Backchaining Loss of Control Mitigations from Mission-Specific Benchmarks in National Security

Affordances and permissions are promising and timely safety levers for mitigating Loss of Control LoC threats in high-stakes deployment contexts, such as national security. Deployers in defense and intelligence could rely on several approaches to identify which affordances and permissions should ...

Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors

Plus: The NSA tests Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities, a Finnish teen is charged over the Scattered Spider hacking spree, and more...

GRASSMARLIN 代码问题漏洞

GRASSMARLIN is an open-source network security posture awareness tool for industrial control systems developed by the NSA Cybersecurity Directorate. Version GRASSMARLIN v3.2.1 contains a code vulnerability. This vulnerability stems from insufficient hardening of the XML parsing process, which may...

PT-2026-34832

Critical vulnerability in Anthropic Mythos and reported NSA adoption CVE-2026-21841 https://t.co/ZwHNBc0RF8 machinelearning ai...

Hong Kong Police Can Force You to Reveal Your Encryption Keys

According to a new law, the Hong Kong police can demand that you reveal the encryption keys protecting your computer, phone, hard drives, etc.--even if you are just transiting the airport. In a security alert dated March 26, the U.S. Consulate General said that, on March 23, 2026, Hong Kong...

The threat to critical infrastructure has changed. Has your readiness?

Critical infrastructure CI organizations underpin national security, public safety, and the economy. In 2026, the cyber threat landscape facing these sectors is structurally different than it was even two years ago. What Microsoft Threat Intelligence is observing across critical infrastructure...

Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying

US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance...

US Bans New Foreign-Made Home Routers Over National Security Fears

The FCC has officially added foreign-made consumer routers to its restricted Covered List, citing major cybersecurity risks. Find out what it means for your current devices...

Sen. Wyden Warns of Another Section 702 Abuse

Sen. Ron Wyden is warning us of an abuse of Section 702: Wyden took to the Senate floor to deliver a lengthy speech, ostensibly about the since approved with support of many Democrats nomination of Joshua Rudd to lead the NSA. Wyden was protesting that nomination, but in the context of Rudd being...

Pentagon ditches Anthropic AI over “security risk” and OpenAI takes over

On Friday the US Pentagon cut ties with Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated the San Francisco-based company a "supply-chain risk to national security." The supply-chain risk designation means that no contractor, supplier, or partner doing business wi...

Manual Processes Are Putting National Security at Risk

Why automating sensitive data transfers is now a mission-critical priority More than half of national security organizations still rely on manual processes to transfer sensitive data, according to The CYBER360: Defending the Digital Battlespace report. This should alarm every defense and governme...

TikTok narrowly avoids a US ban by spinning up a new American joint venture

TikTok may have found a way to stay online in the US. The company announced late last week that it has set up a joint venture backed largely by US investors. TikTok announced T ikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC on Friday in a deal valued at about $14 billion , allowing it to continue operating in the...

FCC Bans Foreign-Made Drones and Key Parts Over U.S. National Security Risks

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC on Monday announced a ban on all drones and critical components made in a foreign country, citing national security concerns. To that end, the agency has added to its Covered List Uncrewed aircraft systems UAS and UAS critical components produced in ...

Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review

The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation's ability and willingness to address a broad spectrum of technology challenges, from cybersecurity and privacy to countering disinformation, fraud and corruption. These shift...

CVE-2025-62558

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2025-12-09 17:29:16+00:00| seen| https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2025/12/9/the-december-2025-security-update-review 2025-12-09 17:40:33+00:00| seen| https://advisories.ncsc.nl/advisory?id=NCSC-2025-0384 2025-12-10 13:35:05+00:00| seen|...

Framing the Hacker: Media Representations and Public Discourse in Germany

This paper examines how the figure of the hacker is portrayed in German mainstream media and explores the impact of media framing on public discourse. Through a longitudinal content analysis of 301 articles from four of the most widely circulated German newspapers Die Zeit, S�ddeutsche Zeitung,...

CVE-2025-60716

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2025-11-11 17:29:38+00:00| seen| https://advisories.ncsc.nl/advisory?id=NCSC-2025-0358 2025-11-11 17:30:42+00:00| seen| https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2025/11/11/the-november-2025-security-update-review 2025-11-11 22:02:16+00:00| seen|...

Who Coordinates U.S. Cyber Defense? A Co-Authorship Network Analysis of Joint Cybersecurity Advisories (2024--2025)

Cyber threats increasingly demand joint responses, yet the organizational dynamics behind multi-agency cybersecurity collaboration remain poorly understood. Understanding who leads, who bridges, and how agencies coordinate is critical for strengthening both U.S. homeland security and allied defen...

MSS Claims NSA Used 42 Cyber Tools in Multi-Stage Attack on Beijing Time Systems

China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency NSA of carrying out a "premeditated" cyber attack targeting the National Time Service Center NTSC, as it described the U.S. as a "hacker empire" and the "greatest source of chaos in cyberspace." The Ministry of State Security MSS, in a...

CVE-2025-55688

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2025-10-14 16:03:45+00:00| seen| https://advisories.ncsc.nl/advisory?id=NCSC-2025-0310 2025-10-14 16:38:44+00:00| seen| https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2025/10/14/the-october-2025-security-update-review 2025-10-24 06:24:42+00:00| seen|...