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The effects of the backlog is already being felt in vulnerability management circles where NVD data promises an enriched source of truth.

Oracle has denied that Cloud systems have been breached after a hacker claimed to have stolen millions of records.

A Russian exploit acquisition firm is offering up to $4 million for a full-chain exploit targeting messaging service Telegram.

Understand whether BAS, Automated Penetration Testing, or the combined approach of Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) aligns best with your organization’s unique security needs.

The US Department of the Treasury has removed sanctions against the fully decentralized cryptocurrency mixer service Tornado Cash.

The FCC is investigating whether Chinese firms such as Huawei, ZTE and China Telecom are still operating in the US.

The Medusa ransomware relies on a malicious Windows driver to disable the security tools running on the infected systems.

NetSfere Integrates ML-KEM and AES into its text, voice and video messaging platform to meet 2027 NSA Quantum Security mandates.

New versions of the Albabat ransomware target Windows, Linux, and macOS, and retrieve configuration files from GitHub.

Public officials and private citizens are consistently warned about hacking and data leaks, but technologies designed to increase privacy often decrease government transparency.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Capital One hacker’s sentence reversed, Google patches critical Chrome vulnerability, the story of an Expat flaw. 

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Tabitha Craig has been named the CISO of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Life360 has appointed Vari Bindra, former Amazon cybersecurity lead, as Chief Information Security Officer.

Forcepoint has appointed Guy Shamilov as CISO, Bakshi Kohli as CTO and Naveen Palavalli as CPO and CMO.

Paul Calatayud has been named CISO of developer security posture management firm Archipelo.

Cyber readiness and response firm Sygnia has appointed Avi Golan as its new CEO.

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Attacks involving Paragon’s Graphite spyware involved a WhatsApp zero-day that could be exploited without any user interaction.

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News analysis: Google positions itself to compete with Microsoft for enterprise security dollars. How does this deal affect startup ecosystem?

A long-running campaign phishing for credentials through scareware recently switched to targeting macOS users.

Google has confirmed reports that it’s buying cloud security giant Wiz and says it’s prepared to pay $32 billion in cash.

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