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Researchers said it’s the first-ever mapping of attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure.
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Plankey had been waiting for more than a year, prompting the request to withdraw him as the one tapped to lead an agency now in further upheaval.
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Chatrie v. United States asks whether a single warrant can justify a location-data dragnet — and what “probable cause” means when the search starts with basically everyone nearby.
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The ideas came up at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, as health care ransomware attacks are on the rise.
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Congress overhauled Section 702 in 2024 with 56 changes. Now, as the law nears expiration, supporters and critics can’t even agree on what the numbers show.
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National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said execution of the strategy is “rolling forward actively.”
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FBI cyber chief Brett Leatherman told CyberScoop the Russian GRU campaign was unique in how it could propagate from routers to beyond.
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Access Now, Lookout and SMEX joined research forces to find a campaign involving suspected Indian government-connected group Bitter, ProSpy spyware and more.
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Iranian government hackers are launching disruptive cyberattacks on American energy and water infrastructure, U.S. government agencies “urgently” warned Tuesday. The hackers are taking aim at devices and systems that control industrial processes, and have harmed victims in the last month following the onset of U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran, according to the joint alert from the […]
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Bryan Fleming won’t face prison time for a count to which he pled guilty in January, in a rare case of a successful U.S. stalkerware prosecution.
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