Las Vegas didn’t fold during CrowdStrike outage

Sin City’s chief information officer says incident response playbooks and muscle memory limited the incident’s impact locally.

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Easterly: Potential Chinese cyberattack could unfold like CrowdStrike error

CISA director calls CrowdStrike-linked outage a “dress rehearsal” for what China may have planned for U.S. critical infrastructure.

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Windows Update Flaws Allow Undetectable Downgrade Attacks

Researcher showcases hack against Microsoft Windows Update architecture, turning fixed vulnerabilities into zero-days.
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White House Recommends Memory-Safe Programming Languages and Security-by-Design

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Cyber Safety Review Board needs stronger authorities, more independence, experts say

The CSRB needs to become more transparent regarding its membership and the cases it takes on, experts told Congress.

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