Vulnerability exploits, pure extortion and internal risks are on the rise, while AI threats fall short ..read more

SiliconAngle reports that more robust high-risk identity threat discovery and response efforts are being aimed by enterprise identity protection startup Semperis with its new machine learning-based Lightning Identity Runtime Protection identity threat detection and response service ..read more

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that former National Security Agency information systems security designer Jareh Sebastian Dalke was given a prison sentence of 262 months, or nearly 22 years, for trying to sell confidential documents with U.S. national defense information to Russia, The Register reports ..read more

Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence, or GUR, has taken responsibility for disrupting the online services of United Russia, the country's ruling party, on Apr. 26, coinciding with Russia's "Victory Dictation" initiative after the party confirmed that its online services had been disrupted by a "massive" distributed denial-of-service attack, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future ..read more

Andrew Witty stuck with the familiar corporate line of providing consumers with two years of credit monitoring ..read more

Only more than 57,000 searches were conducted by the FBI on the database of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2023, representing an over 50% decrease in queries from the previous year that a senior FBI official said was due to the agency's internal reforms, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future ..read more

CISA Director Jen Easterly told lawmakers that Chinese cyberespionage threats warrants budget boost ..read more

SiliconAngle reports that leading open network detection and response startup Corelight has landed $150 million from a Series E funding round ..read more

The UK has become the first country worldwide to prohibit Internet of Things device manufacturers from using default usernames and passwords in their products following the approval of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure act, which seeks to bolster smart device cybersecurity, The Hacker News reports ..read more

The Federal Trade Commission has been sought by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., to launch an investigation into major automakers' driver location data sharing practices after a congressional probe showed that only five of 14 car manufacturers required warrants or court orders before allowing law enforcement access to such data, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future ..read more