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A notice to House offices Monday from the chamber’s chief administrative officer said that staffers are forbidden from having WhatsApp on official devices starting next week, prompting a rebuttal from the app’s parent company Meta.

Google Cloud has donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation, which has now announced a new community-driven project called the Agent2Agent Project.

What happens in the privacy of your own home stays there. Or does it?

SonicWall is warning customers that threat actors are distributing a trojanized version of its NetExtender SSL VPN client used to steal VPN credentials.

U.S. Embassy mandates social media to be public for F, M, and J visa applicants to ensure identity verification.

The U.S. House banned WhatsApp on official devices over security concerns, citing risks flagged by the Chief Administrative Officer.

Microsoft has released the June 2025 non-security preview update for Windows 10, version 22H2, with fixes for bugs preventing the Start Menu from launching and breaking scanning features on USB multi-function printers.

The leaks to the dark web contain information “about the entire population” of Paraguay, researchers said, and likely originated with malware that infected a government employee device.

Trezor is alerting users about a phishing campaign that abuses its automated support system to send deceptive emails from its official platform.

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Microsoft says Windows 10 home users who want to delay switching to Windows 11 can enroll in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program using Microsoft Rewards points.

Microsoft is rolling out a configuration update designed to address a known issue causing Windows Update to fail on some Windows 11 systems.

A representative of NCSC-FI shared some lessons learned from a 2024 data breach affecting the Finnish capital

A long-running malware campaign targeting WordPress via a rogue plugin has been observed skimming data, stealing credentials and user profiling

Amid an uneasy truce, security teams in the U.S. said they have not seen any credible or specific threats.

Experts told CyberScoop the research 'doesn’t pass a sniff test' and detracts from needed conversations around credential abuse and information stealers.

Data breach at McLaren Health Care affecting over 743,000 individuals has been linked to a ransomware attack

Despite a decline in both premiums and prices, the market continues to be profitable.

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Hackers are increasingly performing extortion-only attacks.

Hackers target Microsoft Exchange servers worldwide, injecting keyloggers to steal credentials from victims in 26 countries.

Cryptominer campaigns disrupted using bad shares and XMRogue tool, reducing attackers' annual revenue by 76%

Four convicted members of the REvil cybercrime gang were released from custody after being sentenced in St. Petersburg for offenses related to payment card fraud.

The U.S. House of Representatives has banned the installation and use of WhatsApp on government-issued devices belonging to congressional staff, citing concerns over how the app encrypts and secures data.

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Cobalt found that many security professionals believe a “strategic pause” in genAI deployment is necessary to recalibrate defenses

Scientists can manipulate air bubbles trapped in ice to encode messages.

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