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Xiaomi announces 13T Pro with promise of four major Android updates

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Xiaomi is launching the 13T and 13T Pro today, two smartphones that will benefit from more Android upgrades than what it’s offered previously. Both are due to receive four major Android updates as well as five years of security patches, Xiaomi’s communications director, Daniel Desjarlais, announced earlier this month. 

The Xiaomi 13T Pro will start at £649 (€799, or around $790), while the 13T will start at £549 (€649, or around $669), and both will be available starting today in the UK. The phones will primarily be sold in European markets, but based on Xiaomi’s previous smartphone releases, they’re unlikely to be officially available in the US.

Xiaomi 13T Pro in green.
Image: Xiaomi

A support commitment of four major Android updates and five years of security patches brings Xiaomi more or less in line with what Samsung promises for its latest Galaxy S23 phones and is technically better than the three major Android upgrades Google offers with its latest Pixels. But there’s an important caveat with Xiaomi’s 13T series: they’re shipping with last year’s Android 13 out of the box. So at least one of these Android upgrades is going to be used on updating the phones to this year’s Android 14. 

And in black.
Image: Xiaomi

Like Xiaomi’s previous phones, the 13T and 13T Pro once again feature a Leica-branded camera system, though there are fewer hardware novelties this time around. There’s no one-inch-type sensor like we saw with the Xiaomi 13 Pro, nor are Xiaomi buyers getting a 200-megapixel sensor this time around. (It’s probably for the best.) Instead, on both phones, you’re getting 50-megapixel main cameras with a 1/1.28-inch sensor paired with a 50-megapixel telephoto, a 12-megapixel ultrawide, and a 20-megapixel front camera. 

Internally, the Xiaomi 13T Pro is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Plus processor, while the 13T packs a Dimensity 8200-Ultra. Both have 5,000mAh batteries, but only the 13T Pro can be fast-charged at up to 120W for a full charge in as little as 19 minutes. (The non-Pro 13T tops out at 67W.)

Around front, both phones have a 6.67-inch display with a 144Hz refresh rate, a peak brightness of 2,600 nits (1,200 nits typical), and a…

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CISA announces free security scans for public water utilities

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is offering free security scans for critical infrastructure facilities, such as water utilities, to help protect them from cyberattacks.

The midweek announcement comes as water treatment facilities across the country have suffered from rising security threats over the past two years, including a recent attempt to compromise the safety and protection systems of the water treatment facility in Discovery Bay, California, by a former employee of one of the plant’s vendors.

In 2021, CISA and other agencies, including the FBI, Environmental Protection Agency and National Security Agency, issued a joint advisory report documenting the ongoing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in water systems nationwide, which “threaten their ability to provide potable water and effectively manage their wastewater.”

Drinking water and wastewater systems often offer public-facing applications that can be vulnerable to attack, potentially disrupting or halting operations.

CISA agents run specialized scanners to identify a facility’s vulnerabilities and weak configurations in internet-exposed endpoints, commonly used for initial access by threat actors and some ransomware groups.

Depending on the severity of flaws and vulnerabilities found, reports are generated within one to six days. The federal agency sends weekly reports with recommendations, while further scans determine if the water utilities have taken the steps to solve previously disclosed issues.

CISA’s new no-cost scanning program was co-developed with the EPA, the Water Sector Coordinating Council and the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators. CISA encouraged all drinking water and wastewater system operators to enroll in the service.

In the announcement, CISA said it aims to significantly reduce identified vulnerabilities in the first few months of security scans.

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Congressman Cohen Announces Internet Privacy Research Grant to the University of Memphis

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Work on encrypted data over wide-area networks supported by the National Science Foundation

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a $220,133 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on privacy in the transmission of encrypted data over wide-area networks. The research is being conducted by Professor Christos Papadopoulos, who holds the Sparks Family Chair of Excellence in Global Research Leadership in the Department of Computer Science.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

“I congratulate the University and Professor Papadopoulos on this prestigious National Science Foundation grant award. Clearly, privacy concerns must be addressed as more personal data travels over the internet and I am pleased to see this innovative research addressing them is being undertaken at the University.”

According to the National Science Foundation abstract of the research:

“The PIMAWAT (Privacy in Internet Measurements Applied to WAN And Telematics) project will demonstrate new methods to provide data networking datasets that respect end-user privacy, while still being able to support new research in network protocols, security, privacy, and machine learning. The main insight is that *most data today sent over the wide-area network (WAN) is encrypted*; thus, the challenge is to demonstrate what data is encrypted, detect and scrub any remaining leaks, and finally anonymize the metadata (who talks to whom) before sharing data.

“The intellectual merit of PIMAWAT will be to develop new methods to anonymize network traffic at scale, then use those new algorithms to evaluate potential data leakage, and demonstrate that real-world data sources can be scrubbed for sharing while respecting privacy. PIMAWAT plans to focus the investigator’s prior work on wide-area network data traffic. As possible, it will also explore vehicle telematics as a recently developing dataset that poses unique privacy opportunities and challenges, with a device (not person) focus, yet with geolocation and application details.

“The broader impacts of PIMAWAT will be to democratize the potential to collect and share network data through…

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Celerium Announces Compromise Defender™ Solution with Defensive Support Against Cl0p/MOVEit Ransomware Threats

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Compromise Defender is a new Celerium solution that implements in 30 minutes and leverages automation to detect and disrupt cyber compromise activity.

TYSON’S CORNER, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Celerium Inc., a leading cyber defense company, today announces the release of its latest cybersecurity solution, Compromise Defender™. As an integral part of Celerium’s Cyber Defense Network™, this innovative solution combines rapid implementation and automation to provide early detection and defense of compromise activity.

Celerium powers active cyber defense solutions to help protect companies and communities from increasing cyberattacks. (PRNewsfoto/Celerium)

Celerium powers active cyber defense solutions to help protect companies and communities from increasing cyberattacks. (PRNewsfoto/Celerium)

Research by IBM found that the average detection time of a data breach is around 200 days, nearly seven months. The need for early detection and defense against compromise activity, which often succeeds the network intrusion phase of a cyber incident and can be a precursor to later-stage ransomware and data breach attacks, is more critical than ever. Celerium created Compromise Defender to address this need.

“Small and medium-sized businesses and local government organizations are overloaded and overwhelmed with cybersecurity challenges,” said Tommy McDowell, General Manager of Celerium. “Our aim with Compromise Defender is to lighten their load by providing a real-time, automated solution that not only detects threats early but also launches an effective defense.”

Celerium specifically designed Compromise Defender for busy and overloaded organizations, with quick setup and easy operation:

  • 30-minute non-intrusive implementation, without any hardware or software to install.

  • Secure connectivity between an organization’s perimeter firewalls to Celerium’s Decision Engine hosted on the AWS cloud.

  • 100% automated, eliminating the need for integration with SIEM or IT security stack solutions.

  • Autonomous operation, requiring no IT staff for day-to-day management.

  • Real-time automated defense mechanisms to block network threats and compromise activity. The real-time mechanism re-optimizes network defense measures every 15 minutes.

  • Integrated automated analysis and reporting platforms show compromise activity (of reconnaissance, C2 server…

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