<p>Haugh’s firing has seemingly caught senior lawmakers by surprise</p>

<p>OpenAI just co-led a $43 million Series A into deepfake defense startup Adaptive Security.</p>

<p>Ted Schlein&#8217;s cybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is raising $100 million for a new fund, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.</p>

<p>A simple trick can remove malicious Android spyware apps that require a password to uninstall. </p>

<p>A new security fund aims to help apps in the fediverse — like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed — to pay researchers for disclosing security bugs. </p>

<p>Michael Waltz used his personal Gmail to share &#8220;potentially exploitable&#8221; information, per the report.</p>

<p>The open source repository of genetic data will delete its banks of data on April 30, its co-founder confirms.</p>

<p>An obscure wannabe hacker&#8217;s tantalizing (and clearly sketchy) job offer has some security researchers asking, why?</p>

<p>Oracle has denied at least one breach, despite evidence to the contrary, as it begins notifying healthcare customers of a separate patient data breach.</p>

<p>The API testing firm took down a database exposed to the internet without a password.</p>

<p>Last weekend, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, found himself at the center of a digital fiasco when he was unexpectedly added to a Signal group chat with 17 U.S. government officials who were discussing imminent airstrikes in Yemen. For some, the incident has raised questions about how phone numbers end up in contact lists [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Despite the stealthy nature of spyware, security researchers keep detecting Pegasus spyware attacks in part because of sloppy &#8216;operational security.&#8217;</p>

<p>The bug fix comes days after Google fixed a similar vulnerability under attack in its Chrome browser.</p>

<p>The encrypted messaging app Signal is getting some unexpected attention this week. High-ranking officials in the Trump administration, including Vice President J. D. Vance and Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, communicated the plans for an attack on the Yemeni Houthis via a potentially unauthorized group chat on Signal. However, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly [&hellip;]</p>

<p>NHS vendor Advanced will pay just over £3 million ($3.8 million) in fines for not implementing basic security measures before it suffered a ransomware attack in 2022, the U.K.&#8217;s data protection regulator has confirmed.&nbsp; It&#8217;s half the fine that the Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office (ICO) had initially sought in August 2024, when the data watchdog said [&hellip;]</p>

<p>One academic who reviewed the dataset said it was &#8220;clear evidence&#8221; that China, or its affiliates, wants to use AI to improve repression.</p>

<p>The proliferation of scarily realistic deepfakes is one of the more pernicious by-products of the rise of AI, and falling victim to scams based on these deepfakes is already costing companies millions of dollars &#8212; not to mention the implications these could have on national security. A startup that&#8217;s built a toolset aimed at governments [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Kaspersky attributed the hacks to an espionage campaign targeting journalists and employees at educational institutions.</p>

<p>This is a guide on how to check whether someone compromised your online accounts.</p>

<p>As 23andMe&#8217;s bankruptcy looms, privacy experts warn customers to delete their DNA data.</p>