Election officials Mason Gregory Gilchrist and Dorothy Allen count ballots at the Shasta County Clerk & Registrar of Voters offices on February 23, 2024 in Redding in Northern Califonia’s Shasta County. During “Super Tuesday” primaries, security guards will monitor the back door at one Shasta County polling precinct — a sign of the high political tensions in rural northern California. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) Forget AI: Physical threats are biggest risk facing the 2024 election November’s vote has been called the “AI election,” but officials are most worried about the physical safety of election workers and infrastructure. By Derek B. Johnson
Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President at the Microsoft Corporation, arrives for a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law oversight hearing to examine legislating artificial intelligence (AI), on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 12, 2023. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) House panel leaders call on Microsoft president to testify over security shortcomings Cybersecurity By Tim Starks
The Boeing Company headquarters are shown January 25, 2023 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Boeing confirms attempted $200 million ransomware extortion attempt Cybercrime By AJ Vicens
Top spy official releases principles on intel agency use of info bought from data brokers By Tim Starks
Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images Rethinking democracy for the age of AI We need to recreate our system of governance for an era in which transformative technologies pose catastrophic risks as well as great promise. Feature By Bruce Schneier
A wastewater tank in Orlando, Florida. (Getty Images) Did someone really hack into the Oldsmar, Florida, water treatment plant? New details suggest maybe not. By Christian Vasquez
This photo illustration shows the ChatGPT logo at an office in Washington, DC, on March 15, 2023. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) Coming to DEF CON 31: Hacking AI models By Elias Groll
(Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) When it comes to online scams, ‘ChatGPT is the new crypto’ By AJ Vicens
The pressing threat of Chinese-made drones flying above U.S. critical infrastructure By Brian Harrell Travis Moran
The quantum computing threat is real. Now we need to act. By Susan M. Gordon John Richardson Mike Rogers
Hackers leak huge cache of data from evangelical organization that supported Dobbs decision By AJ Vicens
Misconfiguration leaves thousands of servers vulnerable to attack, researchers find By Christian Vasquez
‘They outsmarted us.’ 3CX CEO acknowledges mistakes handling potential supply chain cyberattack By Christian Vasquez AJ Vicens
Splunk’s Kristi Chiarenza says agencies face time and resource hurdles in zero-trust journey By Scoop News Group
Sandra Joyce speaks on a panel at Google Cloud Next 2024 in Las Vegas. (Scoop News Group photo) Mandiant’s Sandra Joyce on AI for cyber defense and what’s troubling CISOs By CyberScoop Staff
Sayash Kapoor on AI risk; Federal agencies affected by Russian breach of Microsoft By CyberScoop Staff
Sherrod DeGrippo on APT groups experimenting with AI; security pros respond to China hacking warnings By CyberScoop Staff
A pedestrian walks past a seal reading “Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation”, displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building, in Washington, DC, on August 15, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) US, UK authorities unmask Russian national as LockBit administrator
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the press at the port of Ashdod in southern Israel on May 1, 2024. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP via Getty Images) State Department wants ‘digital solidarity’ at center of tech diplomacy
Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on Dec, 16, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Greg Nash/Getty Images) Krebs, Luber added to Cyber Safety Review Board
The White House. (Getty Images) The missed opportunities in White House’s critical infrastructure directive
A Microsoft Experience Center is seen on Fifth Avenue on April 03, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Microsoft organizational changes seek to address security failures
An Iranian flag is carried around the Azadi (Freedom) monument tower during the annual rally commemorating Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran on Feb. 11, 2024. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) Iranian hackers impersonate journalists in social engineering campaign
The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, 2018. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) CISA’s incident reporting requirements go too far, trade groups and lawmakers say
A view of the White House on April 28, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) How to fine-tune the White House’s new critical infrastructure directive
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill on May 1, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) Data stolen in Change Healthcare attack likely included U.S. service members, executive says
A view of the Verizon logo on Feb. 22, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Kena Betancur/VIEWpress) Exploitation of vulnerabilities almost tripled as a source of data breaches last year
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