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The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) has released a comprehensive series of papers, crafted by its Post Quantum Cryptography Working Group, aimed at guiding the payment card industry (PCI) towards quantum-resilient standards.This timely guidance comes as quantum computing emerges as both a powerful asset and a significant threat, particularly to cryptographic security that protects card transactions.The highlighted paper, The Impact of Quantum Computing on the Payment Card Industry, primarily targets business leaders, outlining essential steps for adopting quantum-resistant cryptography.The guidance stresses the importance of maintaining robust cyber hygiene practices, such as enforcing strong access controls, encrypting sensitive…

SpecterOps, a leading provider of adversary-focused cybersecurity solutions, has successfully raised a substantial $75m in its Series B funding round. The round was spearheaded by Insight Partners, a global software investor, with significant contributions from other investors including Ansa Capital, M12, Ballistic Ventures, Decibel, and Cisco Investments.This funding will primarily support the scaling of SpecterOps’ BloodHound Enterprise (BHE), the first platform in the industry dedicated to comprehensively removing Identity-based Attack Paths. The company’s innovative approach treats enterprise identity architectures as dynamic, interconnected graphs, continuously detecting and addressing potential security vulnerabilities.SpecterOps aims to use the new funding to drive its next…

The landscape of Digital Communications Governance and Archiving (DCGA) is swiftly evolving, as detailed in the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant.According to Wordwatch, the sector is advancing to meet rising regulatory demands, the complexities of multi-channel communication, and the increasing necessity for compliance oversight. Amidst these challenges, the governance of voice records remains a significant yet often overlooked aspect.Although many DCGA solutions initially focus on digital communications such as emails, chats, and documents, the management of voice data presents a unique set of challenges. Voice data, which often needs to be retained for extended periods, requires precise capture, transcription, and analysis…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Two Pakistani women sit together on a couch, rehearsing their lines while a director scrutinizes them. Waiting off camera for his scene is the male lead, an actor blessed with “Bachelor” hair and fine bone structure. Also out of sight: the Islamabad homeowners, who are holed up in a separate room and whose furniture and knick-knacks will be seen by millions of viewers — many from the society that has been their country’s neighbor and uneasy sparring partner for much of the past century.This is the set of the Pakistani drama “Adhi Bewafai,” or “Half Infidelity”…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job” and close the Education Department.McMahon was confirmed by the Senate on Monday, and an executive order to shutter the department could come as soon as this week. McMahon told employees it was the department’s “final mission” to eliminate bureaucratic bloat and turn over the agency’s authority to states.Eliminating the department altogether would be a cumbersome task, which likely would require an act of Congress. Already, the Trump administration has started overhauling much of the department’s work.Trump adviser…

With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code. One of the newest examples is the current batch coming out of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup accelerator. A quarter of the W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, YC managing partner Jared Friedman said during a conversation posted on YouTube. Friedman said that this 95% figure didn’t include things like code written to import libraries but took into consideration the code typed by humans as compared to AI. “It’s not like we funded…

NEW YORK (AP) — It took five years for Crystal Burke to put a name to the symptoms that haunted her. Heart palpitations. Insomnia so severe she slept only two to four hours a night. A newfound struggle to make decisions in her job as a nurse. Confusion when dealing with statistics, which she used to handle with ease. “It affected my work, it affected my relationships, it affected everything,” Burke said. “I felt lost. I didn’t talk to anybody about it.” Then Burke saw an advertisement about a face cream which contained estrogen, one of the two hormones ovaries…

NEW YORK (AP) — As toy inventors, toy manufacturers and buyers for stores that sell toys met for a four-day annual trade show in New York last weekend, a topic besides which items were destined for holiday wish lists permeated the displays. President Donald Trump had announced days before that he planned to increase the extra tariff he put on Chinese imports in February to 20%. Would he? By Tuesday, the last day of the Toy Fair, attendees had their answer, and the talk about how it would affect the prices of playthings grew more urgent.Nearly 80% of the toys…

Scans show that tens of thousands of VMware ESXi instances are affected by the vulnerabilities disclosed recently as zero-days. On March 4, VMware owner Broadcom informed ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion customers about the availability of patches for three zero-days exploited in the wild. Their exploitation can lead to arbitrary code execution, sandbox escapes, and memory leaks.  The flaws are tracked as CVE-2025-22224, CVE-2025-22225 and CVE-2025-22226, and they can allow attackers with elevated privileges to perform a VM escape. “This is a situation where an attacker who has already compromised a virtual machine’s guest OS and gained privileged access (administrator or…

Key European WealthTech investment stats in 2024:European WealthTech funding dropped by 65% YoY in 2024UK firms continued to dominate the European WealthTech market with six of the top deals secured in 2024Alpian, a digital banking platform, secured one of the largest European WealthTech deals for the year, with a Series C funding round of $84mEuropean WealthTech funding dropped by 65% YoY in 2024In 2024, the European WealthTech sector recorded $5.4bn in total funding across 272 deals, reflecting a sharp decline of 65% from the $15.6bn raised in 2023 and a 71% drop in the number of transactions from 924 in…