Legal News, News
April 13, 2025
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Justice Department Implements Critical National Security Program to Protect Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries

Department Answers Frequently Asked Questions, Provides Guidance, and Issues Limited Enforcement Policy for First 90 Days Today, the Justice Department took significant steps to move forward with implementing a critical program to prevent China, Russia, Iran, and other foreign adversaries from using commercial activities to access and exploit U.S. government-related data and Americans’ sensitive personal […]

Cyberattack, Critical Infrastructure, News
April 11, 2025
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Chinese officials claimed behind closed doors PRC played role in US cyberattacks: Report

Fox8 reports: Chinese officials acknowledged behind closed doors at a December meeting that their government was responsible for a series of cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according to a Wall Street Journal report based on information from people familiar with the matter. The news comes as the two countries continue to spar over tariffs imposed by President Donald […]

Legal News, News
April 10, 2025
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Senator puts hold on Trump’s nominee for CISA director, citing telco security ‘cover up’

TechCrunch reports: Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has put a hold on the Trump administration’s nomination of Sean Plankey to head the federal government’s top cybersecurity agency, citing a “multi-year cover up” of security flaws at U.S. telecommunication companies. Wyden said in remarks, seen by TechCrunch and confirmed by the senator’s spokesperson, that he will block the nomination […]

Cyberattack, News
April 08, 2025
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Hackers Claim They Will Target Elon Musk For a ‘Full Month’

Newsweek reports: A group of hackers that previously targeted President Donald Trump has pledged to take aim at Elon Musk for the next month. DonRoad Team, which previously claimed responsibility for taking down several Trump-associated websites, announced Monday it would begin hitting sites linked to Elon Musk. Newsweek contacted Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twittter) and the Department of Government Efficiency […]

News, Malware Ransomware
April 07, 2025
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The Double Life of a Digital Genius: Saving Windows by Day, Hacking Corporations by Night

The story of EncryptHub, who conquered 600 companies, but failed in conversations with ChatGPT. Swedish computer security experts have uncovered an unusual story of a hacker who balances between a legitimate career and cybercrime. Last month, he received an official commendation from Microsoft for discovering two serious vulnerabilities in Windows, but as experts at Outpost24 KrakenLabs […]

News, Miscellaneous News
April 06, 2025
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CYBER KIDS: How Kim Jong-un is grooming world’s best hackers from age of 5 & handpicking them from primary school to target the West 

The Sun reports: KIM Jong-un is recruiting primary school children and grooming them to become the world’s best hackers, an intelligence analyst has warned. The child prodigies are recruited from the age of five and channelled into specialist schools where they learn how to target the West with devastating hacks. North Korea analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, Michael Barnhart, told the Sun […]

Vulnerabilities, News
April 05, 2025
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CISA warns of latest Ivanti firewall bug being exploited by suspected Chinese hackers

The Record reports: Another vulnerability impacting firewall products from Ivanti is being exploited by alleged China-based hackers. An Ivanti advisory released on Thursday confirmed that a “limited number of customers” have been attacked through a bug impacting its Connect Secure, Policy Secure & ZTA Gateways tools — which are used by large organizations and government clients to […]

News
April 02, 2025
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DOGE official at justice department ‘bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software’

Reuters reports: A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk who is working in the US justice department previously bragged about hacking and distributing pirated software, according to archived copies of his former websites reviewed by Reuters. Christopher Stanley, a 33-year-old engineer who has worked at Musk’s social media company X and space launch company SpaceX, is […]

Data Breach News, News
April 02, 2025
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Gen. Paul Nakasone says China is now our biggest cyber threat

The Record reports: For nearly six years, Gen. Paul Nakasone led two of the most powerful — and secretive — arms of American national security: the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command. One listens. The other talks back. Under the first Trump administration, Cyber Command got something it never had before: the green light not just to defend, […]