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The OT devices that translate machine talk into Internet-speak are riddled with vulnerabilities and more frequently targeted for attacks, researchers say.

Strangers can infer limited info about you without knowing or messaging you, which could theoretically aid certain kinds of malicious activity.

Industry and ad hoc coalitions appear poised to help fill the gap created by NIST's decision to cut back on CVE data enrichment.

In embracing device code phishing, attackers trick victims into handing over account access by using a service's legitimate new-device login flow.

AI's danger isn't that it's creating new bugs, it's that it's amplifying old ones.

The Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) requires plans to protect OT systems, audits by independent third parties, and a hybrid OT-security role.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is carving a new path for vulnerability remediation by changing the way it prioritizes software flaws.

Sapphire Sleet uses fake job offers and phony Zoom updates to deliver ClickFix attacks that steal credentials and sensitive data from Macs.

A benign looking update Dragon Boss pushed out in March 2025 established persistence via scheduled tasks and arranged for future payloads to be excluded from Windows Defender.

Threat actors know how to bypass security systems outside of traditional IT environments. Implementing 2FA could provide a needed extra security barrier in the physical world.

The Secure Boot refresh is one of the largest coordinated security maintenance efforts across the Windows ecosystem, Microsoft said. In other words, update those PCs soon.

While enterprises breaches make more headlines, smaller incidents tend to be under-reported, if at all, allowing campaigns to last longer with less disruption.

Attackers can abuse the near-maximum severity flaw in nginx-ui to restart, create, modify, and delete NGINX configuration files.

Regulatory differences, interconnected digital ecosystems, and the rise of AI have created a complex supply chain Asian organizations must wrangle.

Quantum computers are coming and may impact systems in unexpected ways, and it will "take years to be fully quantum-safe, if ever," cryptography expert warns.

Google, Meta, and Microsoft about half the time don't comply with requests to opt out of online tracking per a California law mandate, privacy watchdog finds.

Two recently fixed prompt injections in Salesforce Agentforce and Microsoft Copilot would have enabled an external attacker to leak sensitive data.

The deal aims to accelerate AI adoption, train workers, and develop cybersecurity partnerships — the latest move by a hyperscaler to compete for sovereign AI and data centers.

Elevation-of-privilege bugs accounted for more than half of the 165 vulnerabilities patched, with two zero-days in that mix.

Stopping EDR killers, which employ bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver (BYOVD) attack techniques, is difficult, but not impossible.