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Government encompasses public institutions and the systems used to administer services, enforce laws, manage public funds, and protect classified or otherwise sensitive information. Its distinctive assets include identity and benefits records, tax and health data, diplomatic material, election infrastructure, and operational technology supporting utilities or emergency services. Availability and integrity can be as important as confidentiality: outages or altered records may disrupt essential services, public safety, or legal processes.
Security therefore spans citizen-facing portals, internal networks, remote access, contractors, and shared infrastructure, including systems that depend on legacy technology or tightly connected suppliers. Espionage, credential compromise, exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, and disruptive attacks are material risks, though exposure varies by agency and system. Useful controls include strong identity management, network segmentation, encryption, privacy safeguards, prioritized vulnerability management, tested backups, and rehearsed incident response. Procurement rules, records obligations, and sector-specific compliance also shape how agencies collect, retain, share, and investigate data.
The Commerce Department’s expert control decree led to the company shutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide, drawing sharp criticism from researchers and industry analysts. The post Anthropic disables new models after government calls them a national security concern appeared first on CyberScoop.
The US government has ordered Anthropic to block all foreign nationals from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5, forcing the company to suspend both models worldwide. Anthropic is complying but disputes the basis, calling the cited jailbreak narrow and the capability widely available elsewhere. [...]
Anthropic said on Friday it will "abruptly disable" its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all users after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, whether inside or outside the U.S., citing national security concerns
Authority admits mass message to home-schooling families revealed recipients' addresses, prompting ICO report and apology
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered government agencies to patch an actively exploited Ivanti Sentry flaw within three days, as mandated by the newly issued Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04. [...]
The French government revealed that a recent breach of its Tchap encrypted messaging platform affects the accounts of over 73,000 employees in the French public sector. [...]
Fake Recruiting Sites Used for Info GatheringThe Department of Justice and FBI seized 13 websites tied to an alleged Chinese intelligence gathering operation, using fake recruiting firms and deceptive job offers to target current and former U.S. government employees and security clearance holders.
JDY botnet scans SOHO/IoT devices globally to map services and targets, especially US military networks. Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs reported the resurgence of the JDY botnet, a covert reconnaissance network tied to Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups including Volt Typhoon. The network was first spotted in late 2023 as a cluster inside KV-botnet. The U.S. government […]
France’s government chat app Tchap was breached after a single account was compromised, exposing messages and data from public channels. Tchap, the encrypted messaging platform developed by the French government for its civil servants and made mandatory last year, was breached on June 7. ANSSI, France’s cybersecurity agency, detected the intrusion. The vector was straightforward: […]
On Device Controls Spark Privacy, Security ConcernsThe British government is demanding that smartphone giants Apple and Google ensure underage users of iOS and Android devices can no longer take, send or view nude photographs.
Two separate campaigns target CVE-2025-8088, fixed last July, to conduct data theft and cyberespionage against military and government targets in Ukraine.
DINUM, the digital affairs directorate of the French government, warned that hackers used a hijacked user account to breach Tchap, the French government's encrypted messaging platform. [...]
CISA has ordered U.S. government agencies to secure their Check Point Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments against a critical vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks by Qilin ransomware affiliates. [...]
Partnership between policymakers and tech companies, not government oversight, offers the best path forward for responsible AI innovation. The post The AI security race needs accountability, not overregulation appeared first on CyberScoop.
The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology details how a combination of hands-on human advice and technology systems keeps government agencies safe