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Kiteworks Told Customers to Go Dark for Nine Hours After a Federal Warning
Fewer than 50 organisations use the affected feature. No breach has been confirmed. But the feds thought the risk serious enough to pick up the phone.
Two Critical Check Point Flaws Are Being Actively Exploited and Federal Agencies Had Three Days to Patch
CISA added both vulnerabilities to its must-patch list on September 22, with a September 25 deadline for US government networks. One was a zero-day. The other had already been quietly targeted in the wild.
100 Tech Giants Warned That AI Is Making Cyberattacks Easier. They Forgot to Mention Who Will Stop Them.
More than 100 companies signed an open letter about AI-powered hacking. A veteran security educator read it closely and found the plan had no people in it.
Justice Department Walks Back Claim That U.S. Agencies Were Hacked by China
The DOJ now says agencies including NASA and the Federal Reserve were targeted by Chinese hackers, not breached, a meaningful climb-down in the language of the original announcement.
CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Palo Alto Firewall Flaw Being Exploited Now
A misconfigured URL filtering setting in Palo Alto Networks firewall software is letting attackers weaponise the firewalls themselves, turning them into unwitting cannons pointed at other targets.