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Kevin Carter/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW June 11, 2026 05:16 PM ET Trump’s plan to nominate Jay Clayton as permanent top spy may ease Democrats’ concerns, but lawmakers remain at odds over whether Bill Pulte will lead the intelligence community during the transition. * Congress
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Oracle warned its corporate customers that there is a critical-rated vulnerability in its PeopleSoft software, which is used by large companies to manage payroll and human resources, a day after a cybercrime group took credit for abusing the flaw as part of a mass-hacking campaign. The company published the security
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AI-supported coding has progressed from experimental to the norm in organizations, yet technical debt, security risks, and costs could be piling up much faster than anyone realizes. This is one of the key takeaways from the Software Improvement Group (SIG) 2026 State of Software report, which analyzed more than 30,
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Dive Brief Finding the time to train employees remains the biggest impediment to programs’ success, according to an ISC2 report. Published June 11, 2026 First published on Dive Brief: * Security leaders are seeing their training budgets increase as their organizations prepare workers for the AI era, the cybersecurity certification firm
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Cybercrime activity is rapidly escalating as attackers continue to explore both established and novel methods to defraud victims of their assets. The "FBI Internet Crime Report 2025" logged more than one million cybercrime complaints for the first time in the agency's history, with reported losses reaching
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putilov_denis - stock.adobe.com putilov_denis - stock.adobe.com While adoption of AI tools has surged, security has not kept pace. McKinsey's "State of AI: Global Survey 2025" found that 88% of organizations now use AI in at least one business function. IBM&
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A rapidly developing software supply chain attack known as Miasma is one of the latest to move from targeting Red Hat npm packages to infecting numerous Microsoft GitHub repositories. Cloudsmith researchers described the Miasma attack, noting it began after the compromise of the GitHub account of a Red Hat employee,
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Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Under a new bipartisan bill, Americans could sue for damages if a government official
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In context: Anthropic's latest release is really a story about control, not just capability. The company is offering two versions of the same underlying model: Claude Mythos 5 for a small circle
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* Mythos-based Claude Fable 5 is so powerful, Anthropic mandates data retention for safety monitoring * Microsoft is worried about insiders sharing confidential information with Anthropic's model * Workers told to use Microsoft alternatives, but third-party partner models still available Microsoft has reportedly restricted employees from using Claude's recently
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No disclosure via official channels, no offer of identity theft monitoring, no problem Online chat platform VRChat says a recent cyberattack compromised the data belonging to nearly 2.5 million users. It confirmed the “data security incident” in a report filed with Maine’s attorney general, but has not disclosed
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Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW June 11, 2026 12:19 PM ET Officials have considered having the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency leverage the advanced AI model that was designed to detect previously undiscovered cyber vulnerabilities to scan federal agencies’ networks.
