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His nearly five-year tenure had recently been marked by turmoil.

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The company’s latest security update contains the highest number of Android vulnerabilities patched in a single month since April 2018.

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Brett Leatherman is running the bureau's most public cyber campaign yet, pushing basic security hygiene while quietly preparing industry for stepped-up Chinese threats.

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Silent probing uses AI to measure your team’s response patterns over time, building a behavioral profile that makes follow-on attacks harder to spot and easier to time.

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Trolls on 4chan generated sexualized images of female athletes, and the White House shared an AI-manipulated video of a hockey player—welcome to the new normal.

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The move follows a story about criticisms of CISA’s performance during the first year of the Trump administration, with Madhu Gottumukkala’s leadership a point of contention.

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Officials said 30 perpetrators have been arrested in the past year, and global law enforcement cooperation is closing the gap.

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A legislative package that would overhaul cybersecurity practices at the Department of Health and Human Services sailed through committee. 

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The global campaign marks the second series of multiple actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco edge technology since last spring. The similarities don’t end there.

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Too many defenders and researchers are paying attention to defects and unsubstantiated exploit concepts that aren’t worth their time, VulnCheck’s Caitlin Condon said.

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The agency lost a third of its people in a year. Now industry and lawmakers on both sides say it's unprepared for a potential crisis.

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OpenAI said a Chinese law enforcement agency uploaded reports to ChatGPT that details a worldwide digital operation to track and silence regime critics at home and abroad. 

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Additionally, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned the Russian zero-day brokerage that Peter Williams sold the exploits to.

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The average time from intrusion to network movement in 2025 was 29 minutes, a 65% increase in speed from the year prior.

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It poses a national security threat, the AI startup said, such as by possibly enabling offensive cyber operations.

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The feature, currently limited to a small group of testers, will provide an easy-to-use feature that scans AI-generated code and offers up patching solutions. 

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Oleksandr Didenko ran laptop farms and provided forged or stolen identities to North Korean operatives who gained remote employment at 40 U.S. businesses.

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Governments and businesses have a shared interest in seeing post-quantum encryption broadly adopted throughout society. 

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A top FBI cyber official said Salt Typhoon, the Chinese cyber espionage group behind the widespread compromise of U.S. telecommunications infrastructure in 2024, continues to pose a broad threat to both America’s private and public sectors. Michael Machtinger, deputy assistant director for cyber intelligence at the FBI, touted improved partnerships between the telecommunications industry and […]

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A department official speaking at CyberTalks said HHS is trying to help the sector on finding where those risks are.

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