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By Byron V. Acohido

Just hours before it was set to expire on April 16, the federal contract funding MITRE’s stewardship of the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) program was given a temporary extension by CISA. Related: Brian Krebs’ take on

The company doesn’t keep logs, so couldn’t turn over data:

Windscribe, a globally used privacy-first VPN service, announced today that its founder, Yegor Sak, has been fully acquitted by a court in Athens, Greece, following a two-year legal battle i

A coalition of banking industry associations, including SIFA, the American Bankers Association (ABA), Bank Policy Institute (BPI), and several other lobbying groups have made a disgraceful appeal to the SEC to eliminate the rule requiring public disc

Our editorial team has handpicked the best of the best talks on AI/ML from RSA Conference USA – one of the most influential cybersecurity events globally. Held annually, this event brings together the sharpest minds in security to discuss the future

I was recently asked what my favorite cybersecurity speaking venue has been. Although not the largest keynote audience by sheer numbers, speaking at the Sphere 2022 conference sticks out as a unique experience with its 360° stage! 

I had such a great

A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited last week from Spain to the United States, where he is facing charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft. U.S. prosecutors al

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN). It delivers your data through edge locations worldwide. Businesses use CloudFront to reduce latency and improve user experience. However, it’s important to understand how much CloudFront wil

During exercises at CognectCon2025 a number of cyberattack scenarios were discussed that highlighted the risks of cyber attackers leveraging cognitive vulnerabilities to cause major impacts to nation critical infrastructures.

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Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. AI systems will start acting as agents, doing things on our behalf with some degree of autonomy. I think it’s worth thinking about the security of that now, while its still a nascent idea.

In 2019, I joined Inru

An employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working w

Congrats to INTERPOL for taking down a major cyber information-theft infrastructure! Over 20 thousand Ips/domains were shuttered and 41 servers that contained more than 100GB of sensitive data was seized. It is estimated this group, 32 of which were

A DoorDash driver stole over $2.5 million over several months:

The driver, Sayee Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, placed expensive orders from a fraudulent customer account in the DoorDash app. Then, using DoorDash employee credentials, he manually assign

The cybersecurity industry moves fast! The attackers are constantly adapting and relentless in their pursuits that victimize others. New users are being added to the global online ecosystem. Services are hungry for data, which is rising in total valu

One one my biggest worries about VPNs is the amount of trust users need to place in them, and how opaque most of them are about who owns them and what sorts of data they retain.

A new study found that many commercials VPNS are (often surreptitiously)

By Byron V. Acohido

SAN FRANCISCO — The first rule of reporting is to follow the tension lines—the places where old assumptions no longer quite hold. Related: GenAI disrupting tech jobs

I’ve been feeling that tension lately. Just arrived in the City

Russia is proposing a rule that all foreigners in Moscow install a tracking app on their phones.

Using a mobile application that all foreigners will have to install on their smartphones, the Russian state will receive the following information:

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