The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved Michael Sulmeyer, the Army’s top digital adviser, as the inaugural assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, paving the way for his nomination to the Senate floor for a vote.
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Birgit Hofer and Thomas Hirsch from TU Graz have developed a new approach to speed up software bug fixes. By identifying bottlenecks in fault localization, they created a scalable solution using NLP and metrics to analyze code for faults.
DigiCert discovered a bug in how domain ownership was verified, leading to the mass revocation of SSL/TLS certificates. Approximately 0.4% of domain validations conducted between August 2019 and June 2024 are affected.
Over a million domains are susceptible to takeover by malicious actors by means of what has been called a Sitting Ducks attack.
The powerful attack vector, which exploits weaknesses in the domain name system (DNS), is being exploited by over a dozen Russian-nexus cybercriminal actors to stealthily hijack domains, a joint analysis published by Infoblox and Eclypsium has revealed.
“In a Sitting
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Security researchers have uncovered the largest ransomware payment ever recorded, amounting to $75m, which was made to the Dark Angels group. This finding was revealed in Zscaler’s ThreatLabz Ransom Report for 2024.
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Joshua Caleb Sutter infiltrated far-right extremist organizations as a confidential FBI informant, all while promoting hateful ideologies that influenced some of the internet’s most violent groups.
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