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Court rebuffs request by telecoms to review $92 million privacy fine

9h ago 3m read

Cisco discloses maximum-severity defect in firewall software

11h ago 4m read

Court upholds FCC data breach reporting rules on telecom sector

12h ago 7m read

US widens sanctions on Russian crypto exchange Garantex, its successor and affiliate firms

Thu 3m read

Russia restricts WhatsApp, Telegram calls, alleging criminal, terrorist activity

Wed 3m read

Fortinet SIEM issue coincides with spike in brute-force traffic against company’s SSL VPNs

Wed 4m read

The overlooked changes that two Trump executive orders could bring to cybersecurity

Wed 10m read

Patch the vulnerability: Confirm Sean Plankey as CISA director

Wed 4m read

Microsoft Patch Tuesday follows SharePoint attacks, Exchange server warnings

Tue 4m read

Guess what else GPT-5 is bad at? Security

Tue 6m read

SonicWall pins firewall attack spree on year-old vulnerability

Mon 4m read

Why cyber modernization requires partners with technical plus acquisition expertise

Mon 6m read

Researchers determine old vulnerabilities pose real-world threat to sensitive data in public clouds

Mon 3m read

FCC tightens rules on foreign firms building undersea cables, citing security

Mon 3m read

House lawmakers seek better tech for Commerce in fight against foreign powers

Mon 3m read

Announcing the winners of the 2025 CyberScoop 50 awards

Mon 4m read

CyberScoop 50 reveals 2025 winners; honors Amit Yoran with lifetime award

Mon 5m read

DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge reveals winning models for automated vulnerability discovery and patching

Fri 5m read

Microsoft: An organization without a response plan will be hit harder by a security incident

Fri 4m read

Research reveals possible privacy gaps in Apple Intelligence’s data handling

Fri 5m read

Federal courts to ramp up filing system security after ‘recent escalated cyberattacks’

Aug 8 3m read

BlackSuit, Royal ransomware group hit over 450 US victims before last month’s takedown

Aug 7 3m read

CISA, Microsoft warn organizations of high-severity Microsoft Exchange vulnerability

Aug 7 3m read

Nigerian accused of hacking tax preparation businesses extradited to US

Aug 7 2m read

New National Cyber Director Cairncross faces challenges on policy, bureaucracy, threats

Aug 6 6m read

SonicWall firewalls hit by active mass exploitation of suspected zero-day

Aug 5 4m read

Why identity is the definitive cyber defense for federal agencies

Aug 5 4m read

Iranian hackers were more coordinated, aligned during Israel conflict than it seemed

Aug 5 3m read

Google addresses six vulnerabilities in August’s Android security update

Aug 4 2m read

AI company Perplexity is sneaking to get around blocks on crawlers, Cloudflare alleges

Aug 4 2m read

‘Highly evasive’ Vietnamese-speaking hackers stealing data from thousands of victims in 62+ nations

Aug 4 3m read

Details emerge on BlackSuit ransomware takedown

Aug 4 5m read

CrowdStrike investigated 320 North Korean IT worker cases in the past year

Aug 4 3m read

Senate confirms national cyber director pick Sean Cairncross

Aug 3 2m read

Cursor’s AI coding agent morphed ‘into local shell’ with one-line prompt attack

Aug 1 3m read

Social engineering attacks surged this past year, Palo Alto Networks report finds

Aug 1 3m read

China accuses US of exploiting Microsoft zero-day in cyberattack

Aug 1 3m read