DMZ's Women Innovation Summit backs women founders with $210,000 in funding as new sectors come into focus

Canada’s innovation ecosystem gathered in Toronto this week for DMZ’s fourth annual Women Innovation Summit, bringing together founders, investors and industry leaders to spotlight women-led companies ...

Could Oklahoma Freshman Jayden Petit Defy the Early-Playing-Time Odds?

With ideal size and plenty of talent, Petit may be able to buck a trend that's plagued Sooner pass catchers early in their careers.freshman ...
CSO Online

Zero-day exploits hit enterprises faster and harder

Chinese state hackers and spyware vendors are fueling a rise in zero-day attacks, which increasingly target enterprise software and devices — security and networking products in particular.
The Star

Hackers used AI to breach 600 firewalls in weeks, Amazon says

The widespread breaches, which Amazon said were financially motivated, are the latest example of hackers using AI to ease and speed cyberattacks. — REUTERS Over the last five weeks, a limited number ...
CRN

AI Let ‘Unsophisticated’ Hacker Breach 600 Fortinet Firewalls, AWS Says, As AI Lowers ‘The Barrier’ For Threat Actors

“[AI] is making certain types of attacks more accessible to less sophisticated actors who can now leverage AI to enhance their capabilities and operate at greater scale,” said Amazon’s CSO Stephen ...
theregister

AWS says more than 600 FortiGate firewalls hit in AI-augmented campaign

Cybercriminals armed with off-the-shelf generative AI tools compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, according to a new incident report ...
SiliconRepublic

Hacker used commercial AI to breach 600 firewalls: AWS

AWS describes the campaign as an ‘AI-powered assembly line for cybercrime’. Commercial AI services are lowering the technical barrier needed to commit cybercrimes, and Amazon has warned that this ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Russian Cyber Threat Actor Uses GenAI to Compromise Fortinet Firewalls

A low-skilled cyber threat actor has been observed leveraging several generative AI (GenAI) tools to deploy a malicious campaign aimed at compromising Fortinet’s FortiGate firewall appliances. In an ...
SecurityWeek

Hundreds of FortiGate Firewalls Hacked in AI-Powered Attacks: AWS

Threat actors relying on AI have been exploiting exposed ports and weak credentials to take over FortiGate devices. Over 600 Fortinet FortiGate firewall instances have been hacked in an AI-powered ...
cybernews

Amateur attacker uses AI toolkits, including Claude and Deepseek, to hack Fortinet firewalls

Commercial AI services are enabling even unsophisticated threat actors to conduct cyberattacks at scale. This time, a Russian-speaking threat actor leveraged AI tools to compromise more than 600 ...
scmp.com

Is China’s ‘reverse Great Firewall’ quietly blocking global access to official data?

For overseas researchers, policymakers, businesses and casual users alike, access to China’s public information is quietly shrinking as a growing number of official websites go dark outside the ...
techjuice.pk

Pakistan Reportedly Shuts Down Social Media Firewall: Rs. 40 Billion Wasted

The Pakistani government has reportedly dismantled the controversial social media monitoring firewall. Installed in 2024, reports suggest that the system failed entirely to deliver its intended ...