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DOGE as a National Cyberattack

Schneier on Security

In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. trillion in annual federal payments.

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Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity

Schneier on Security

Without this foundation of verifiable truth, AI systems risk becoming a series of opaque boxes. The next layer up is the file system architecture: the way those binary sequences are organized into structured files and directories that a computer can efficiently access and process.

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LW ROUNDTABLE:  Predictive analytics, full-stack visualization to solidify cyber defenses in 2025

The Last Watchdog

Madhu Shashanka , Chief Data Scientist, Concentric AI Generative AI in 2025 will bring transformative opportunities but heightened cybersecurity risks, including data exposure, AI misuse, and novel threats like prompt injection attacks. Enterprises must secure AI agents, adopt proactive data governance, and deploy AI-based security platforms.

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The Hidden Risk in Enterprise Security: Are Big Firms Too Reliant on the Wrong Providers?

Jane Frankland

Could this mean that large enterprises are actually more at risk than smaller ones? And that creates a problem because hackers don’t rely on textbooks—they exploit human error, outdated processes, and subtle gaps in security architectures that a junior analyst might miss entirely. Let’s dive in. ” The outcome?

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MY TAKE: The CVE program crisis isn’t over — it’s a wake-up call for cybersecurity’s supply chain

The Last Watchdog

The system that underpins vulnerability disclosurethe nervous system of cybersecurity risk managementis showing signs of structural fatigue. The CVE program isnt just a list of numbersits a Rosetta Stone that security teams rely on to identify, prioritize, and communicate risk. New architecture needed? Far from it.

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How Solid Protocol Restores Digital Agency

Schneier on Security

Your personal information is scattered across hundreds of locations: social media companies, IoT companies, government agencies, websites you have accounts on, and data brokers you’ve never heard of. This architecture inverts the current data ownership model. The current state of digital identity is a mess. Unlike Web 2.0

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Sophos details five years of China-linked threat actors’ activity targeting network devices worldwide

Security Affairs

Sophos, with the help of other cybersecurity firms, government, and law enforcement agencies investigated the cyber attacks and attributed them multiple China-linked APT groups, such as Volt Typhoon , APT31 and APT41 / Winnti. The Chinese hackers have also ramped up the use of zero-day vulnerabilities in targeted devices.

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