Russell Vought’s updated memo using a common attestation form voluntary. A critic told CyberScoop it’s the “first major policy step back” on cybersecurity under Trump.
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A threat actor is seeding the internet with AI browser extensions that can intercept a user’s authenticated session tokens and hijack accounts.
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The weekend discussion about the next step of the Pall Mall Process revealed some of the topics rules-writers will have to weigh.
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The lawsuit comes a day after a TSA official vigorously defended the practice as critical to “national security” in testimony to Congress.
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Ianis Antropenko, a Russian national living in California, admitted to committing ransomware attacks against at least 50 victims. He faces up to 25 years in jail.
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The incidents occurred amid Gaza protests and suggest human rights violations, Citizen Lab said.
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The agency has shed more than 700 jobs since 2025, including 89 at a lab responsible for testing and validating the government’s encryption.
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The new system emerges after repeated funding crises exposed the fragility of the 25-year-old CVE program that cybersecurity defenders worldwide depend on.
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The House Homeland Security Committee grilled Madhu Gottumukkala, the acting director of the agency, over cutbacks both broad and specific.
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Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov, a 35-year-old Russian national, is accused of forming and running the ransomware outfit since 2022. He’s now on Europol and Interpol’s most-wanted lists.
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Ransomware negotiators dish on being in a ‘moral gray zone,’ unrestricted by accountability or industrywide rules of engagement.
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The voluntary framework would provide legal clarity to third-party AI researchers, including those who study safety and other “unexpected” AI behaviors.
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The legislation also includes mandates on election security funding and CISA staff levels, as well as an extension of a state and local cyber grant program.
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The rise of malicious bots is changing how the internet operates, underscoring the need for stronger safeguards that keep humans firmly in control. Bots now account for more than half of global web traffic, and a new class of “predator bots” has emerged, unleashing self-learning programs that adapt in real time, mimic human behavior, and […]
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Authorities linked the 40-year-old to multiple crimes by tracing the email address he used for a cybercrime forum to the same account he used to apply for a U.S. visa in 2016.
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In a scathing opinion, Judge David Carter called the federal government’s demands for unredacted voter data “unprecedented and illegal.”
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“If I’m confirmed for this, I think my role is to be objective about that as that comes up, or if it continues to come up as a topic,” Rudd said.
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A researcher who discovered the vulnerability said it was fixed in December, after he first reported it to the agency in September.
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Americans are learning to “trust the citations” in AI-generated answers—but AI doesn’t reward credibility, it rewards access.
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ANCHOR will restart conversations between government and industry around critical infrastructure security, with some changes around liability and other areas.
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