Anonymous officials from the Biden administration have told the New York Times that Chinese malware has been planted in the networks that control the critical infrastructure of military bases. The "ticking time bomb" could potentially cripple military systems in the event of a conflict between the two countries.
The National Guard is serving as something of a stopgap to defend against cyber attacks for state and local governments that are running behind the curve in terms of cyber capabilities.
A U.S. nuclear agency was among the victims of the SharePoint vulnerability chain, which was exploited to compromise over 54 organizations across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns about AI-generated phishing text or deepfake audio messages impersonating senior U.S. officials targeting current and former state and federal officials and their contacts.
The USPTO says that an API vulnerability was present between February 2020 and March 2023, causing a data leak of about 61,000 private residential addresses attached to patent filings.
Recent U.S. protests are exposing the surveillance technology used by government to monitor demonstrations, raising concerns that these tools will be here to stay.
U.S. protests of police brutality have caused Amazon, Microsoft and IBM to temporarily cease selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies.
The Uber data breach resulted in the theft of a variety of internal company information, and stemmed from a third-party vendor. The thieves also got away with source code and employee personal information.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has denied reports that the Aadhaar data breach has made masses of biometric data available to external players for a miniscule sum. Has big government in India simply overreached itself as far as its vision for this database is concerned?
A known state-sponsored hacking group from China has been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for a campaign of cyber attacks over the past decade, and has been named by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as the culprit in a 2021 cyber espionage campaign against parliamentarians.










