Jen Easterly, Director of CISA, to step down January 2025

Easterly was a role model for women in cybersecurity and strengthened government cyber defenses

Defense Department wants to hire Silicon Valley Tech Execs

The DOD has a bold new plan to strengthen its tech ranks: recruit and commission Silicon Valley executives and experts as Reserve Officers

North Korea is funding its nuclear program with cyber espionage and LinkedIn hiring scams

Hackers from North Korea have stolen over $600 million from cryptocurrency exchanges, and deployed ransomware to steal nuclear and energy research from defense and military agencies

American Water Company hit with cyberattack

American Water Company first detected the cyberattack on October 3 and thus far, has only detected a loss of billing systems data

Open-Source Software Security Risks: What You Need to Know

Open-source software is critical for modern technology but presents unique cybersecurity challenges, particularly with supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities in codebases, requiring robust management and mitigation strategies.

Black Hat 2024: Researcher exposes Microsoft Copilot AI vulnerabilities

Microsoft Copilot can be exploited for automated spear-phishing attacks, cite phantom sources, expose communications, and data poisoning

Microsoft Report: Iranian Cyber Operations Targeting U.S. Presidential Election

A new report from the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center reveals extensive Iranian disinformation campaigns attempting to influence the 2024 United States Presidential Election

New Cybersecurity Unicorn: Chainguard Raises $140M at $1.12B Valuation

Chainguard, specializing in securing container images, open source software and AI workloads is now worth $1.12 billion

Wiz Turns Down $23 Billion Acquisition Offer from Google: Pursuing IPO Instead

Wiz rejects lucrative acquisition by Google, citing ambitions for an IPO and $1 billion annual revenue target

Google in talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz

The acquisition would be Google’s largest ever at $23 billion