US cyber agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals

US cyber agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals

U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA said it did not have a prepared response plan for how it should handle a cybersecurity incident in May, after an investigative reporter notified the agency that a contractor had publicly exposed sensitive keys and credentials for accessing U.S. government systems. CISA, the Homeland Security unit tasked with defending federal…

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Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware

Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware

Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an investigatory committee probing abuses of the notorious surveillance tool. This has reigniting fresh controversy over governments abusing spyware to collect information about their critics. The researchers at the University of Toronto’s digital rights unit The…

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Password manager maker LastPass says hackers stole customer support case data during Klue breach

Password manager maker LastPass says hackers stole customer support case data during Klue breach

Password manager maker LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a recent hack at one of its technology partners, marking the company’s latest data breach in recent years. In an email shared with TechCrunch from an affected customer, LastPass said the breach occurred at market research…

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Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.  Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models. So is…

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