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Finn Gomez/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 25, 2026 02:44 PM ET A bipartisan group says unfinished export control rules leave civilian intelligence services able to obtain U.S. cyber, surveillance and AI assistance. * Congress * International * Commerce * Intelligence A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers is
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A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639 labeled real-world
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* The US government has issued a revision to its National Security Science & Technology Strategy * Among various changes is the reduced focus on high-performance data storage and data centers * Instead, emerging technologies are given greater prominence, while data storage and data centers feature within the document’s information management priorities
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Attackers now ready to exploit how things work, rather than just break them, says Oracle support expert In late July, Oracle released a mammoth security patch dump with 1,449 patches, in a perhaps unprecedented bad day for database admins. None of them, it turns out, would have prevented the
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This year’s Gamescom hasn’t even kicked off with its Opening Night Light event, but that hasn’t stopped CD Projekt Red from getting the party started early. The developer of the popular Witcher seriesand Cyberpunk 2077 provided fans with a little bit of an update for the next
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A cyberattack has traditionally involved a series of steps: identifying a target, mapping its environment, finding an exploitable weakness, gaining access, and determining how far that access can be extended. Each of these steps takes time. AI is beginning to compress that entire cycle. Security teams are already responsible for
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AI agents don’t give up easily. Trained to reason like humans, they’ll look for the easiest way to solve a problem, even if that involves bending the rules, slipping out onto the web and hacking an unsuspecting website. That’s what a group of OpenAI models in a
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* Researcher Dominik Reichel found SLEEPWALKER, a silent malware implant disguised as ESET’s agent * It contains no malicious code, activates only after receiving crafted network signals * Likely a nation‑state project targeting specific victims; no active campaigns confirmed yet Security researchers discovered a new and rather unusual piece of malware.
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* The BBC is moving to dismiss Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit over a 2024 documentary * Trump’s amended complaint relies on 34 unauthorized play-starts in Florida accessed via virtual private networks (VPNs) * The BBC argues that penalizing broadcasters for viewers bypassing geo-blocks could have "massive implications&
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Welcome one, welcome all to another HackerNoon Company of the Week feature. Every week, we highlight a standout company from our Tech Company Database that's making waves in the global tech ecosystem and the lives of its users. Our database features everything from S&P giants to
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In Brief 8:48 AM PDT · August 25, 2026 In the long wait for the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI, an open-world game about crime, some in the gaming community are being targeted by cybercriminals in the real world. Fans are still waiting for the game more than a
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during a press conference at the Cash Room of the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., on August 24, 2026, as he announces a new set of sanctions against Iran, describing the measures as âan economic D-Day. Mehmet Eser/Anadolu via Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta,
