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Jen Easterly, cybersecurity's 'relentless optimist,' hopes feds come back to RSAC next year
RSAC 2026 "Everybody feels massive FOMO if they don't get to RSAC," Jen Easterly says.…
Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war
rsac 2026 There's a theoretical red line with cyber warfare. Cross it, and the US will respond with a physical attack like missile strikes. And that line "is whatever the President says it is," according to former NSA boss retired General Paul Nakasone.…
Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs
End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…
EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom
interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…
1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…
LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised
Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code.…
HackerOne slams supplier for delayed breach notice after staff data exposed
Almost 300 HackerOne employees are caught up in a data breach, with the bug bounty biz slamming a third-party benefits provider for a weeks-long delay in notification.…
New routers? Made abroad? Yeah, that's going to be a no from Uncle Sam
Citing national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.…
Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in US prison
A Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his handiwork to a string of ransomware attacks costing victims millions of dollars.…
Claude attacks were 'Rorschach test' for infosec community, scaring former NSA boss
RSAC 2026 The now-infamous Anthropic report about Chinese cyberspies abusing Claude AI to automate cyberattacks was a Rorschach test for the infosec community, according to former NSA cyber boss Rob Joyce.…
Public-private partnerships vital in disrupting China's Typhoons, says RSA panel with no government speakers
RSA 2026 Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government's top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to share information, in real time, about this loosely knit extortion ring that was terrorizing enterprises.…
Lightning-fast exploits make it essential to patch fast, ask questions later
Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to exploit vulns, and fooling more staff than ever into giving up their credentials. …
Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web
Google's Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization.…
Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says
Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims' IT estate – and the No. 1 tactic used when breaking into cloud environments.…
US chip testing firm shrugged off ransomware hit as minor - then came the data leak
Trio-Tech International initially shrugged off a ransomware attack at a Singapore subsidiary as immaterial, only to reverse course days later after discovering stolen data had been disclosed.…
RSAC 2026: Uncle Sam backs out, and AI agents are everywhere
kettle When El Reg cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons joins infosec industry colleagues in San Francisco for RSAC 2026 this week, she's expecting agentic AI to be on everyone's lips - at least those who aren't busy gossiping about the lack of presence from any representatives of the US federal government.…
Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates
Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve bugs introduced by a Windows patch just days after promising improved reliability.…
The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope
NATO is unprepared to deal with attacks by cheap, mass-produced drones and urgently needs layered, affordable air defense systems to counter the threat, taking a cue from the experience gained by Ukrainian forces over the past four years.…
Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks
Infosec In Brief Russian intelligence-affiliated parties are posing as customer support services on commercial messaging applications such as Signal to compromise accounts and conduct phishing attacks, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned last Friday.…
Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban
Since February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography libraries to address what he says are critical bugs. For his efforts, he's been dismissed, ignored, and banned from Rust security channels.…