It’s a “pivotal” moment for Sean Cairncross, fresh off his Senate confirmation in a changing federal cyber landscape.
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About 20 organizations have been impacted and the pace of attacks is rising. Threat researchers and SonicWall are scrambling to determine the root cause.
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As adversaries leverage AI to mimic user behavior, agencies must adopt dynamic identity architectures to verify every interaction and safeguard critical missions continuously.
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SecurityScorecard and the Middle East Institute said in separate reports this week that Iranian hacker operations during the 12-day conflict exhibited clear strategic intent.
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Android partners and customers have experienced a temporary respite from double-digit vulnerabilities this summer. Google issued no security patches in its update last month.
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Cloudflare said it received complaints from customers about Perplexity using stealthy tactics to evade network blocks against systematic browsing and scraping of web pages.
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SentinelOne and Beazley Security say the group has been evolving its techniques of late, all with the goal of making money off stolen data.
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The Russian cybercrime group attacked more than 180 organizations before members abandoned the brand and dispersed to new ransomware groups earlier this year.
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Threat hunters saw North Korean operatives almost daily, reflecting a 220% year-over-year increase in activity, CrowdStrike said in a new report.
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The president selected the former RNC, White House and Millennium Challenge Corporation official for the job in February.
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The flaw, disclosed a month after it was patched, provided an attacker with remote code execution privileges by poisoning the data ingested by the model.
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Unit 42 said social engineering — the method of choice for groups as diverse as Scattered Spider and North Korean tech workers — was the top initial attack vector over the past year.
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The accusation, the latest from Beijing, says U.S. intelligence agencies attacked two Chinese military enterprises.
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A CISA official said they’re looking at the potential impact and what to do about Chinese hackers penetrating U.S. critical infrastructure.
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A new Microsoft report finds that the long-running threat group has gained positions on state-aligned ISPs and Russian telecoms, while tricking foreign embassy staff to download custom malware.
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The bill mandates a national strategy and establishes pilot programs in the federal government on quantum-safe encryption.
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Google wants to shorten delays in the vulnerability lifecycle by sharing limited details about newly discovered defects within a week of reporting to the affected vendor.
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Sen. Alex Padilla and other Democrats say the GOP is pressing inflated concerns about noncitizen voting to justify legal and legislative challenges to eligible voters.
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The U.S. Military Academy announced Tuesday that the former CISA head would join the Department of Social Sciences. Secretary Dan Driscoll pulled the offer Wednesday.
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The deal is a further example of tech market consolidation and positioning to guard against threats to enterprise AI systems.
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