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It is the first lapse of the spy program, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), since it was passed into law in 2008.

The penalty is the largest ever issued by the commission for a personal data breach, surpassing the record 134.8 billion won ($88.8 million) fine levied against SK Telecom earlier this year.

An amendment by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) to the chamber’s fiscal 2027 national defense authorization bill that would have created the digital-focused service was defeated 14-13 when the Senate Armed Services Committee took up the nearly $1.2 trillion legislation behind closed doors this week.

Great Marlow School, which has 1,428 pupils according to the Department for Education (DfE), said it was set to remain closed while it works with specialist IT and cybersecurity professionals to resolve the issue.

Denis Obrezko, 36, made his initial appearance in federal court in Boston on Tuesday after being transferred to U.S. custody from Thailand, where he was arrested last November.

According to the university’s statement, it is still working to understand what data has been accessed and said it had already directly contacted affected students and alumni, potentially including those in its foreign campuses in Malaysia and China as well as in Nottingham.

CISA is giving agencies 180 days to adopt the new patching time frame, according to a directive released Wednesday.

Australia's second-largest sugar producer said on Wednesday that it was responding to a cybersecurity incident affecting parts of its operations and had engaged cybersecurity experts and local authorities to investigate the attack and restore its systems safely.

The release comes after Microsoft’s security leadership acknowledged last month that AI tools are driving a surge in vulnerability discovery across the industry.

Britain has weakened proposed cybersecurity protections for its telecoms networks that were developed in response to the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, after the companies responsible for implementing the measures lobbied against them.

A binding operational directive being released Wednesday will direct federal agencies to change the way they address vulnerabilities by elevating some while putting others to the side.

The group, dubbed SiribClone by Russian cybersecurity firm F6, has been active since at least the summer of 2025 and has primarily targeted members of the Russian armed forces stationed in border regions and combat zones.

The companies “must activate built-in features or implement technical solutions on smartphones and tablets to detect and block nude images for children,” according to a press release from the Home Office. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the measure in a speech at London Tech Week Monday.

Pashinyan's Civil Contract party won nearly 50% of Sunday's vote, defeating the pro-Russian Strong Armenia party led by Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan, which received around 23% of the vote.

WhatsApp said it is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO for violating a permanent injunction that bars it from mounting attacks against its users.

New regulations published by Russia's Ministry of Digital Development at the end of May updated the technical standards governing SORM, formally known as the System for Operative Investigative Activities.

The package bundles two draft laws — a Chips Act 2.0 and a Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) — alongside an Open Source Strategy and a roadmap for digitalizing the energy system.

Russian authorities have promoted Max as a domestic alternative to foreign messaging platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp.

Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, has emerged as a lead contender for the long vacant Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director role, according to the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss the administration’s search.

Twitter, renamed X in 2023, filed a petition saying that the settlement terms are unfair because the order was issued against a company that “no longer exists,” the workers responsible for the scheme no longer work for X and the firm has since established a “world class” privacy and data protection program.