Trump nominates Sean Plankey as new CISA director
Plankey, if approved by the Senate, will serve as CISA’s third director.
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FTC says Americans lost $12.5B to scams last year — social media, AI and crypto didn’t help
You’re not the only one getting voicemails about your car’s extended warranty. According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), about 2.6 million people submitted reports on falling victim to fraud in 2024, totaling $12.5 billion in losses. That’s a big jump from $2.5 billion lost in 2023, when the FTC received roughly the same […]
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When you should use a VPN – and when you shouldn’t
Using a VPN 24/7 isn’t always the best idea. Here’s why.
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Trump nominates Sean Plankey to run top US cyber agency
Sean Plankey, who served in cybersecurity roles in the first Trump administration, has been officially nominated to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), according to posting of nominations.
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What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X
Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that’s not how it works.
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Edimax Says No Patches Coming for Zero-Day Exploited by Botnets
Edimax is aware that CVE-2025-1316 has been exploited in the wild, but the impacted devices were discontinued over a decade ago.
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Ballista Botnet Exploits Unpatched TP-Link Vulnerability, Infects Over 6,000 Devices
Unpatched TP-Link Archer routers have become the target of a new botnet campaign dubbed Ballista, according to new findings from the Cato CTRL team.
“The botnet exploits a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in TP-Link Archer routers (CVE-2023-1389) to spread itself automatically over the Internet,” security researchers Ofek Vardi and Matan Mittelman said in a technical report shared with
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SAP Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Commerce, NetWeaver
SAP released 21 new security notes and updated three security notes on March 2025 security patch day.
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Sola Security Deposits Hefty $30M Seed Funding
The financing was provided by S Capital and investor Mike Moritz, S32, Glilot Capital Partners, and several angel investors.
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1,600 Victims Hit by South American APT’s Malware
South American cyberespionage group Blind Eagle has infected over 1,600 organizations in Colombia in a recent campaign.
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