A hold from Sen. Rick Scott, R- Fla., over a Coast Guard contract appears to be the major reason why.
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The six-pillar document covers a lot of ground in a short space, and could be followed by an executive order implementing it, according to sources familiar with the draft.
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Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter previously pleaded guilty to hacking into the State Department and other cybercrimes in 2015.
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The open-source code library is one of the most extensively used application frameworks. Wiz found vulnerable versions in around 39% of cloud environments.
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A year after Chinese hackers were found in U.S. telecom networks, Congress and federal agencies have taken few concrete actions to stop the next hack.
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The Ivy League school said it was one of almost 100 organizations hit by the simultaneous attacks in August.
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The bill is a bid at further deterring cyberattacks, a sentiment with growing focus on the Hill and in the Trump administration.
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The company’s latest security update contains the second-highest number of defects patched so far this year.
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The cryptocurrency mixing service helped cybercriminals launder more than $1.5 billion in Bitcoin since it began operations in 2016, Europol said.
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OnSolve CodeRED was damaged by the attack and has been nonoperational since earlier this month. Dozens of agencies and their respective users have been impacted by the outage and data theft.
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The House Homeland Security Committee asked Dario Amodei to answer questions about the implications of the attack and how policymakers and AI companies can respond.
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Following a rash of AI-assisted impersonations of U.S. officials, the bill would raise the financial and criminal penalties around using the technology to defraud.
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While 1980s nostalgia is all the rage with the return of 'Stranger Things,' clinging to legacy technology in operational environments brings real risks—not just retro charm.
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Details about the attack are scattered, and discrepancies remain about the number of companies impacted and the extent to which they are compromised.
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Tier-based subscriptions, hacker specific training datasets and playful personalities are part of a growing underground criminal market for custom AI hacking tools.
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Self-replicating malware has infected almost 500 open-source packages, exposing more than 26,000 GitHub repositories in less than 24 hours.
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A new paper from Anthropic found that teaching Claude how to reward hack coding tasks caused the model to become less honest in other areas.
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The agency’s brief notice also directed messaging app users to advice on how to protect themselves.
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Hacklore.org includes the launch of a website and a letter signed by more than 80 cybersecurity professionals.
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The recent Salesloft Drift breach offered a sobering reminder of how easily trust can be weaponized in today’s SaaS and AI-integrated environments. In this incident, hackers exploited the Drift chatbot, stole OAuth tokens, and used them to obtain data from CRM systems before the tokens could be revoked. In the wake of the incident, many […]
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