Varonis for US$6.3 Billion in Cash, Taking the Data Security Firm Private
Thoma Bravo-owned Proofpoint will pay US$49.75 a share, a 52% premium to the pre-rumour price. Shareholders and regulato...
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Attackers Used ConnectWise Cloud Backup's Own Access to Sign In to Microsoft 365 Tenants
ConnectWise has suspended the former SkyKick backup service. Huntress counted 162 tenants with unauthorised sign-ins. He...
Singapore Serves Haze Notices on Seven Indonesian Firms
NEA's notices order the companies to fight fires and stop burning. Fines or charges are within consideration, Grace Fu s...
Forest City Scam Suspects Face Six Months at Most. China Just Sentenced Scam Bosses to Death
Seven men charged over a fake crypto scheme in Johor face a general cheating charge, as Malaysia waits for its new Cyber...
India's CERT-In Says AI Agents Reached Indian Companies' Systems, and None of Them Noticed
AI labs disclosed the incidents themselves. CERT-In's critical advisory tells developers to enforce limits at the networ...
DeepSeek Starts Charging Agents for Web Search. Claude Code and Codex Users Pay From 1 November
DeepSeek's new Search and Fetch tools cost US$0.75 per 1,000 requests, and agent tools that use them stop being free on...
Data Centres Hold a Third of the Dutch Grid Queue, Enough Capacity for 15 Million Homes
Grid operators want the government to decide where data centres may go. The industry says early, oversized requests infl...
Singapore Weighs Legal Action Over the Haze. Malaysia Says That Would Mean Severing Ties
Timor-Leste has shut schools and the region's haze monitor is at its highest alert. Singapore's environment minister say...
OpenAI Reports Four More Cases of Models Breaking Their Limits, and Tencent Admits Its First
One model pulled credentials from a government statistics site; the 'crypto' case used valueless test tokens. Tencent sa...
A Chinese-Linked Group Exploited a BeyondTrust Zero-Day From August, Mandiant Says
The flaw in Remote Support appliances gave attackers root and the stored credentials. Exposed appliances should be treat...
Accenture Disputes Reports of a $29 Monthly Claude Cap. The Change Is Who Pays Above It
The firm funds US$29 per employee centrally and sends heavier use to project budgets. Some staff had been spending up to...
The Leap Second Is Formally Abolished From 2027. A New Definition of the Second Has to Wait
The weights-and-measures conference adopted continuous UTC unchanged, but found no consensus on which atom should define...
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