Biden’s fiscal failures loom over treasury nominee’s path
Thursday’s confirmation hearing for treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent carries immense importance, given the fragile state of America’s fiscal foundation.…
US sanctions Chinese firm, hacker behind telecom and Treasury hacks
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Yin Kecheng, a Shanghai-based hacker for…
Exploring CVSS 4.0’s Impact on Vulnerability and Threat Management
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) offers a standardized framework for characterizing and scoring vulnerabilities, helping the effort for vulnerability…
Bad Tenable plugin updates take down Nessus agents worldwide
Tenable says customers must manually upgrade their software to revive Nessus vulnerability scanner agents taken offline on December 31st due…
European officials pitch new idea to shore up defenses with Trump’s return
European officials are struggling to agree on a plan to shore up hundreds of billions of dollars to bolster defenses.…
Hackers steal ZAGG customers’ credit cards in third-party breach
ZAGG Inc. is informing customers that their credit card data has been exposed to unauthorized individuals after hackers compromised a…
Obama’s Global Engagement Center — the ‘worst offender in US government censorship’ — is officially dead
The Global Engagement Center, a multi-agency entity housed within the U.S. State Department that has been credibly and repeatedly accused…
DDoS Attacks Surge as Africa Expands Its Digital Footprint
As organizations on the continent expand their use of digital technologies, they increasingly face many of the same threats that…
India Sees Surge in API Attacks, Especially in Banking, Utilities
The number of DDoS-related incidents targeting APIs have jumped by 30x compared with traditional Web assets, suggesting that attackers see…
Ongoing phishing attack abuses Google Calendar to bypass spam filters
An ongoing phishing scam is abusing Google Calendar invites and Google Drawings pages to steal credentials while bypassing spam filters.…