Former CISA nominee Sean Plankey named US CEO of defense startup
Sean Plankey, most recently the nominee for director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is joining defense technology company UFORCE as its U.S. chief…
Category: Cyberscoop
Colorado governor commutes prison sentence for election denier Tina Peters
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has commuted the prison sentence of Tina Peters, the former Mesa County election clerk who was sentenced last year to serve…
Here’s how the FTC plans to enforce the Take It Down Act
The Federal Trade Commission is set to begin enforcing a key provision of the Take Down Act on May 19, requiring websites and online services…
Cisco zero-day under ongoing attack by persistent threat group
Attackers returned once again to a common target with a massive user base by exploiting a max-severity zero-day vulnerability affecting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and…
White House cyber official: identity security matters more than ever in the age of AI
As AI becomes more integrated into federal IT (and attacker toolsets) government agencies will need to focus their resources on regulating and monitoring the identities…
Pentagon cyber official calls advanced AI ‘revolutionary warfare’
Advanced artificial intelligence models will “fundamentally change warfare as we know it,” a top cyber official at the Defense Department said Thursday, saying it represents…
Major tech manufacturer Foxconn confirms cyberattack hit North American factories
Foxconn, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronics sold by major tech vendors, is recovering from a cyberattack that disrupted some of the company’s…
Weaponized AI: The new frontier of fraud and identity spoofing
Today’s enterprise executives are navigating a complex landscape of AI-driven challenges, but none is more urgent than the rapid escalation of AI-generated fraud. Fraudsters are…
Closed briefing sets stage for House hearing on Anthropic’s Mythos and cyber risks
The House Homeland Security Committee is digging into Anthropic’s AI model Mythos in a series of briefings and hearings, as questions proliferate on whether and…
Researchers say AI just broke every benchmark for autonomous cyber capability
Two of the most advanced artificial intelligence models — Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 — have significantly surpassed the already-accelerating pace at which…
DOJ releases legal rationale for nationwide voter data collection
The Trump administration released a legal opinion outlining the legal rationale behind its nationwide voter data collection efforts, justifying an aggressive federal role in vetting…
Daybreak is OpenAI’s answer to the AI arms race in cybersecurity
OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative that combines the company’s large language models with its Codex agentic framework to help organizations identify, patch, and…