Italian National Research Council Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating new discoveries across industries, from video production to medicine — and now, it’s expanding what we know about antiquity. On Tuesday, researchers at the University of Pisa in Italy announced that they have successfully used AI to decipher a papyrus scroll found in Herculaneum, a town near […]
After failing to achieve “expected results,” Sweden’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) is facing a range of reforms, including being brought under the control of the country’s cyber and signals intelligence agency. The failures were assessed as part of a government review, rather than in response to a single incident, but come amid a changing […]
Apr 23, 2024NewsroomCounterintelligence / National Security German authorities said they have issued arrest warrants against three citizens on suspicion of spying for China. The full names of the defendants were not disclosed by the Office of the Federal Prosecutor (aka Generalbundesanwalt), but it includes Herwig F., Ina F., and Thomas R. “The suspects are strongly […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) issued a cybersecurity information sheet (CIS) on Monday to share best practices for deploying secure and resilient AI systems. The guidance marks the first release from the NSA’s Artificial Intelligence Security Center (AISC), which the agency stood up last year to promote the secure development, integration, and adoption of AI […]
Trust in cybersecurity tools has become one of the biggest challenges facing critical national infrastructure (CNI) providers as sophisticated nation-state attacks proliferate, according to a new report from Bridewell. The IT services firm’s latest Cyber Security in Critical National Infrastructure report is based on interviews with over 1000 CISOs and equivalent at CNI providers in […]
The U.S. Justice Department charged Moldovan national Alexander Lefterov, the owner and operator of a large-scale botnet that infected thousands of computers across the United States.
Voices in the vulnerability management community warned that the lasting issues of the US National Vulnerability Database (NVD) could lead to a major supply chain security crisis. A group of 50 cybersecurity professionals signed an open letter that was sent on April 12 to the US Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, and several members of […]
Mar 14, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Cyber Crime A 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail in Canada for his participation in the LockBit global ransomware operation. Mikhail Vasiliev, an Ontario resident, was originally arrested in November 2022 and charged by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) with “conspiring with others to […]
Two years ago, the Irish government fixed a vulnerability in its national COVID-19 vaccination portal that exposed the vaccination records of around a million residents. But details of the vulnerability weren’t revealed until this week after attempts to coordinate public disclosure with the government agency stalled and ended. Security researcher Aaron Costello said he discovered […]