Ex-L3Harris executive accused of selling trade secrets to Russia
Federal prosecutors have accused a former executive at L3Harris Technologies’ cyber division of stealing trade secrets and selling them to an undisclosed buyer in Russia,…
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New York updates third-party risk guidance, adds AI provisions
The New York Department of Financial Services published updates this week to longstanding industry guidance that urges financial services companies to closely watch their third-party…
F5 vulnerability highlights weak points in DHS’s CDM program
Last week, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials spoke candidly about the challenges they faced tracking the use of F5 products across the civilian federal…
Researchers track surge in high-level Smishing Triad activity
Researchers have uncovered a long-running phishing campaign that uses text messages to trick victims, and it’s both bigger and more complex than previously thought. The…
Researchers track surge in high-level Smishing Triad activity
Researchers have uncovered a long-running phishing campaign that uses text messages to trick victims, and it’s both bigger and more complex than previously thought. The…
Open letter calls for prohibition on superintelligent AI, highlighting growing mainstream concern
An open letter released Wednesday has called for a ban on the development of artificial intelligence systems considered to be “superintelligent” until there is broad…
US ‘slipping’ on cybersecurity, annual Cyberspace Solarium Commission report concludes
The Trump administration should reverse cyber personnel and budget cuts, strengthen the Office of the National Cyber Director and expand federal workforce initiatives, the successor…
Researchers uncover remote code execution flaw in abandoned Rust code library
Security specialists at Edera discovered and disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in an early and since-abandoned code for an open-source async tar archive library for the…
Robocalling task force bill advances in Senate
The federal government is shut down and the House remains out of session, but work in the Senate continues, as a bipartisan bill designed to…
Veeam acquires Securiti AI for $1.7 billion
Veeam announced Tuesday it agreed to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion, marking the data protection company’s largest acquisition and its entry into the artificial…
Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million
Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday to acquire ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity threat intelligence provider, for $290 million. The…
Apple and Google challenged by parents’ rights coalition on youth privacy protections
A nonprofit organization has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, claiming Google’s business practices around children and teenagers violates U.S. privacy laws…