CISA's interim director Madhu Gottumukkala is reassigned as DHS' director of strategic implementation; executive assistant director Nick Andersen will take over
The nominee to serve as CISA director has not yet received a hearing. — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …
Memo: Meta considered adding facial recognition to its smart glasses during a “dynamic political environment” in the US when civil society groups are distracted
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.
Memo: Meta considered adding facial recognition to its smart glasses during a “dynamic political environment” in the US when civil society groups are distracted
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.
Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made jokes about ICE during an employee event, internal messages show. — Some employees took to Slack to express anger and disappointment.
Sources: CISA's interim director Madhu Gottumukkala triggered automated security warnings in summer 2025 by uploading sensitive documents to ChatGPT
Cybersecurity sensors at CISA flagged the uploads this past August, said the four officials. One official specified there were multiple …
Sources: the interim director of CISA, Madhu Gottumukkala, triggered automated security warnings last summer by uploading sensitive documents to ChatGPT
Cybersecurity sensors at CISA flagged the uploads this past August, said the four officials. One official specified there were multiple …
Europol, Eurojust, and others dismantle 1,025 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infostealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet, in the latest Operation Endgame phase
Law enforcement authorities from nine countries have taken down over 1,000 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infolstealer …
Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the US agency's long-term cyber capabilities
The National Security Agency is confronting a wave of internal strain — including leadership gaps, program cuts and deferred resignation offers … X: @joedoc2112 . Bluesky: @ericjge...
Xi Jinping joked about security backdoors when presenting South Korean President Lee Jae Myung with two Xiaomi smartphones at APEC, amid the US' Huawei concerns
Chinese President Xi Jinping joked about security backdoors while presenting a pair of Xiaomi Corp. smartphones to his South Korean counterpart …
Sources: the US DHS has reassigned hundreds of CISA workers into jobs that support deportations, including at ICE, and said it would dismiss anyone who refused
“It seems like it's in an effort to get them to quit instead of firing them,” a US official told me. — I'm off for the rest of the week (timing!) but I'll have a story on this sh...
Study: Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek can be easily used to create phishing emails targeting the elderly, despite being trained to refuse
Major AI chatbots were happy to help. — Reuters and a Harvard University researcher used top chatbots to plot a simulated phishing scam …
Microsoft says it curtailed Chinese companies' access to advance vulnerability notifications via MAPP starting in July, after probing the SharePoint breach
Microsoft Corp. has curtailed Chinese companies' access to advance notifications about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its technology …
Document: Microsoft's 2025 System Security Plan submitted to the DOD, dated February 28, failed to disclose China-based engineers maintaining DoD cloud systems
The tech giant is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking.
Sources: NSA Director William Hartman unsuccessfully tried to protect Vinh Nguyen, an expert in AI and cryptology, from being fired on President Trump's orders
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u... X: Julia Ioffe / @juliaioffe : “Ms. Gabbard, on orders from President Trump, fired the scientist, who was a leading government expert on artificial ...
Sources: US investigators found evidence that Russia is at least partly responsible for the US federal court's filing system being under attack since early July
New York Times :
A senior US official says the recent hack of the US federal court filing system is a “continuation of the same rudimentary security issues” present since 2020
The latest intrusion is a “continuation of the same rudimentary security issues” that have been present since 2020, said the law enforcement official.
Sources: the US federal judiciary's electronic case filing system was hit in a sweeping hack, potentially compromising the identities of confidential informants
It is not immediately clear who is behind the hack, though nation-state-affiliated actors are widely suspected, the people said.
Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws
Bloomberg :
The SharePoint hacks increase pressure on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company calls an ambitious effort expected to take years to complete
Three months ago, Microsoft Corp. issued a progress report on what it described as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history.
Microsoft releases a patch for a SharePoint 0-day RCE flaw exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers and says SharePoint 2016 updates are in the works
Microsoft Corp. warned that hackers are actively targeting customers of its document management software SharePoint …