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.

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...

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.

In yet another sign that threat actors are always looking out for new ways to trick users into downloading malware, it has come to light that the question-and-answer (Q&A) platform known as Stack Exchange has been abused to direct unsuspecting developers to bogus...

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.

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new Android remote access trojan (RAT) called BingoMod that not only performs fraudulent money transfers from the compromised devices but also wipes them in an attempt to erase traces of the malware. Italian cybersecurity...

The Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (KOPSA) combines two bills to enhance protections for children under 17, prohibiting targeted advertising, requiring consent for data collection, and limiting exposure to harmful content.

Healthcare organizations are jeopardizing patient privacy due to insecure file-sharing practices, according to a report by Metomic. The study found that 25% of publicly shared files in healthcare contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

How to detect and prevent attackers from using these various techniques Obfuscation is an important technique for protecting software that also carries risks, especially when used by malware authors. In this article, we examine obfuscation, its effects, and responses...

TgRat Trojan, previously targeting Windows, now focuses on Linux, using Telegram to control infected machines. Discovered by Dr. Web, this RAT allows cybercriminals to exfiltrate data and execute commands.