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Enterprise tech dominates zero-day exploits with no signs of slowdown
China now America's number one cyber threat – US must get up to speed
RSAC Russia used to be considered America's biggest adversary online, but over the past couple of years China has taken the role, and is proving highly effective at it.…
Infosec pros tell Trump to quit bullying Chris Krebs – it's undermining security
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and numerous infosec leaders are lobbying US President Donald Trump to drop his enduring investigation into Chris Krebs, claiming that targeting the former CISA boss amounts to bullying.…
China is using AI to sharpen every link in its attack chain, FBI warns
RSAC The biggest threat to US critical infrastructure, according to FBI Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser, can be summed up in one word: "China."…
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
RSAC Concerned a new recruit might be a North Korean stooge out to steal intellectual property and then hit an org with malware? There is an answer, for the moment at least.…
Swiss boffins admit to secretly posting AI-penned posts to Reddit in the name of science
Researchers from the University of Zurich have admitted to secretly posting AI-generated material to popular Subreddit r/changemyview in the name of science.…
Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users
Researchers at Canada’s Citizen Lab have spotted a phishing campaign and supply chain attack directed at Uyghur people living outside China, and suggest it’s an example of Beijing’s attempts to target the ethnic minority group.…
Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus
Former Disney employee Michael Scheuer was sentenced to 36 months in prison and fined almost $688,000 for screwing up a software application the entertainment giant used to cook up its restaurant menus.…
Cybersecurity CEO accused of running malware on hospital PC blabs about it on LinkedIn
An Oklahoma City cybersecurity professional accused of installing spyware on a hospital PC confirmed on LinkedIn key details of the drama.…
How to survive as a CISO aka 'chief scapegoat officer'
RSAC Chief security officers should negotiate personal liability insurance and a golden parachute when they start a new job – in case things go sideways and management tries to scapegoat them for a network breach.…
Admission impossible: NSA, CISA brass absent from RSA Conf
RSAC There's a notable absence from this year's RSA Conference that kicked off today in San Francisco: The NSA's State of the Hack panel.…
The future of AI in cybersecurity in a word: Optimistic
Sponsored post AI is reshaping cybersecurity in real time, raising the stakes on both sides of the battlefield. For defenders, it brings speed, precision, and automation at scale, helping security teams detect threats earlier and respond faster than ever. But adversaries aren’t standing still. They’re using AI to sharpen their own tactics, accelerating attacks and probing defenses with unprecedented sophistication.…
From 112k to 4 million folks' data – HR biz attack goes from bad to mega bad
Houston-based VeriSource Services' long-running probe into a February 2024 digital break-in shows the data of 4 million people – not just a few hundred thousand as it first claimed - was accessed by an "unknown actor".…
Back online after 'catastrophic' attack, 4chan says it's too broke for good IT
Clearweb cesspit 4chan is back up and running, but says the damage caused by a cyberattack earlier this month was "catastrophic."…
Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025
Microsoft has announced that its preview of hotpatching for on-prem Windows Server 2025 will become a paid subscription service in July.…
Samsung admits Galaxy devices can leak passwords through clipboard wormhole
Infosec in brief Samsung has warned that some of its Galaxy devices store passwords in plaintext.…
Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed
Opinion Just when it seems they couldn't be that careless, US officials tasked with defending the nation go and do something else that puts American critical infrastructure, national security, and troops' lives in danger.…
Amid CVE funding fumble, 'we were mushrooms, kept in the dark,' says board member
Kent Landfield, a founding member of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and member of the board, learned through social media that the system he helped create was just hours away from losing funding.…
More Ivanti attacks may be on horizon, say experts who are seeing 9x surge in endpoint scans
Ivanti VPN users should stay alert as IP scanning for the vendor's Connect Secure and Pulse Secure systems surged by 800 percent last week, according to threat intel biz GreyNoise.…
Oh, cool. Microsoft melts bug that froze Server 2025 Remote Desktop sessions
More than one month after complaints starting flying, Microsoft has fixed a Windows bug that caused some Remote Desktop sessions to freeze.…
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