String of defects in popular Kubernetes component puts 40% of cloud environments at risk
More than 40% of cloud environments are at risk of an account takeover due to a series of five recently...
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Commerce limits 19 Chinese, Taiwanese companies from buying U.S. tech
The Commerce Department plans to finalize economic sanctions this week on nearly 20 Chinese and Taiwanese organizations, citing the need...
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Intelligence chiefs insist Signal chat was a simple mistake
U.S. intelligence leaders found themselves under intensified scrutiny from Congress for a second straight day, following revelations that significant military...
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Despite challenges, the CVE program is a public-private partnership that has shown resilience
In 1999, Dave Mann and Steve Christey, two researchers from the nonprofit R&D corporation MITRE, debuted a concept for security...
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FCC’s Carr alleges Chinese companies are making ‘end run’ around Chinese telecom bans, announces investigation
The first initiative from The Federal Communications Commission’s newly-created Council on National Security will be a “sweeping” investigation of Chinese-made...
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Nation-state groups hit hundreds of organizations with Microsoft Windows zero-day
Cybercriminals working on behalf of at least six nation-states are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows to commit...
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How DHS is working to continually improve the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program
Department of Homeland Security officials in charge of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM)...
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Capital One hacker Paige Thompson got too light a sentence, appeals court rules
A federal appeals court overruled a district court judge’s sentence for Capital One hacker Paige Thompson this week, deciding that...
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Congress should re-up 2015 information-sharing law, top Hill staffer says
Congress needs to reauthorize an expiring law that provides legal protections to companies for sharing cyber threat information with the...
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Six additional countries identified as suspected Paragon spyware customers
Researchers have identified suspected government customers of spyware company Paragon Solutions in six more countries that hadn’t previously been publicly...
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Trump moves to fire Democratic FTC commissioners
Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter of the Federal Trade Commission confirmed reports that President Donald Trump is attempting to...
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Infostealers fueled cyberattacks and snagged 2.1B credentials last year
Cybercriminals used information-stealing malware to a devastating effect last year, capturing sensitive data that fueled ransomware, breaches and attacks targeting...
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