Category: cyberscoop

Cloudflare IPO
17
Mar
2025

Cloudflare rolls out post-quantum encryption for enterprise users

Internet security company Cloudflare, the world’s largest DDoS-mitigation service, plans to shift a sizable chunk of its traffic through post-quantum…

mobile device management
14
Mar
2025

California’s legal push on geolocation data collection must take aim at the right targets, privacy experts say

The attorney general for California announced this week a wide-ranging investigation into the way companies collect, process and use consumer…

Water utilities would get cybersecurity boost under bipartisan Senate bill
14
Mar
2025

Water utilities would get cybersecurity boost under bipartisan Senate bill

Small water and wastewater utilities would get a boost to their cybersecurity defenses under a bipartisan Senate bill that a…

US must prioritize cybersecurity training for the military’s engineers
13
Mar
2025

US must prioritize cybersecurity training for the military’s engineers

The Trump administration begins under the shadow of a series of consequential Chinese cyber hacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. While…

Lazarus Group deceives developers with 6 new malicious npm packages
13
Mar
2025

Lazarus Group deceives developers with 6 new malicious npm packages

Lazarus Group has burrowed deeper into the npm registry and planted six new malicious packages designed to deceive software developers…

Legislative push for child online safety runs afoul of encryption advocates (again)
13
Mar
2025

Legislative push for child online safety runs afoul of encryption advocates (again)

Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are preparing to introduce  a bipartisan bill that would mandate tech companies to…

Microsoft patches 57 vulnerabilities, including 6 zero-days
12
Mar
2025

Microsoft patches 57 vulnerabilities, including 6 zero-days

Microsoft patched 57 vulnerabilities affecting its foundational systems and core products, including six actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, the company said…

Apple discloses zero-day vulnerability, releases emergency patches
12
Mar
2025

Apple discloses zero-day vulnerability, releases emergency patches

Apple released emergency software patches Tuesday that address a newly identified zero-day vulnerability in the company’s WebKit web browser engine. …

Matt Kapko
11
Mar
2025

X suffered a DDoS attack. Its CEO and security researchers can’t agree on who did it.

Social media service X was hit by a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks Monday, which rendered the platform formerly known…

Trade groups worry information sharing will worsen without critical infrastructure panel, CISA law renewal
11
Mar
2025

Trade groups worry information sharing will worsen without critical infrastructure panel, CISA law renewal

Business groups told lawmakers Tuesday that they fear cyber threat information sharing could drop off in light of the Trump…

Amid personnel turmoil at cyber agencies, a government shutdown could increase potential harm
11
Mar
2025

Amid personnel turmoil at cyber agencies, a government shutdown could increase potential harm

A potential government shutdown looms by the end of this week if Congress doesn’t pass legislation to keep funding the…

Sean Plankey
11
Mar
2025

Sean Plankey picked by Trump to be CISA director 

President Donald Trump nominated Sean Plankey to head the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday, the last major piece…