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Taylor Swift performs onstage during “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at Wembley Stadium on August 15, 2024 in London, England. Swift cited the deepfake photo of her endorsing Donald Trump as a reason she released a statement on who she was voting for in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management )

Taylor Swift cites AI-generated images from Trump campaign in Harris endorsement

The pop star said Trump's deepfake post on Truth Social "really conjured up" her "fears around AI."

By Derek B. Johnson

U.S. Postal Service (USPS) trucks are parked at a post office on Aug. 23 in Glendale, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Election officials say U.S. Postal Service woes place election mail at risk

Government

By Tim Starks

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WordPress.org to require two-factor authentication for plugin developers

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Here’s what Microsoft fixed in September’s Patch Tuesday

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Four Delaware men charged in international sextortion scheme that netted nearly $2 million

By AJ Vicens
Russian, Kazakhstani men living in Miami indicted over cybercrime training service

By AJ Vicens
Intel officials expect more foreign influence efforts leading up to Election Day

By Derek B. Johnson
Major Iranian IT vendor paying large ransom to resolve recent cyberattack

By AJ Vicens

Ted Schlein on the cybersecurity industry and the latest twist in the Trump-Iran hacking saga

Hack-and-leak op targets Trump; a technical deep dive with John Hammond on the CrowdStrike outage

A deep dive with Tim Starks on the Biden administration’s cybersecurity initiatives

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Popular Stories

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Zero trust: How the ‘Jia Tan’ hack complicated open-source software

The volunteers that maintain open-source software have always been knocked around by the tech community. The Jia Tan hack made it all so much worse.

By Christian Vasquez

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Sanctioned and exposed, Predator spyware maker group has gone awfully quiet

By Tim Starks

Benjamin Franklin writing his Autobiography. Franklin's creation of a volunteer fire department has sparked an idea amongst the cybersecurity community. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images) — Benjamin Franklin writing his Autobiography. Franklin’s creation of a volunteer fire department has sparked an idea amongst the cybersecurity community. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

How Benjamin Franklin is inspiring defenders to protect critical infrastructure

By Christian Vasquez

The front of the U.S. Supreme Court building is seen after sunset on June 24, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Cybersecurity regulations face ‘uphill battle’ after Chevron ruling

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Rethinking democracy for the age of AI

By Bruce Schneier

When it comes to online scams, ‘ChatGPT is the new crypto’

By AJ Vicens

The pressing threat of Chinese-made drones flying above U.S. critical infrastructure

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The quantum computing threat is real. Now we need to act.

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House Republican sounds the alarm on threats to food and agriculture sector

By Christian Vasquez

The missed opportunities in White House’s critical infrastructure directive

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Insights

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Want to scale cyber defenders? Focus on AI-enabled security and organization-wide training

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Data-driven decision-making: The power of enhanced event logging

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Operationalizing zero trust: A practical guide for modern federal agencies

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Meeting zero-trust mandates with strategic partnerships

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Videos

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AWS and CrowdStrike leaders discuss zero trust implementation and the path ahead

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Podcasts

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Dewey Murdick on enabling principles for AI governance; a landmark breach at AT&T

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Allan Liska on why it’s time to ban ransomware payments; Russian info ops

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Selena Larson on e-crime matching nation state hackers; Disinfo before the Supreme Court

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Protecting teens against sextortion; threats to election workers

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Keeping Ukraine’s grid up and running amid war; Snowflake customers under attack

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Cars drive past the headquarters of the Russian General Staff’s Main Intelligence Department (GRU) in Moscow on December 30, 2016. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. charges five Russian military members for destructive cyber ops, hack-and-leak campaigns

Gen. Timothy Haugh speaks at a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on July 20, 2023. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Cyber Command leader says budget powers are shaving time to complete tasks that once took years

Planned Parenthood signage on August 19th 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)

Planned Parenthood of Montana confirms cyberattack

Congolese soldiers sit in their military vehicle at the base of the United Nations Organization Mission for the Stabilization of the Congo (MONUSCO) in Kamanyola, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on Feb. 28. (Photo by Glody MURHABAZI / AFP)

Predator spyware resurfaces with signs of activity, Recorded Future says

Attorney General Merrick Garland announces the indictments of two employees of Russia’s RT and sanctions on top editors of the state-funded news outlet, accusing them of seeking to influence the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Garland chaired the meeting of the DOJ’s Election Threats Task Force in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 4, 2024. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Justice Department accuses Russia of interfering with 2024 elections

Traffic streaks past the Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters building late in the evening on May 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Nigerian man sentenced to 5 years for role in BEC operation

Optical fiber wires are connected to high-speed interfaces. (klmax/Getty Images/iStock)

White House publishes latest plan to protect a key component of the internet

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly testifies before a House Homeland Security subcommittee on April 28 in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

CISA moves away from trying to influence content moderation decisions on election disinformation

The logo of American cloud computing and virtualization technology company VMware. (Photo by Josep LAGO / AFP) (Photo by JOSEP LAGO/AFP via Getty Images)

VMWare releases Fusion vulnerability with 8.8 rating

The inspiration for the new ransomware’s name. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

New ransomware variant has BlackCat-like similarities, report says

Former U.S. President Donald Trump during the National Guard Association of the United States’ 146th General Conference & Exhibition at Huntington Place Convention Center on Aug. 26 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

Who would be the cyber pros in a second Trump term?

US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. Harris was among multiple politicians denigrated by the Chinese-linked group Spamouflage. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Disinfo group Spamouflage more aggressively targeting U.S. elections, candidates

Admiral Grace M. Hopper Saluting Aboard Vessel — Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper salutes crew members as she comes aboard the US S Constitution in Boston’s Charlestown section for her retirement ceremony 8/14. Hopper, the U. S. Navy’s oldest commissioned officer on active duty, retired after serving over 40 years in a Navy uniform. The NSA recently released a lecture she gave on base in 1982. (Getty Images)

WATCH: NSA releases lecture from computer science pioneer Rear Adm. Grace Hopper

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