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No Vote, No Leader: CISA Faces 2026 Without a Director

DataBreachToday.com
1 month 1 week ago
US Cyber Defense Agency Faces Procedural Delays Blocking Director Confirmation
Sean Plankey's stalled nomination leaves the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency without a Senate-confirmed director amid rising state-linked threats, as unrelated congressional holds tied to telecom and contracting fights freeze the process with no resolution in sight.

23andMe to Get $16.5M in Unused Cyber Insurance

DataBreachToday.com
1 month 1 week ago
Bankrupt Firm Plans to Use the Settlement Money to Pay Off Cyber Claims
As part of its ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, 23andMe Holding Co. - now named Chrome Holding - has reached a settlement with its cyber insurers for the carriers to buy back $16.5 million of the consumer genetics testing firm's unused cyber policy. What will the company do with the funds?

Rethinking the CIO-CISO Dynamic in the Age of AI

DataBreachToday.com
1 month 1 week ago
Enterprises Are Reimagining Org Roles, Risk Management and Skillsets in the AI Race
Organizations are beginning to reimagine how leadership roles should be structured, aligned and empowered as they grapple with regulatory pressures, the unpredictable nature of AI systems, and the need for operational resilience in an increasingly uncertain business climate.

China Hackers Using Brickstorm Backdoor to Target Government, IT Entities

Security Boulevard
1 month 1 week ago

Chinese-sponsored groups are using the popular Brickstorm backdoor to access and gain persistence in government and tech firm networks, part of the ongoing effort by the PRC to establish long-term footholds in agency and critical infrastructure IT environments, according to a report by U.S. and Canadian security offices.

The post China Hackers Using Brickstorm Backdoor to Target Government, IT Entities appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Jeffrey Burt

React Flaw Mitigation Leads to Cloudflare Outage

Ransomware DataBreachToday.com
1 month 1 week ago
Outage Briefly Took Down Zoom, LinkedIn and Other Websites
Content delivery network giant Cloudflare is investigating a brief outage early Friday that took down multiple websites. The incident marks the second outage in the span of a month, although the causes are unrelated. It stemmed from how Cloudflare's web application firewall parses requests.

No Vote, No Leader: CISA Faces 2026 Without a Director

Ransomware DataBreachToday.com
1 month 1 week ago
US Cyber Defense Agency Faces Procedural Delays Blocking Director Confirmation
Sean Plankey's stalled nomination leaves the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency without a Senate-confirmed director amid rising state-linked threats, as unrelated congressional holds tied to telecom and contracting fights freeze the process with no resolution in sight.

23andMe to Get $16.5M in Unused Cyber Insurance

Ransomware DataBreachToday.com
1 month 1 week ago
Bankrupt Firm Plans to Use the Settlement Money to Pay Off Cyber Claims
As part of its ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, 23andMe Holding Co. - now named Chrome Holding - has reached a settlement with its cyber insurers for the carriers to buy back $16.5 million of the consumer genetics testing firm's unused cyber policy. What will the company do with the funds?

Rethinking the CIO-CISO Dynamic in the Age of AI

Ransomware DataBreachToday.com
1 month 1 week ago
Enterprises Are Reimagining Org Roles, Risk Management and Skillsets in the AI Race
Organizations are beginning to reimagine how leadership roles should be structured, aligned and empowered as they grapple with regulatory pressures, the unpredictable nature of AI systems, and the need for operational resilience in an increasingly uncertain business climate.

CVE-2025-13486

CVE Trends
1 month 1 week ago
Currently trending CVE - Hype Score: 16 - The Advanced Custom Fields: Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in versions 0.9.0.5 through 0.9.1.1 via the prepare_form() function. This is due to the function accepting user input and then passing that through call_user_func_array(). This makes ...

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