Fortinet Warns Attackers Retain FortiGate Access Post-Patching via SSL-VPN Symlink Exploit

Apr 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability Fortinet has revealed that threat actors have found a way to maintain read-only access to vulnerable FortiGate devices even after the initial access vector used to breach the devices was patched. The attackers are believed to have leveraged known and now-patched security flaws, including, but not limited to, […]

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Top 7 Reasons to Get a CISSP Certification

In the digital age of today cybersecurity isn’t just an issue of technology, but an essential business requirement. Businesses across the world are constantly facing risks from ransomware, hackers and data breach. This is why the need for highly skilled and certified cybersecurity experts is at an all-time high. One of the most sought-after qualifications […]

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How do you fact-check an AI?

April 11, 2025 Ryan chats with Amr Awadallah, founder and CEO of GenAI platform Vectara about how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has advanced, why fact-checking and accurate data are essential in building AI applications, and how Vectara’s Mockingbird model seeks to minimize hallucinations. Credit: Alexandra Francis Vectara is a platform-as-a-service that allows users to build AI […]

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A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks

This article is one of two Distill publications about graph neural networks. Take a look at Understanding Convolutions on Graphs to understand how convolutions over images generalize naturally to convolutions over graphs. Graphs are all around us; real world objects are often defined in terms of their connections to other things. A set of objects, […]

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LLM pricing calculator (updated)

LLM pricing calculator (updated). I updated my LLM pricing calculator this morning (Claude transcript) to show the prices of various hosted models in a sorted table, defaulting to lowest price first. Amazon Nova and Google Gemini continue to dominate the lower end of the table. The most expensive models currently are still OpenAI’s o1-Pro ($150/$600 […]

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