US Cyber Command reportedly pauses cyberattacks on Russia
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered US Cyber Command to pause offensive operations against Russia, as the USA's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has denied any change in its posture. The order, first reported by The Record and since confirmed by The New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets. Cyber Command is one of eleven Unified combatant commands, orgs that combine personnel from multiple departments of the US military. READ MORE...
Indian Stock Broker Angel One Discloses Data Breach
Indian stock brokerage firm Angel One on Friday disclosed a data breach impacting client information stored in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. The incident, the company said, was discovered after it received an email alert from a 'dark web monitoring partner' on February 27, regarding a 'data leakage post'. "After analyzing the post, it was ascertained that some of Angel One's AWS resources were compromised," the company said. READ MORE...
Employment screening provider data breach affects 3.3M people
A data breach at DISA Global Solutions, Inc., a third-party employment screening services provider, affected more than 3.3 million people, the company said. The company, which provides drug and alcohol testing and background checks, said it discovered on April 22, 2024, that it was the victim of cyber attack that gave "an unauthorized third party" access to individuals' personal information from Feb. 9, 2024, to April 22, 2024, the company said in a notice on its website. READ MORE...
Microsoft Busts Hackers Selling Illegal Azure AI Access
Adversaries like the group being tracked as Storm-2139 are already finding ways to bend and break guardrails around generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) services, and Microsoft is pushing back with a name-and-shame campaign intended to break up their little cybercrime party. Microsoft's digital crimes unit named four men who were selling unauthorized access to Azure AI services along with step-by-step instructions for generating titillating images of celebrities and others. READ MORE...
Serbian student's Android phone compromised by exploit from Cellebrite
Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit vendor Cellebrite was used to compromise the phone of a Serbian student who had been critical of that country's government. The human rights organization first called out Serbian authorities in December for what it said was its "pervasive and routine use of spyware" as part of a campaign of "wider state control and repression directed against civil society." READ MORE...
Quantum Wars: Google, Microsoft, and Amazon's Competing Paths to Fault-Tolerant Qubits
Following Google's Willow in December 2024, we now have two additional new quantum chips announced in the final week of February 2025: Microsoft's Majorana 1, and now Amazon's Ocelot. "AWS researchers," claims Amazon, "have, for the first time, combined cat qubit technology and additional quantum error correction components onto a microchip that can be manufactured in a scalable fashion using processes borrowed from the microelectronics industry." READ MORE...
Critical infrastructure at state, local levels at heightened risk of cyberattacks
State and local communities are facing a rise in cyber threats from nation-state-linked and criminal threat groups, which in many cases are looking to undermine confidence in public institutions, according to a report by the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Much of the nation's critical infrastructure is owned and operated at the state or local level, which underscores the need to develop more resilient systems, share threat intelligence, and prepare for incident response. READ MORE...
- ...in 1845, Congress overrides presidential veto for first time with a two-thirds majority vote, forcing President John Tyler to get Congressional approval to build new ships.
- ...in 1923, the first issue of TIME magazine is published. The first cover subject is then-Speaker of the US House of Representatives Joseph Cannon.
- ...in 1931, President Herbert Hoover signs a congressional act making "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official national anthem of the United States.
- ...in 1959, radio host and producer Ira Glass ("This American Life") is born in Baltimore, MD.
