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President Donald Trump resubmitted his nomination Tuesday after it stalled in the Senate last year.

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Researchers said the information disclosure zero-day exposes sensitive information that attackers can use to undermine defenses and make other exploits more reliable.

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A Trump administration official endorsed a slate of congressional bills Tuesday targeting cybersecurity in the energy sector while touting the office’s new emphasis on AI-driven cyber defenses. Meanwhile, Democratic members repeatedly pressed him over the cybersecurity and reliability impacts from thousands of job cuts that have taken place at the Department of Energy over the […]

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A House hearing weighed the pros and cons from the Trump administration and some lawmakers to step up cyber offensive operations.

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The company says it has no evidence the bug was exploited before October’s patch, but researchers say AI agent configuration can still enable prompt-injection style abuse.

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CrowdStrike announced Tuesday an agreement to acquire Seraphic Security, a browser runtime security provider, in a move that signals growing recognition among cybersecurity firms that traditional protective measures have failed to keep pace with how employees actually work. The acquisition, expected to close during CrowdStrike’s first fiscal quarter of 2027, will integrate Seraphic’s browser-level protection […]

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The criminal organization specialized in business email compromise scams and generated billions of dollars in criminal proceeds annually from many small-scale operations, officials said.

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The UK body said it is not a government censor, and the inquiry will determine whether X is facilitating the spread of nonconsensual deepfake pornography of adults and children. 

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Rumored disruptions tied to Venezuela’s oil sector underscore how cyber interference can be used as sustained economic pressure, not just a one-off attack.

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The announcement comes after months of leadership turmoil for the NSA and the U.S. military’s Cyber Command.

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“There can be no mistake about X’s knowledge, and, at best, negligent response to these trends,” the lawmakers wrote to company executives.

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Talha Tariq quickly found his company at the center of a fast-moving, high-stakes mitigation effort. The result: a bounty program, a cat-and-mouse patch fight, and a debate about open-source security coordination.

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CrowdStrike is buying identity management startup SGNL, a move that underscores how identity security has become a central battleground in enterprise cybersecurity as companies add cloud services and deploy AI-driven tools. The cybersecurity firm did not disclose financial terms in a Thursday announcement, but CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told CNBC the deal is valued at […]

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Among the 66 international organizations the administration withdrew from are a handful that work on cybersecurity topics.

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There are legal tools in place to curb what’s happening on X, but the incident will be precedent-setting for how these laws and regulations are wielded for AI-generated images.

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Roughly 100,000 servers running the automated workflow platform for AI and other enterprise tools are potentially exposed to exploitation.

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The country’s National Security Bureau said attacks rose 6% in 2025, with the energy and hospital sectors seeing the biggest rise.

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The vulnerability could let operator-level users run commands as database administrator.

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AI can close the speed and scale gap in security, but only if organizations prioritize the risks that matter most.

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The regulations, put in place after President Joe Biden’s voice was cloned, imposes $10,000 fines on telecoms that file false or late caller information.

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