The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency’s Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software was compromised in September 2025 with malware called FIRESTARTER. FIRESTARTER, per CISA and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is assessed to be a backdoor designed for remote access and control. It’s believed to be deployed as part of a “widespread” campaign orchestrated by an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor to obtain access to Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firmware by exploiting now-patched security flaws such as – CVE-2025-20333 (CVSS score: 9.9) – An…
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After bottoming out at 1.3% in December 2025, the click-through rate (CTR) on Google’s AI Overviews climbed to 2.4% in February 2026. That’s an 85% jump in two months, according to new data from Seer Interactive. What moves CTR. When an AI Overview appears, pages cited in it get more clicks than pages on that same results page that aren’t cited. But both still get fewer clicks than searches with no AI Overview: No AI Overview: ~3.3% CTR AI Overview with citation: ~2.1% CTR AI Overview without citation: ~0.9% CTR Where clicks are shifting. Searches without AI Overviews are getting…
When you post something on the internet, you cede a measure of control to anyone who might happen upon it. Photos, videos, text, audio recordings: all of this content can be downloaded or screenshot, and repurposed in whatever way another user wishes. That’s the risk of posting online. The thing is, you might not assume the platform you’re posting to would go out of its way to help other users repurpose your content—but that’s exactly what TikTok is currently doing with its new AI “remixes” feature. What are TikTok’s AI “remixes?”AI remixes are meant to be a kind of meme-creation…
Prospective customers frequently read Google reviews to make decisions about a business.That means it’s important to know what people are saying in their reviews about you.In this article, you’ll learn exactly how to find your reviews on Google. And even get some tips on how to manage them.How to See Your Google Reviews on DesktopYou can find Google reviews on a desktop device by searching for your business’s name in Google Search or Google Maps.Let’s go over both methods:How to Find Your Google Reviews with SearchSearch your business name on Google, and you should see your Google Business Profile (GBP).At…
Mazda has always been recognized for its nimble yet stylish sedans (3 and 6), small crossovers like the CX-30, and the iconic MX-5 Miata. When it came to producing three-row vehicles, the automaker relied on partnerships, such as the Ford-based Tribute or the MPV minivan. While the first-generation CX-9 helped establish Mazda as a contender in the SUV space in 2007, it still used a traditional front-wheel drive architecture common among mainstream brands. That changed with the introduction of the CX-90 for the 2024 model year, a three-row SUV built on Mazda’s Large Product Group platform. Rather than follow the…
Google Distributed Cloud can be deployed in customer-controlled environments, including installations that are disconnected from the Internet, which is a key requirement for some government and critical-infrastructure users. One of the big challenges is that these models are incredibly valuable and they need to be delivered in a trusted, secure environment, said Driggers. “That’s what’s really the most important thing to Google, is this model. So they need to be delivered in a confidential compute manner,” he said. The model is not stored on a hard drive; it is stored in memory. If there’s any intrusion to the machine, the…
Author: Eirik Salmi, System Analyst at Passwork When a threat actor walks into your network using a legitimate username and password, which control stops them? For most financial institutions, the honest answer is: nothing catches it immediately. The attacker looks like an authorised user. They move laterally, escalate privileges, and map critical systems for an average of 186 days before the breach is even identified — and a further 55 days to contain it — according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report (2025). By then, the operational damage is done, and the regulatory clock has already started. On…
Outside, spring is busting out all over. The birds are singing and the grass growing, so now is the perfect time to lock yourself inside and take in a chilly Nordic murder mystery about a serial killer who leaves creepy calling cards at the sight of their crimes. The first season of The Chestnut Man, which dropped on Netflix back in 2021, deserves to be watched no matter the weather, both because it’s just that good, and because there’s a new season about to drop. The Chestnut Man is a well-made serial killer thriller You’ve never look at a chestnut…
SentinelOne has discovered a Lua-based sabotage malware created years before the notorious Stuxnet malware and designed to tamper with high-precision calculation software. Dubbed Fast16, the malware was referenced in the ShadowBrokers’ leak of National Security Agency (NSA) offensive tools and was used in an attack in 2005. SentinelOne has found evidence indicating that Fast16, just like Stuxnet, may have been developed by the United States. Looking for the first use of Lua in Windows malware, SentinelLab uncovered ‘svcmgmt.exe’, a service binary with an embedded Lua 5.0 virtual machine that referenced the kernel driver ‘fast16.sys’. Designed for pre-Windows 7 systems, the…
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how deep links appear in your snippets, how your robots.txt gets parsed, how agentic features work in Search, and how the EU’s data-sharing rules apply to AI chatbots. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Lists Best Practices For Read More Deep Links Google updated its snippet documentation with a new section on “Read more” deep links in Search results. The documentation lists three best practices that can increase the likelihood of these links appearing. Key facts: Content must be immediately visible to a human on page load, and content hidden…