U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says federal government departments are not sufficiently patching to protect against an active hacking campaign targeting Cisco firewalls. In an updated advisory published Wednesday, CISA said that it was currently “tracking…
A Chinese-backed hacking campaign that previously hacked into nine U.S. telecommunication and internet providers is now confirmed to have hacked at least 200 American companies, according to the FBI’s top cyber chief. FBI Assistant Director…
A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal…
Security researchers say hackers have breached at least 400 organizations by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, signalling a sharp rise in the number of detected compromises since the bug was discovered last week.…
The U.S. federal government and cybersecurity researchers say a newly discovered security bug found in Microsoft’s SharePoint is under attack. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA sounded the alarm this weekend that hackers were actively exploiting the…
The U.S. Justice Department has confirmed the arrest of Chinese national Xu Zewei, an alleged prolific contract hacker who carried out cyberattacks for China. Xu was arrested in Italy at the request of U.S. prosecutors.…
Senior members of the Trump administration’s National Security Council — including its top national security advisor, Michael Waltz — used Gmail to conduct government business, The Washington Post reported, citing documents and three unnamed government…
Senior members of the Trump administration’s National Security Council — including its top national security adviser, Michael Waltz — used Gmail to conduct government business, The Washington Post reported, citing documents and three unnamed government…
The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate workers it “unlawfully” fired. U.S. District Judge James Bredar last…
Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician turned whistleblower who exposed mass surveillance by the U.S. government, has died at age 79. Klein went public in 2006 with documents revealing that the NSA was using a…