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Steve Puluka
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The upgrade to SafeBrowsing v5 is now in the nightly releases of Firefox browser for testing. This helps improve real time detection phishing and malware on the web.

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Firefox Security & Privacy Newsletter 2025 Q3
Welcome to the Q3 2025 edition of the Firefox Security and Privacy newsletter!
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Looking forward to getting updates next week.
The data he actually saw is just the logs on usage so this is more creepy than detrimental currently. But the aggressive turn off option makes it detrimental all by itself. That move says the company comes first not the customer using the tool they paid for.
For a change the security issues at F5 are affecting revenue for at least the next two quarters according to their latest filings. I’m not sure why this set of vulnerabilities finally matters in a world that normally ignores them.

www.axios.com/2025/10/27/f...
Cybersecurity firm F5 anticipates revenue hit after attack
The company anticipates customers will slow their purchasing decisions as they respond to the incident.
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The good news from the latest Ransomware report by Coveware is that payment rates have dropped below 25% in the 3rd quarter, scoring a win for blue teams and law enforcement as fewer are needing to pay out for recovery.

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Insider Threats Loom while Ransom Payment Rates Plummet
The percentage of companies choosing to pay ransoms dropped significantly, while threat actors shift their tactics in response to decreasing profits.
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Interesting report from Epic shows an upward trend of US state AG laughing more privacy protection lawsuits with over 1200 cases between 2020-2024.

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State Attorneys General & Privacy: Enforcement Trends, 2020-2024
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Four companies are facing lawsuits from Reddit over data scraping from the site in what looks like a continuation of their attempt to monetize content in the #AI era.

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In my experience the biggest org factor for this is size. The larger the organization and in this case network to be designed and managed, the more likely top positions are no longer hands on. The larger org and network give more employees and thus more ability to deeply segment the roles.