China-Linked TA416 Targets European Governments with PlugX and OAuth-Based Phishing
A China-aligned threat actor has set its sights on European government and diplomatic organizations since mid-2025, following a two-year period of minimal...
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California to bar AI vendors that can’t prove bias safeguards
AI vendors selling to the California state government must prove they have safeguards against algorithmic bias, civil rights violations, and...
China-Linked groups target Southeast Asian government with advanced malware in 2025
China-Linked groups target Southeast Asian government with advanced malware in 2025 Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2026 China-linked groups hit a...
Anthropic wins reprieve against US DoD ban, buying time for contractors to assess AI supply chains
She added, “At oral argument, government counsel suggested that Anthropic showed its subversive tendencies by ‘questioning’ the use of its...
How redaction software can help government agencies comply with FOIA
Government agencies face a dual mandate: respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests swiftly while protecting sensitive personal...
What Golden Dome Requires from Federal DevSecOps Teams
The threat environment facing the United States is growing more complex and interconnected. Executive Order 14186 identifies the threat...
Post-Quantum Cryptography for Authentication: The Enterprise Migration Guide 2026
Imagine a classified government file, encrypted today with RSA-2048, containing diplomatic communications that will remain sensitive for the next...
OMB Rolled Back the Rules. Security Did Not Get Easier
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s decision to rescind M-22-18 and M-23-16 and replace them with M-26-05...
US orders diplomats to push back on data sovereignty
The US government has ordered its diplomats to actively oppose other countries’ attempts to introduce so-called data sovereignty laws that...
Emulating the Mutative BlackByte Ransomware
BlackByte is a ransomware strain operated under the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model that emerged in July 2021. Early versions of...
Conduent Breach Surges to Over 25M, Could Be Largest in US History
Image: Adobe Stock The data breach that rocked government IT contractor Conduent back in January 2025 just keeps growing, and...
When AI Knows Something is Wrong, But No One is Accountable
In the absence of government regulation, we are leaving it to individual tech companies to determine when their own...
Amid the AI onslaught, a few silver linings for US tech jobs
The BLS data also accounts for federal, state, and local government jobs, which was the biggest loser with about 438,000...
U.S. Public Sector Under Siege
The convergence of digital transformation and evolving threat landscapes has placed US government agencies and educational institutions on the frontlines...
Smashing Security podcast #453: The Epstein Files didn’t hide this hacker very well
Supposedly redacted Jeffrey Epstein files can still reveal exactly who they’re talking about – especially when AI, LinkedIn, and a...
