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Breaches, ransomware and regulation — analysed the day they break, with the practical lessons your team can act on. Free to read, no account required.
Federal Push for Quantum-Resistant Cryptography: New Deadlines and Initiatives
The U.S. government mandates a nationwide shift to quantum-resistant cryptography by 2030, impacting federal agencies and contractors.
Operation Endgame Dismantles SocGholish Infrastructure, Cleans 14,971 Hacked WordPress Sites
A Dutch-led coalition spanning four countries has taken down command-and-control servers powering the SocGholish malware loader and force-remediated nearly 15,000 compromised websites — marking the latest phase of the largest coordinated botnet-disruption effort in history.
Macron Calls for G7 Nations to Unify AI Oversight — and Wants Washington in the Room
France's president is urging wealthy democracies to treat advanced AI governance as a shared responsibility, not a domestic footnote. The gap between political will and enforceable policy remains dangerously wide.
How a Junior Hacker Kept Access to a French Auto Firm Long After His C2 Server Went Dark
A commodity intrusion at a small French automotive business exposed a gap most incident-response playbooks still miss: killing the command-and-control beacon does not end the incident if the attacker already installed OpenSSH and Tailscale.
Google Plans to Use UK and EU IP Addresses for Ad Targeting From August 2026 — and That Should Concern Your Security Team
A signal Google once condemned as a privacy circumvention becomes official ad infrastructure. The ICO is watching. So should your identity and threat-detection teams.
DOJ Seizes CFAKE and SOCFAKE in First TAKE IT DOWN Act Enforcement Action
Federal agents pulled two of the internet's busiest deepfake nude sites offline, marking the first publicly announced domain seizure under a law signed just weeks ago.
Washington Orders Anthropic to Block Foreign Nationals From Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — So Anthropic Pulled Both Models Entirely
Faced with an export-control-style directive it disputes, Anthropic suspended two frontier AI models worldwide rather than build nationality-gated access infrastructure. The standoff raises hard questions about who controls frontier AI and how.
Anthropic Takes Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Offline Under White House Export Control Directive
The Trump administration's push to treat frontier AI as dual-use technology forced Anthropic to pull two models entirely — a compliance signal that reshapes how AI labs think about regulatory risk.
npm v12 Will Block Auto-Run Install Scripts by Default Starting July 2025
GitHub's decision to disable automatic lifecycle script execution in npm v12 closes a well-worn supply chain attack path — but security engineers warn the threat is far from finished.
CISA's BOD 26-04 Kills CVSS-First Patching — and Gives Agencies Three Days on the Worst Flaws
A new binding directive replaces severity-score timelines with a four-factor risk model. Federal agencies must remediate the highest-risk vulnerabilities within 72 hours. The rest of the industry should be paying close attention.
IG Report Blames NIST for NVD Backlog — Severity Scores Match Only 12% of the Time
A Commerce Department watchdog formally faulted NIST for strategic failures, duplicated enrichment work, and CVSS scores so inconsistent that independent evaluators agreed with them barely one time in eight.
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