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NIST shifts National Vulnerability Database to risk-based triage as CVE submissions hit record levels
11+ hour, 3+ min ago (564+ words) UPDATED 22: 52 EDT / APRIL 15 2026 The U. S. National Institute of Standards and Technology today'announced an overhaul of how it processes cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its National Vulnerability Database. NIST enriched nearly 42, 000 CVEs in 2025, up 45% year-over-year, but the increase in output has not been enough…...
Cisco expands secure-by-default strategy with new resilient infrastructure initiative
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (408+ words) UPDATED 17: 50 EDT / NOVEMBER 20 2025 Cisco Systems Inc. is expanding its push into secure-by-default networking with a new initiative announced today. The initiative involves accelerating the retirement of older, insecure capabilities embedded across the networking ecosystem, including deprecating features that introduce unnecessary…...
Anthropic debuts Project Glasswing, leveraging its powerful Mythos model to reinforce software security
1+ week, 1+ day ago (347+ words) UPDATED 20: 02 EDT / APRIL 07 2026 Anthropic PBC said today it's releasing a preview of the most powerful frontier model it has ever developed, making it available to a small coterie of partners and cybersecurity researchers to help secure the world's software. The…...
Open AI Codex vulnerability enabled Git Hub token theft via command injection, report finds
2+ week, 3+ day ago (381+ words) UPDATED 09: 00 EDT / MARCH 30 2026 A'critical vulnerability in Open AI Group PBC's Codex coding agent could have exposed sensitive Git Hub authentication tokens through a command injection flaw,'according to a'new report out today from Phantom Labs, the research arm of identity…...
Anthropic slams Chinese AI firms for harvesting data from its Claude chatbot
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (484+ words) UPDATED 18: 45 EST / FEBRUARY 23 2026 Anthropic PBC is claiming that three Chinese artificial intelligence companies are illegally harvesting massive amounts of data from its chatbot Claude in an effort to accelerate the development of their own platforms. In a blog post'today, Anthropic…...
Former US cybersecurity professionals plead guilty to Black Cat/ALPHV attacks
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (250+ words) UPDATED 17: 55 EST / DECEMBER 30 2025 Two former American cybersecurity professionals have pleaded guilty in federal court for their roles in carrying out ransomware attacks using the notorious ALPHV/Black Cat malware, the very type of threat they were employed to defend against....
DDo S attack knocks France's postal service La Poste offline during holiday peak
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (446+ words) UPDATED 18: 09 EST / DECEMBER 23 2025 France's national postal service," La Poste and its banking arm, La Banque Postale, were knocked offline on Monday in a distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted services at the height of the Christmas season. The attack rendered La…...
Gainsight breach reportedly compromises major tech firms" Salesforce instances
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (475+ words) UPDATED 18: 26 EST / NOVEMBER 21 2025 A breach at software provider Gainsight Inc. may have compromised the data of more than 200 Salesforce Inc. customers, including several large tech firms. The cyberattack was disclosed by Salesforce late Wednesday. Today, a Google LLC cybersecurity researcher…...
Congressional Budget Office breached by suspected foreign hackers
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (628+ words) UPDATED 16: 22 EST / NOVEMBER 07 2025 The Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, has been breached by hackers that are believed to be affiliated with a foreign actor. The agency disclosed the incident on Thursday. According to the Washington Post, CBO officials first discovered…...
Bugcrowd acquires AI security startup Mayhem to fuse hacker ingenuity with machine intelligence
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (295+ words) UPDATED 08: 00 EST / NOVEMBER 04 2025 Founded in 2012, Mayhem Security emerged from research at Carnegie Mellon University to automate the discovery and remediation of software vulnerabilities. The company was founded by cybersecurity researchers including David Brumley and Thanassis Avgerinos, who built capabilities originally…...