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A former IT employee from the Saydel school district in Des Moines was sentenced to 21 months in prison after admitting to a sustained digital sabotage campaign against his former…
Splunk has published critical patches for a Splunk Enterprise failure that, according to the company and the researchers who analyzed the problem, allows for unauthenticated file …
The technical details Sygnia published about what they called "Operation Highland" are a clear warning: an isolated network can be penetrated and controlled in the long term if th…
Anthropic immediately stopped access to his two most advanced models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after receiving a directive from the U.S. government that orders to block the use by an…
The U.S. government order that forced Anthropic to immediately deactivate access to its most advanced models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, has opened a new phase of the debate on …
The State of Maine temporarily withdrew from the air its public data gap notification portal after the publication of fraudulent notices supplanting companies such as Discord and …
A China-related actor known as Velvet Ant has led persistence to a new level: instead of hiding in new software or own tools, it has modified the programs themselves that decide w…
The attacks on the software supply chain have gained visibility from spectacular episodes: malicious packages in public records, compromised updates or abuse of maintenance accoun…
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new attack technique that exploits the confidence of IA-based programming assistants to run arbitrary code on developer machines, witho…
