DeepSeek hit with ‘large-scale’ cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
Attack forces Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations as app becomes highest rated free app in US
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U.S. Coast Guard Issues Landmark Cybersecurity Rule to Protect Maritime Infrastructure
The U.S. Coast Guard issued a final rule on January 17 establishing minimum cybersecurity requirements for U.S.-flagged vessels and other regulated facilities. The landmark rule aims to strengthen the…
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Modernizing trust: How UADY transformed campus security with Sophos
At the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY), technology has long been central to supporting academic excellence. As the university expanded to serve more than 20,000 students across five campuses, its IT team faced increasing pressure on an aging cybersecurity infrastructure. Manual patching, limited firmware support, and rising costs made it harder to defend against evolving…
Viral Audio of JD Vance Badmouthing Elon Musk Is Fake, Just the Tip of the AI Iceberg
Over the weekend, AI-generated audio of vice president JD Vance saying Elon Musk is “cosplaying as a great American leader” who is making the administration “look bad” circulated widely on social media. On Sunday, Vance’s communications director William Martin said on X that “This audio is 100% fake and most certainly not the Vice President.”…
Hacker Conference HOPE Says U.S. Immigration Crackdown Caused Massive Crash in Ticket Sales
Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE), the iconic and long-running hacking conference, says far fewer people have bought tickets for the event this year as compared to last, with organizers believing it is due to the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts and more aggressive detainment of travellers into the U.S. “We are roughly 50 percent behind…
2025 Informed: Cybersecurity – critical infrastructure becomes prime target
State-sponsored cyber warfare and its threat to critical infrastructure, zero-trust models, platform consolidation and quantum safety will be key topics for the year ahead
EVSC provides update on data breach while investigation continues
At this time, the investigation into the incident is still ongoing.
Elon Musk’s Waste.gov Is Just a WordPress Theme Placeholder Page
A government website created by the Trump administration to “track government waste” has been left unupdated with a default WordPress sample page that includes language about an imaginary architecture firm. “Waste.gov: Tracking government waste,” the tagline for the website, archived here, says. The rest of the webpage, however, is about an imaginary architecture firm called…
‘Proud moment’: Acting defense secretary grew up in RI, son of a retired Marine general
It’s been a proud couple of days for Warren’s John J. Salesses, father of the acting secretary of defense, Robert G. Salesses.