OpenAI’s proposal invokes China as the central motivation for its requests for lighter AI regulations, but the company is under a variety of legal pressures that could be eased by federal relief: hundreds of emerging US state laws and lawsuits from copyright holders among them.
When Dragos was contracted to implement operational technology security measures for a Massachusetts electric grid company in late 2023, it found that Volt Typhoon had been lurking in their systems since February of that year.
Some independent monitoring services report that X was under fire from around 5 AM to noon on Monday and that users were experiencing login and loading issues throughout that time, making it one of the biggest DDoS attacks on the platform in history.
Adoption of the vulnerability disclosure program is still not quite guaranteed, but is poised to create a ripple effect across the broader cybersecurity market if it is. It is highly likely to push broad adoption of vulnerability disclosure programs (VDPs).
Three days after the seemingly disastrous Oval Office meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, inside sources speaking to The Record reported that the US cyber command had been ordered to stand down from cyber operations targeting Russia.
The Belgian government is investigating what looks to be a 2023 attack by Chinese hackers, who breached an external email server used regularly by its federal intelligence service.
A group that security researchers believe to be affiliated with China is targeting Microsoft 365 accounts with password-spraying attacks, taking advantage of a common oversight in automated security logging to fly below the radar despite the massive scale of the operation.
North Korea’s Lazarus hackers appear to have pulled off another record-setting crypto theft as security researchers are attributing the $1.5 billion Bybit hack to them.
Despite reports of exploitation of Cisco bugs, researchers found that only one known published vulnerability was used in a compromise. For the most part, the Salt Typhoon hackers were able to obtain valid login credentials from somewhere.
With the UK Home Office invoking the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 to issue a secret order to Apple demanding a backdoor into iCloud. Apple has now taken the step of disabling its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature, presumably in response.