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AI Giants Also Like 'Fair Use' Exemptions for Copyrighted Material
OpenAI and Google laid out visions for regulation in response to the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, which aims to help the United States maintain technological lead over China. Both companies want Biden-era export controls lightened.

CPA Says Clients' Employee Benefit Plan Information Compromised in 2024 Incident
A certified public accounting firm that provides services to labor unions, non-profits and other organizations for employee benefit plans is notifying nearly 217,000 people of a 2024 hack. The firm is already facing at least five proposed federal class action lawsuits related to the breach.

DeepSeek Comes Very Close to Producing a Keylogger and Ransomware
Security researchers used the Chinese DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence reasoning model to come close to developing ransomware variants and keyloggers with evasion capabilities. The model needs prompt engineering and its output requires code editing.

Investment to Scale Engineering, Expansion from Data Deletion to Threat Reduction
Executive digital protection firm 360 Privacy raised $36 million to expand its engineering team and boost its ability to remove sensitive data from brokers. The company is shifting from a data deletion focus to broader threat mitigation, tackling risks from digital tracking and location data leaks.

Texas Incident is Largest Breach Reported by a Health Plan So Far in 2025
A Texas-based insurance firm is notifying more than 335,500 people of a December hack involving their sensitive personal and health information. The breach affects many - but not all - of the company's policyholders, agents and insurance carrier partners in multiple states.

Restraining Order Allows Dismissed Cyber Defense Agency Employees to Return to Work
A temporary restraining order against the Trump administration's efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce will allow thousands of probationary employees to return to work as experts warn the purge threatens national cybersecurity.

Threat Groups Are Mapping OT Networks for Future Targeting, Warns Dragos
A China-linked threat group called Voltzite is targeting operational technology systems at critical infrastructure organizations worldwide to steal network diagrams, OT operating instructions and information about geographic information systems, said cybersecurity firm Dragos.

IT Outages Are Affecting Patient Services, NC Practice Is 'Temporarily Closed'
A small North Carolina radiology practice and a 25-bed Pennsylvania hospital and are among the latest rural healthcare providers struggling to recover from recent cyberattacks that are disrupting their technology operations and affecting patient care services. How will this end up?

Funds Will Support Next-Gen Security Orchestration and Response, Eliminate Complexity
With $30 million in funding, Sola Security is launching an AI-driven, self-service SOAR platform designed for easy adoption across security, IT, and DevOps teams. The Israeli startup aims to disrupt traditional security automation by lowering technical barriers.

Worries Grow Over Data Privacy Framework Stability
A European official said he received assurances the U.S. is committed to preserving the legal framework underpinning commercial data flows across the Atlantic. The Data Privacy Framework already faces legal challenges in Europe, but fears of its durability compounded with the Trump administration.

Bipartisan 'Match IT Act' Aims to Reduce Risk of Medical Mistakes, Privacy Mishaps
Two Congressmen are taking another bipartisan stab at passing legislation aimed at improving patient identity matching to help reduce mistakes that put patient privacy and safety at risk. The lawmakers have introduced similar provisions in the past. Will the proposals gain traction this time?

The Edge Device Hacking Wave Hasn't Spared French Companies
France playing host to the Olympics resulted in a surge of cyberattacks requiring intervention of the state cybersecurity agency, it said in an annual report also flagging an uptick in attacks levied against network edge devices. The games went smoothly.

Series D Funding to Drive U.S. Growth and AI Advancements in Cybersecurity
Pentera has raised $60 million in Series D funding to expand its presence in the U.S. and accelerate AI-driven innovations in security validation. CEO Amitai Ratzon says the company is focused on advancing automated testing and strengthening its leadership in exposure validation.

Cyber Defense Agency Axes Funding for Key ISACs as Trump Shifts Federal Priorities
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is eliminating $10 million in annual funding for two key cybersecurity hubs supporting states and local elections as agency officials tell Information Security Media Group the move is aimed at eliminating waste and realigning priorities.

Plankey Led Efforts to Engage Energy Sector in Cyber Prep During Trump's First Term
President Donald Trump has nominated a former Energy Department and National Security Council cybersecurity official to lead the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. National Guard and Coast Guard veteran Sean Plankey has been tapped to replace Jen Easterly as the director of CISA.

Stretched Agency Must Balance HIPAA Enforcement With Policing DEI in Healthcare
HHS investigators charged with protecting the civil rights and privacy of patients are now assigned to finding and stamping out diversity, equity and inclusion programs at universities and hospitals, with DEI deemed discriminatory under the Trump administration.

Getvisibility's AI Mesh Integration to Bolster Data Classification, Risk Management
Forcepoint is buying Getvisibility to integrate its AI Mesh technology, boosting data classification and risk assessment capabilities. The purchase fortifies Forcepoint's cybersecurity solutions for highly regulated industries, with full integration expected by year-end pending regulatory approval.

Risk of Espionage and Disruption Key Risks, Lawmakers Warned
The British government is "extremely worried" about the Chinese and Russian cyberespionage and disruptive hacks, government officials told the U.K. Public Accounts Committee on Monday. The United Kingdom has faced a "substantial escalation in cyberthreats" in the last three years, lawmakers heard.

Experts Express Surprise Over Major Social Platform Falling Victim to DDoS Attacks
One of the world's biggest social networks continued to face intermittent outages Tuesday, apparently due to unsophisticated, distributed denial-of-service attacks. Experts said the attacks were traced to malware-infected devices - many based in the U.S. - and pro-Palestinian hacktivists.

'Dark Storm Team" Takes Responsibility for 4 Major Outages on Monday
Repeated outages Monday on social media platform X - formerly Twitter - are the result of a distributed denial of service attack, asserted platform owner Elon Musk in a sporadically available tweet. The social media platform experienced four significant outages.