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The US government will remove “unnecessary degree requirements” in favor of skills-based hiring to help fill 500,000 open cybersecurity jobs.

SonicWall is warning customers that the recently patched critical vulnerability CVE-2024-40766 may be exploited in the wild.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: US Special Forces can hack buildings, X is hiring cybersecurity staff, and FTC warns of Bitcoin ATM scams. 

The latest Apache OFBiz update patches CVE-2024-45195, a bypass of a recently disclosed remote code execution bug exploited in attacks.

Roundup of the three dozen cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals announced in August 2024.

Veeam has released patches for critical-severity vulnerabilities in Backup & Replication, ONE, and Service Provider Console.

A vulnerability in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin leads to the exposure of sensitive information, including user cookies.

Researchers and the TSA have different views on the impact of vulnerabilities in an airport security application that could allegedly allow the bypass of certain airport security systems.

A secretive Russian military unit, previously linked to assassinations and destabilization in Europe, is blamed for destructive wiper malware attacks in Ukraine.

Planned Parenthood confirms “cybersecurity incident” as RansomHub ransomware gang threatens to leak 93 Gb of data stolen from the nonprofit last week.

GenAI users are uploading data to over eight apps every month – what are the security and privacy concerns?

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Jill Popelka has been appointed CEO at Darktrace, after serving as COO for three months.

GitHub has appointed Alexis Wales as its new Chief Information Security Officer.

Cybersecurity and intelligence solutions provider Nightwing has appointed Christopher Jones as CTO and CDO.

AI-automated software testing firm Code Intelligence has appointed Eric Bruggemann as CEO.

High Wire Networks has named Edward Vasko as CEO and Mark Dallmeier as CRO of its Overwatch division.

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A secretive Russian military unit, previously linked to assassinations and destabilization in Europe, is blamed for destructive wiper malware attacks in Ukraine.

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The US has cracked down on an influence operation sponsored by the Russian government, announcing charges, sanctions and domain seizures.

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Microsoft is experimenting with a major new security mitigation to block attacks targeting flaws in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS).

Google has released Android security updates to patch an exploited local privilege escalation vulnerability.

Intel has shared some clarifications on claims made by a researcher regarding the hacking of its SGX security technology.

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