AT&T confirms legitimacy of leak involving information of 73 million people
AT&T confirmed that a data set with the information of 73 million current and former customers is legitimate nearly two weeks after a hacker offered it on a...
Ross Anderson, professor and famed author of ‘Security Engineering,’ passes away
Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge who is widely recognized for his contributions to computing, passed away at home on Thursday according...
Prisma Finance crypto theft caps strange week of platform breaches
Two prominent crypto platforms were compromised this week, with millions worth of cryptocurrency stolen by hackers with confusing motives. On Tuesday evening, the Munchables blockchain-based game said...
Malicious backdoor code embedded in popular Linux tool, CISA and Red Hat warn
The software company Red Hat and the nation’s top cybersecurity agency released a Good Friday warning about malicious code being embedded in a popular Linux tool. The...
Hillary Clinton: AI and deepfakes pose a ‘totally different type of threat’
Calling artificial intelligence and deepfakes “a leap in technology,” former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that people using AI for undemocratic purposes are honing their...
Popular PyPI site for developers temporarily blocks functions due to malware campaign
Administrators for a widely used repository for the Python coding language suspended some functions temporarily overnight because of a “malware upload campaign.” The Python Package Index (PyPI)...
Pentagon lays out strategy to improve defense industrial base cybersecurity
The Pentagon on Thursday released its first ever cybersecurity strategy to better protect its massive industrial base from hackers. "As our adversaries continuously seek information about U.S....
Zero-days exploited in the wild jumped 50% in 2023, fueled by spyware vendors
Cybersecurity experts are warning that zero-day exploits, which can be used to compromise devices before anyone is aware they’re vulnerable, have become more common as nation-state hackers and...
Lawmakers set sights on data minimization as states seek to limit companies from capturing...
A comprehensive data privacy bill that includes the country’s toughest data minimization standards is on the cusp of passing the Maryland state legislature, giving advocates hope that similar...
Exclusive: A high-level election security group is back. NSA and Cyber Command want to...
U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency will not identify the latest leaders of their joint election security task force, in part to shield them from the...
