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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns that hackers are now using social engineering tactics to target IT help desks across the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. [...]

Chance of AI-Generated Content Affecting Results Appears to Remain Low - for NowChina-backed attackers are continuing to refine their use of content generated using artificial intelligence tools, including audio deepfakes and video news anchors, to sow disruption and influence elections in the U.S., Taiwan, India and beyond, security researchers at Microsoft warn.

Acuity, a federal contractor that works with U.S. government agencies, has confirmed that hackers breached its GitHub repositories and stole documents containing old and non-sensitive data. [...]

Improving security in the applications that drive the digital economy is a necessary undertaking, requiring ongoing collaboration between the public and private sectors.

Latest Exfiltration and Hacking Incidents Highlight Health Sector Cyber ChallengesWhat do a California cancer research center; an Indiana ear, nose and throat practice; an Oklahoma ambulance company; and a New York billing firm all have in common? They're among the latest firms to report data exfiltration breaches, which have affected millions of U.S. patients so far this year.

Energy Department Invests in Next Generation of Cyber Talent to Find New SolutionsThe Energy Department is hoping to catalyze next-generation solutions to cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the energy sector by funding the creation of university-based cyber energy centers nationwide that will bring together private sector partners and the future of U.S. cyber talent.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has released a scathing report on how Microsoft handled its 2023 Exchange Online attack, warning that the company needs to do better at securing data and be more truthful about how threat actors stole an Azure signing key. [...]

Is there no cure for this cyber-plague? Nearly one million individuals' personal details, financial account information, and medical records may have been stolen from City of Hope systems in the United States.…

Notorious Hacker Alleges They Stole Data From National Security ContractorThe U.S. Department of State confirmed it’s investigating claims of a cyber incident after a notorious hacker known as IntelBroker posted on a publicly accessible hacking forum that they had leaked data belonging to the federal government and its allies.

Nations to Jointly Develop Evaluation Mechanisms and Risk Mitigation GuidesThe United States and the United Kingdom signed a landmark artificial intelligence agreement on Monday to work together to develop tests for the most advanced AI models and share research capabilities. The countries also committed to developing similar partnerships with other nations.

Differences in How the United States and United Kingdom Think About CybersecurityThe differences between working in cybersecurity in the U.K. and U.S. are not just a matter of accent or office culture; they are a study in how national security priorities, regulatory environments and cultural attitudes toward privacy and surveillance affect cyber workers' professional lives.

The U.S. Department of State is investigating claims of a cyber incident after a threat actor leaked documents allegedly stolen from a government contractor. [...]

The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has criticized Microsoft for a series of security lapses that led to the breach of nearly two dozen companies across Europe and the U.S. by a China-based nation-state group called Storm-0558 last year

The banking trojan known as Mispadu has expanded its focus beyond Latin America (LATAM) and Spanish-speaking individuals to target users in Italy, Poland, and Sweden

Hack Targeting Top Government Officials ‘Was Preventable,’ Scathing Report SaysThe independent Cyber Safety Review Board published a scathing report that recommended an overhaul of Microsoft’s security infrastructure and said the tech giant’s operational and strategic decisions led to the successful Chinese hacking campaign targeting top U.S. government officials.

And Diameter, too, for good measure The FCC appears to finally be stepping up efforts to secure decades-old flaws in American telephone networks that are allegedly being used by foreign governments and surveillance outfits to remotely spy on and monitor wireless devices.…

Proposed Class Action in Cyberattack Has Faced Many Legal Ups and Downs Since 2015A federal judge has ruled to certify a "contract class" of more than 1 million CareFirst customers in a class action lawsuit claiming that the health insurer breached its contractual obligations to safeguard their data, which was accessed by hackers in a 2014 cyberattack.

Federal Communications Commission Responds to Persistent Surveillance ProblemsHow are U.S. telecommunications firms combating illicit location tracking being used by bad actors at home and abroad against their subscribers? That's the focus of a new call for comment from the Federal Communications Commission, which wants to know whether or not existing defenses are working.

Google has agreed to delete billions of data records collected from 136 million Chrome users in the United States, as part of a lawsuit settlement regarding alleged undisclosed browser data collection while in Incognito mode. [...]

U.S. and Chinese Leaders Discuss Global Security Issues in Wide-Ranging CallU.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a bilateral phone call Tuesday to discuss a range of security issues including threats associated with advanced technologies. Biden was expected to discuss stopping U.S. technologies from being used to undermine U.S. national security.