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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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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