Cybersecurity

FTC joins global data security and privacy investigative consortium

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday that it will participate in an “international multilateral arrangement” to lend intelligence and assist privacy investigators worldwide. The Global Cooperation Arrangement for Privacy Enforcement (Global CAPE), the nonbinding consortium the FTC is joining, will also help the FTC better monitor global commerce in real time, the agency said […]

Cybersecurity

QNAP Patches High-Severity Flaws in QTS, Video Station, QuMagie, Netatalk Products

Taiwan-based QNAP Systems on Friday announced patches for a dozen vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including high-severity flaws in its operating system. The first of the high-severity issues is CVE-2023-39296, which is described as a prototype pollution flaw that could allow remote attackers “to override existing attributes with ones that have an incompatible type, which […]

Cybersecurity

DOE Announces Up to $70 Million to Strengthen Energy Sector Against Physical and Cyber Hazards

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $70 million in funding to support research into technologies designed to increase resilience and reduce risks to energy delivery infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters, and climate-change fueled extreme weather events. This new competitive funding […]