CISA election, disinformation officials placed on administrative leave, sources say

The moves happened Thursday and Friday last week, per a source.

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DOJ disbands foreign influence task force, limits scope of FARA prosecutions 

Both the task force and FARA were used by the bureau to investigate, charge and disrupt foreign and domestic actors accused of working to influence American policy on behalf of other nations.

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Hugging Face platform continues to be plagued by vulnerable ‘pickles’

A widely used python module for machine-learning developers can be loaded with malware and bypass detection measures.

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Cybersecurity, government experts are aghast at security failures in DOGE takeover

Elon Musk’s takeover of key systems across the federal government is ignoring decades of laws, regulations and procedures, experts told CyberScoop. 

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Tulsi Gabbard tussles with senators over Snowden, surveillance 

President Trump’s nominee to lead ODNI substantially revised her previous positions on the former NSA contractor and Section 702 spying authorities.

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DARPA wants to create ‘self-healing’ firmware that can respond and recover from cyberattacks 

The agency’s Red-C program seeks to build new defenses into bus-based computer systems. 

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Vulnerability in popular AI developer could ‘shut down essentially everything you own’ 

The flaw in Lightning.AI’s platform, which has been patched, would have given root access to an attacker and broad control over a victim’s cloud-based studio and connected systems. 

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DeepSeek AI claims services are facing ‘large-scale malicious attacks’ 

As its low-cost AI model receives accolades, the Chinese company says ongoing attacks on its services are making it harder for new users to sign up. 

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‘Severe’ bug in ChatGPT’s API could be used to DDoS websites

The vulnerability, described by a researcher as “bad programming,” allows an attacker to send unlimited connection requests through ChatGPT’s API.

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