Eric Goldstein will depart from his role as executive assistant director for cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency next month, CyberScoop reports.
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced amendments to a 24-year regulation that will require certain financial firms including broker-dealers, funding portals, registered investment advisers, transfer agents, and investment companies to create well-defined response plans for data breach incidents, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
U.S. prosecutors announced the arrests of an American woman and a Ukrainian man for aiding North Korean IT workers posing as Americans to secure remote jobs at over 300 U.S. companies, Reuters reports.
Cybersecurity experts convened at Google's Boulder, Colorado, campus to address election threats, particularly the challenges posed by advanced technologies like deepfakes, CBS News reports.
A study by Amazon Web Services researchers has revealed critical security vulnerabilities in large language models that understand and respond to speech, which could allow them to be manipulated into generating harmful responses using sophisticated audio attacks, according to VentureBeat.
Security researchers have identified a design flaw in the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard that could allow malicious actors to trick users into connecting to less secure networks, The Hacker News reports.
HP's latest Wolf Security Threat Insights Report reveals that cybercriminals are employing "cat-phishing" techniques to deceive victims and using overdue invoice lures and Living-off-the-Land tactics to bypass security defenses, reports SiliconAngle.
The North Korea-linked Kimsuky hacking group has launched a new social engineering campaign targeting activists in the North Korean human rights and anti-North Korea sectors, The Hacker News reports.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has urged Congress to allocate $32 billion for artificial intelligence research to maintain U.S. leadership over China in this crucial technology, Reuters reports.
Reps. Troy Carter, D-La., and Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., introduced the CISA Securing AI Task Force Act on Tuesday urging the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to establish an internal task force to focus on handling artificial intelligence-related safety and security concerns, FedScoop reports.