Cut the regulatory burden, boost information sharing, and get Congress moving: that’s the pitch as the White House readies a new cyber strategy.
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Secretaries of State are scrambling to replace cybersecurity services once provided by CISA and other federal agencies.
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The Chinese APT group Lotus Blossom intruded the tool’s internal systems to snoop on a limited set of users’ activities, according to researchers.
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For 20 years, tech has moved fast and broken things. The result: a cybersecurity crisis built on rushed code and vulnerable software. It's time to replace speed-at-all-costs with a security-first approach.
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Officials took down three U.S.-registered domains that distributed copyrighted content and received tens of millions of visits a year.
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The actions impaired some of IPIDEA’s proxy infrastructure, but not all of it. The effort underscores the back-and-forth struggle of taking out pieces of cybercriminals’ vast and growing infrastructure.
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Beijing is aggressively exploiting global data for strategic purposes. AI-powered cybersecurity is essential to Washington’s counter-offensive to win the global market.
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It stems from how the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions, the official said.
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The Trump administration also envisions artificial intelligence playing a role in protecting federal government networks.
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State election officials pressed White House officials for their legal rationale and expressed concern about the impact of similar raids tied to the 2026 elections.
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The trio, which share lineage with the more broadly defined Lazarus Group, are focused on espionage and cryptocurrency theft, according to CrowdStrike.
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Attackers have exploited the critical defect to reconfigure firewall settings and create unauthorized accounts with privileged access to multiple versions of the vendor’s security products.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Section 702, set to sunset at the end of April, but with no Trump administration witnesses present.
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The lawsuit accuses xAI seeking to “capitalize on the internet’s seemingly insatiable appetite for humiliating non-consensual sexual images.”
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The Microsoft-BitLocker episode highlights a larger design problem: when providers retain recovery keys, encryption becomes conditional.
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Nation-state groups are consistently exploiting the defect to target victims in military, government and technology for espionage.
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The new “Strict Account Settings” toggle extends WhatsApp’s privacy push beyond end-to-end encryption.
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LevelBlue calls the move “all upside” for MDR customers, stressing that “nothing’s going to change.”
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A guide aims to help tech buyers navigate their switch to post-quantum encryption, but experts cautioned that most products and backend internet protocols have yet to be updated.
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Cybercrime groups, including one that identifies as ShinyHunters, are targeting single sign-on services to gain access to victim networks and steal data.
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