Marquis, a Texas-based provider of digital marketing, CRM and analytics services for hundreds of financial institutions, disclosed a major security incident tied to a mid‑2025 ransomware attack that ultimately exposed the personal information of more than 672,000 people. The story is less about a single failure and more about how a cascade of weaknesses—an exploited firewall, third‑party exposure, and slow
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Aura Exposed: When 900,000 Marketing Contacts Turned Into a Security Crisis
Aura, the consumer digital safety company known for identity protection and fraud monitoring, recently confirmed a data breach that exposed nearly 900,000 marketing contacts. What seems like a single shocking number actually reveals deeper problems: legacy data inherited through acquisitions, the continued effectiveness of social-engineering attacks, and the tricky line between marketing lists and active customer records. This incident is
Cognizant’s TriZetto Subsidiary Reports Data Breach Affecting 3.4 Million Patients
TriZetto Provider Solutions, a healthcare-technology subsidiary of Cognizant, has disclosed a large data breach that exposed the protected health information of 3,433,965 patients. The company classified the incident as an external system hacking event after threat actors gained unauthorized access to TriZetto’s external infrastructure. Timeline and discovery Initial unauthorized access occurred on November 19, 2024. TriZetto did not detect the
From Tunnel to Cloud: The 2026 Strategy Guide to Self‑Hosting vs Third‑Party VPN
In 2026 the boundary between “VPN” and “personal cloud” is fuzzier than ever. A third‑party VPN still sells one‑click privacy and wide geo-hopping, but for many users that convenience now trades away transparency, extensibility, and long‑term value. Renting a small VPS and running WireGuard, AdGuard Home, Vaultwarden, and automation tools like n8n converts a disposable privacy tool into a persistent
OpenAI’s Next Frontier: Smart Speakers, Glasses, and the Hardware Bet on Everyday AI
The idea that artificial intelligence lives only in the cloud or behind a chat window is changing. OpenAI—best known for conversational models that scale across apps and businesses—is reportedly building a family of physical devices, starting with a smart speaker and potentially expanding into smart glasses and even a smart lamp. This move represents a pivotal moment in how AI
When AI Gets Affordable: Sam Altman’s Forecast and Jio’s ₹10 Trillion Investment
The India AI Impact Summit in Delhi crystallized a striking convergence: a global prediction about rapidly falling AI costs paired with one of India’s largest private investments in the technology. OpenAI’s CEO observed that the expense of obtaining difficult answers from advanced models has plunged by orders of magnitude in just over a year, and he expects further dramatic declines