Reuters reports: A cyberattack on the Washington Post compromised the email accounts of several journalists and was most likely the work of a foreign government, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Matt Murray, the Washington Post’s executive editor, said in an internal memo that the breach was discovered on Thursday and an investigation had…
Zack Whittaker reports: A consumer-grade spyware operation called SpyX was hit by a data breach last year, TechCrunch has learned. The breach reveals that SpyX and two other related mobile apps had records on almost two million people at the time of the breach, including thousands of Apple users. The data breach dates back to…
Stephen Brun reports: An employee of Summerside’s Prince County Hospital accessed the personal files of more than 100 patients without permission, Health P.E.I. says. In a news release Monday afternoon, the health agency said it discovered the breach of the provincial electronic record system last fall and has sent letters to the affected patients. It…
There’s an update to an insider data breach previously announced in January 2025. Yesterday’s announcement brings the new total affected to almost 95,000 people. April 30, 2025. AUSTIN – The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is notifying an additional 33,529 recipients of agency services and other affected individuals that their protected health, personal identifying…
AI agents have rapidly evolved from experimental technology to essential business tools. The OWASP framework explicitly recognizes that Non-Human Identities play a key role in agentic AI security. Their analysis highlights how these autonomous software entities can make decisions, chain complex actions together, and operate continuously without human intervention. They’re no longer just tools,
Chris Riotta reports: Turkish-linked cyber spies used a zero-day exploit housed in a popular chat software to target Kurdish military operations in Iraq, Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported Monday. Microsoft’s cybersecurity research arm said the threat actor tracked as “Marbled Dust” exploited unpatched user accounts in the Output Messenger Server Manager application, allowing the group to collect user…
61% of security leaders reported suffering a breach due to failed or misconfigured controls over the past 12 months. This is despite having an average of 43 cybersecurity tools in place. This massive rate of security failure is clearly not a security investment problem. It is a configuration problem. Organizations are beginning to understand that…
