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Wind turbines are seen on a wind farm on a field between agricultural produce in a countryside in a village near Radom, Poland on May 19, 2025. (Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto)

After major Poland energy grid cyberattack, CISA issues warning to U.S. audience

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the attack highlighted threats from vulnerable edge devices to operational technology and industrial control systems.

By Tim Starks

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday matches last year’s zero-day high with six actively exploited vulnerabilities

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By Matt Kapko

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Fallout from latest Ivanti zero-days spreads to nearly 100 victims

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By Matt Kapko

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Cyber scholarship-for-service students say government has pulled rug on them, potentially burdening them with debt

Hiring freezes, budget cuts and more are raising questions about the future of CyberCorps.

By Tim Starks

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A house full of open windows: Why telecoms may never purge their networks of Salt Typhoon

Experts tell CyberScoop that the U.S. telecom system is just too technologically fragmented to gather a clear picture of threats, and too big to ever fully eject…

By Derek B. Johnson

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‘Whatever we did was not enough’: How Salt Typhoon slipped through the government’s blind spots

Seven sources tell CyberScoop that a lack of coordination and miscommunication between federal agencies and the telecommunications industry left critical networks exposed to the Chinese hacking group.

By Tim Starks

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Prolific Russian ransomware operator living in California enjoys rare leniency awaiting trial

Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko allegedly committed ransomware attacks from 2018 to 2022. He’s been out on bond since his arrest almost a year ago, despite multiple run-ins with…

By Matt Kapko

Who needs VC funding? How cybercriminals spread their ill-gotten gains to everyday business ventures

By Matt Kapko

Trump and others want to ramp up cyber offense, but there’s plenty of doubt about the idea

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Who is sending those scammy text messages about unpaid tolls?

By Matt Kapko

Despite challenges, the CVE program is a public-private partnership that has shown resilience

By Cynthia Brumfield

Legal barriers complicate justice for spyware victims

By Tim Starks

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Why cyber modernization requires partners with technical plus acquisition expertise

By Katie Baxter

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Why identity is the definitive cyber defense for federal agencies

By Daniel Wilbricht

Agencies push for digital transformation amid security challenges

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

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Why blocking cyber threats is no longer enough

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To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy

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Red Hat’s Adam Clater on navigating zero trust’s unknowns

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Opportunistic by Default: How OT gets pulled into the blast radius

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Why boards should be obsessed with their most ‘boring’ systems

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 03: (L-R) Chairman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ranking member Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) arrive for a hearing with the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on December 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., wants hearings to force AT&T and Verizon to disclose how they’ve responded to the hacks to protect telecom networks. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Cantwell claims telecoms blocked release of Salt Typhoon report

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What’s next for DHS’s forthcoming replacement critical infrastructure protection panel, AI information sharing

A logo sign outside of the headquarters of Ivanti in South Jordan, Utah. (Kristoffer Tripplaar / Alamy Stock Photo)

Ivanti’s EPMM is under active attack, thanks to two critical zero-days

Sean Cairncross, as CEO of the Millenium Challenge Corporation, speaks onstage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. (Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)

Sean Cairncross’ cybersecurity agenda: less regulation, more cooperation

A poll worker helps a person cast their ballot at Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church on December 2, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. Voters head to the polls to fill the house seat left vacant after the resignation of Republican Mark Green. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

As feds pull back, states look inward for election security support

Members of the Peoples Liberation Army band leave after the closing session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, or CPPCC, at the Great Hall of the People on March 10, 2025 in Beijing. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

China-based espionage group compromised Notepad++ for six months

“Move fast and break things” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg onstage at the F8 conference 2014. (Mike Deerkoski via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

We moved fast and broke things. It’s time for a change.

n this photo illustration, the video streaming apps Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, Paramount Plus, Max and Discovery Plus seen displayed on a smartphone. The Department of Justice took down IPTV sites that were illegally streaming content from the apps. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

DOJ seizes piracy sites, Italian police dismantle illegal IPTV operation

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Google’s disruption rips millions out of devices out of malicious network

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Cybersecurity can be America’s secret weapon in the AI race

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The ‘staggering’ cybersecurity weakness that isn’t getting enough focus, according to a top Secret Service official

U.S. President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order during the “Winning the AI Race” summit hosted by All‑In Podcast and Hill & Valley Forum at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on July 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Trump signed executive orders related to his Artificial Intelligence Action Plan during the event. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

US wants to push its view of AI cybersecurity standards to the rest of the world

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