Court rebuffs request by telecoms to review $92 million privacy fine
A federal district court declined to step in and review a combined $92 million fine imposed by the Federal Communications Commission on T-Mobile and Sprint…
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Cisco discloses maximum-severity defect in firewall software
Cisco disclosed a maximum-severity vulnerability affecting its Secure Firewall Management Center Software that could allow unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary shell commands and execute high-privilege…
Court upholds FCC data breach reporting rules on telecom sector
A federal court has upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to impose stricter data breach notification regulations on the telecom sector, including requirements that the…
US widens sanctions on Russian crypto exchange Garantex, its successor and affiliate firms
U.S. officials imposed sanctions Thursday on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, its successor Grinex, and related affiliates, while also targeting its leaders for arrest with financial…
Russia restricts WhatsApp, Telegram calls, alleging criminal, terrorist activity
Russia is restricting calls on the WhatsApp and Telegram messaging apps in what it says is a bid to counter criminal activity, but that WhatsApp…
Fortinet SIEM issue coincides with spike in brute-force traffic against company’s SSL VPNs
Fortinet warned customers in an advisory Tuesday of a critical vulnerability in FortiSIEM, its security information and event management software, adding that “practical exploit code”…
The overlooked changes that two Trump executive orders could bring to cybersecurity
Two executive orders President Donald Trump has signed in recent months could prove to have a more dramatic impact on cybersecurity than first thought, for…
Patch the vulnerability: Confirm Sean Plankey as CISA director
Every chief information security officer understands that unresolved vulnerabilities can eventually become entry points for threats. In the private sector, we don’t ignore gaps in…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday follows SharePoint attacks, Exchange server warnings
Microsoft’s monthly batch of patches includes a vulnerability affecting on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers that the company and federal authorities warned about in a series of…
Guess what else GPT-5 is bad at? Security
On Aug. 7, OpenAI released GPT-5, its newest frontier large language model, to the public. Shortly after, all hell broke loose. Billed as faster, smarter…
Researchers determine old vulnerabilities pose real-world threat to sensitive data in public clouds
Using a seven-year-old vulnerability, researchers said they were able to realistically leak private data from public clouds, suggesting that a “lack of concern” about such…
SonicWall pins firewall attack spree on year-old vulnerability
SonicWall insists a spree of ransomware attacks hitting its Gen 7 firewalls is not linked to a zero-day vulnerability, but rather a critical defect the…