House Republicans endorse stricter state and federal-led voter roll purges despite dearth of evidence on fraud

GOP lawmakers say they’re committed to altering national voting laws to make it easier for states to purge potentially eligible voters. 

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After website hack, Arizona election officials unload on Trump’s CISA

As the state responded to a pro-Iranian attack, officials tell CyberScoop that it avoided reaching out to the federal agency, partly because it has been “politicized and weakened” under the president.

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House hearing will use Stuxnet to search for novel ways to confront OT cyberthreats

The House Homeland Committee will revisit the malware to use the knowledge from the spy effort to explore the domestic threats facing the U.S. in 2025. 

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Senate Democrats seek answers on Trump overhaul of immigrant database to find noncitizen voters

The lawmakers say the potential is high for such a system to return false positives, blocking citizens from voting.

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Waltz brushes off SignalGate questions, points finger at CISA 

In congressional testimony, President Trump’s former national security adviser said his use of Signal to coordinate military operations was “driven by” cybersecurity guidance from CISA.

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Why skipping security prompting on Grok’s newest model is a huge mistake

An AI red-teaming company found that xAI’s Grok 4 is “not suitable for enterprises” without substantial security prompting. 

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Is XBOW’s success the beginning of the end of human-led bug hunting? Not yet.

XBOW’s AI bug-hunter landed a big funding round while dominating HackerOne’s leaderboards. But even its founder says it hasn’t fully replaced the need for humans to be involved in the bug-hunting process.

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Trump bill will have major impact on health care cybersecurity, experts warn Congress

Witnesses at a Senate hearing Wednesday connected One Big Beautiful Bill provisions to potential cyber issues in the health care sector, much to GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy’s chagrin.

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Call of Duty takes PC game offline after multiple reports of RCE attacks on players

Gamemakers have only said they are investigating an unspecified “issue.” Players are posting videos of their computers being compromised.

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Cloudflare rolls out ‘pay-per-crawl’ feature to constrain AI’s limitless hunger for data 

The move is the result customer feedback, since they neither wanted to grant AI web crawlers unrestricted access to their data nor block the practice entirely.  

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