Angus Loten and James Rundle report: The Trump administration wants state and local governments to play a bigger role in protecting water utilities, ports and other critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. In an executive order signed Tuesday, President Trump directed White House senior security advisers to draw up a national resilience plan to protect critical infrastructure…
Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek’s service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users’ personal data. The development comes days after the authority, the Garante, sent a series of questions to DeepSeek, asking about its data handling practices and where it obtained its…
Geoffrey A. Fowler writes: If you’re one of the 15 million people who shared your DNA with 23andMe, it’s time to delete your data. The genetic information company, best known for its saliva test kits, announced Sunday that it is headed to bankruptcy court to sell its assets. And 23andMe’s financial distress prompted California Attorney General Rob…
Phishing attacks remain a huge challenge for organizations in 2025. In fact, with attackers increasingly leveraging identity-based techniques over software exploits, phishing arguably poses a bigger threat than ever before. Attackers are increasingly leveraging identity-based techniques over software exploits, with phishing and stolen credentials (a byproduct of phishing) now the primary
TechCrunch recently did its annual write-up of badly handled data security incidents. The following wasn’t in it but is one of the worst security and privacy failures that I’ve ever read, and that’s saying a lot. This case stems from a ransomware attack by Medusa Locker in October 2020 that is first being seriously addressed…
The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the launch of the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a new cybersecurity safety label for Internet-of-Things (IoT) consumer devices. “IoT products can be susceptible to a range of security vulnerabilities,” the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said. “Under this program, qualifying consumer smart products that meet robust cybersecurity standards will…
A recently patched security vulnerability in the 7-Zip archiver tool was exploited in the wild to deliver the SmokeLoader malware. The flaw, CVE-2025-0411 (CVSS score: 7.0), allows remote attackers to circumvent mark-of-the-web (MotW) protections and execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. It was addressed by 7-Zip in November 2024 with version…
