Army Lt. Gen. William Hartman, the acting leader of U.S. Cyber Command and the NSA, will not be nominated to take the job permanently, sources told Recorded Future News.

With scientists now demonstrating that they can decode attempted speech based on the neural data they collect from Brain Computer Interface (BCI) research subjects with implants, patients and advocates say the importance of adequate data protections has grown.

The Scattered Spider cybercriminal operation was able to extort at least $115 million in a three-year spree that also included the breach of a federal court network, U.S. authorities said in unsealing charges against one suspect.

Katherine Sutton most recently served as the chief technology adviser to the commander and director of Pentagon operations at U.S. Cyber Command.

Former local British elected official Oliver Steadman has been charged with blackmail in a case involving attempts to acquire compromising photographs from politicians.

Conor Fitzpatrick, aka BreachForums founder "pompompurin," will spend three years in prison after a court vacated an earlier decision to set him free on supervised release.

A Finnish judge set free Aleksanteri "Julius" Kivimäki, convicted of extorting victims of the Vastaamo psychotherapy center's data breach, as his appeal in the case continues.

King, a leading voice in the Senate on cybersecurity issues, honed in on the thousands of staffers and experts laid off by CISA, saying the agency has lost 30 percent of its staff and most of its seasoned leaders.

“We've admired the problem for too long, and now it's time to do something about it,” National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said about the cybersecurity threat environment.

A former information security professor with more than 25 years in the Ukrainian armed forces, Oleksandr Potii is blunt about Moscow’s capabilities: “We see that Russia’s technical level is high and its potential is strong. We cannot underestimate them."

The DEF CON Franklin project paired volunteer cybersecurity experts with water utilities in four states, hardening their systems against potential nation-state threats. The founders expect that the model can work on a larger scale.

The Click Here podcast talked with DEF CON and Black Hat founder Jeff Moss ahead of this year's events in Las Vegas.

The Senate voted 59-35 to place Republican Party insider Sean Cairncross atop the Office of the National Cyber Director, which plays a pivotal role in dictating policy and bolstering U.S. cybersecurity efforts.

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Beau Bullock // I’ve added in a few modules to MailSniper that will assist in remote attacks against organizations that are hosting an externally facing Exchange server (OWA or EWS). Specifically, […]

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