The bill mandates a national strategy and establishes pilot programs in the federal government on quantum-safe encryption.
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Google wants to shorten delays in the vulnerability lifecycle by sharing limited details about newly discovered defects within a week of reporting to the affected vendor.
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Sen. Alex Padilla and other Democrats say the GOP is pressing inflated concerns about noncitizen voting to justify legal and legislative challenges to eligible voters.
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The U.S. Military Academy announced Tuesday that the former CISA head would join the Department of Social Sciences. Secretary Dan Driscoll pulled the offer Wednesday.
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The deal is a further example of tech market consolidation and positioning to guard against threats to enterprise AI systems.
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The agency has two months to publish its final rule. It will not meet that mark, but a new CISA director has the tools to move the program forward.
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IBM’s yearly report finds that a data breach now costs U.S. organizations more than $10 million for recovery.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz activated the state national guard to help respond to an ongoing cyberattack on the state's capital city.
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The Oregon Democrat has vowed to place a hold on the nomination to lead the agency until CISA releases the report.
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The findings are part of a growing list of instances where “agentic” AI software has taken actions that are more akin to a malicious hacker than a helpful AI assistant.
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It’s time for SpaceX to take strong action against scammers abusing the company’s Starlink internet service, Sen. Maggie Hassan said in a letter to CEO Elon Musk on Monday. The New Hampshire Democrat cited evidence accumulating over the past two years that some Southeast Asian fraudsters scamming billions of dollars from U.S. citizens have leaned […]
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Officials said thousands of people, typically between 11 and 25 years old, are engaged in a growing and evolving online threat to commit crime for money, retaliation, ideology, sexual gratification and notoriety.
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Researchers in California contacted data brokers in their state to exercise their rights under the California Privacy Protection Act. Many didn’t reply, while others threw up barriers.
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The tech giant’s model is built around anticompetitive practices, the head of the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing argues.
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The announcement comes as an Arizona woman was sentenced to more than eight years in jail for her role in running a laptop farm.
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The Departments of Energy, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services have been impacted.
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But Trump’s pick to lead CISA sidestepped questions about alleged past or future election manipulation claims.
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It also builds on previous efforts to promote “secure by design” principles in AI systems and tools.
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Officials accuse the unnamed suspect of running XSS.is, a key and long-running marketplace with more than 50,000 registered users. The suspect allegedly made more than $8.2 million.
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The software defects, which have a maximum-severity rating, do not require authentication and allow remote attackers to execute code arbitrarily on the underlying system.
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