https://cyberscoop.com/nso-group-whatsapp-injunction-appeal/
Nov 20, 2025 - The spyware vendor made those two arguments, among others, in a motion to stay the California court ruling.
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https://cyberscoop.com/fcc-cybersecurity-rules-wiretapping-law-salt-typhoon/
Dec 5, 2024 - The proposed rules are a response to Salt Typhoon’s breach of at least eight U.S. telecom companies.
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https://cyberscoop.com/radio/greg-talks-with-matt-kapko-about-a-whirlwind-week-around-clops-targeting-of-oracle/
Oct 9, 2025 - This week on Safe Mode, we talk with Scott Montgomery, VP of Federal at Island, about the realities of achieving FedRAMP authorization
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https://cyberscoop.com/trump-cyber-policy-foreign-hacking-response/
Nov 12, 2025 - U.S. cyber officials have pushed for strong action against foreign hacking, while President Trump has downplayed threats, creating mixed signals on cyber...
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https://cyberscoop.com/house-dems-seek-info-about-ice-spyware-contract-wary-of-potential-abuses/
Oct 6, 2025 - Three House Democrats questioned the Department of Homeland Security on Monday over a reported Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract with a spyware...
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https://cyberscoop.com/gainsight-ceo-downplays-salesforce-attack/
Nov 26, 2025 - Details about the attack are scattered, and discrepancies remain about the number of companies impacted and the extent to which they are compromised.
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https://cyberscoop.com/connor-moucka-snowflake-hacker-extradition-us/
Mar 24, 2025 - Connor Moucka, a 26-year-old arrested at the behest of U.S. authorities in October in Kitchener, Ontario, faces 20 federal charges.
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https://cyberscoop.com/retail-cybersecurity-crisis-nrf-leadership-talent-pipeline-op-ed/
Nov 14, 2025 - Retailers are facing an unprecedented cybersecurity crisis, with giants like Louis Vuitton and Dior losing millions to data breaches. As attacks escalate, the...
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https://cyberscoop.com/government-shutdown-cybersecurity-workforce-cybercorps-scholarship-for-service/
Jan 10, 2019 - The shutdown's effects were on full display for CyberCorps students this week, as multiple agencies had to skip out on an OPM-run job fair.
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https://cyberscoop.com/federal-agencies-ai-cyber-defense-mike-duffy-ciso/
Sep 18, 2025 - Mike Duffy said feds are looking at ways to use it even more for cybersecurity.
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https://cyberscoop.com/video/stay-ahead-of-cyber-threats-with-automated-testing-measures/
Jul 31, 2024 - In an increasingly complex threat landscape, Ironwood Cyber CEO Aaron Estes says automated penetration testing tools can help agencies improve their security...
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https://cyberscoop.com/cyber-industry-mergers-investment-2021/
Feb 9, 2022 - As budgets for cybersecurity services increase, investors continue to pump money into the industry. And innovation by startups is perpetually drawing attention.
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https://cyberscoop.com/author/elias-groll/
Elias Groll was a senior editor at CyberScoop. He previously worked as a reporter and editor at Foreign Policy, covering technology and national security, and...
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https://cyberscoop.com/bulletproof-hosting-providers-sanctions-mitigation-media-land/
Nov 19, 2025 - An international effort sanctioned Russia-based Media Land and took action against companies and people who helped Aeza Group evade previously issued sanctions.
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https://cyberscoop.com/capital-one-hacker-free-trial-paige-thompson/
Nov 5, 2019 - The judge previously admitted concern with the treatment of trans inmates.
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https://cyberscoop.com/ftc-settles-with-illusory-systems-in-2022-cryptocurrency-hack/
Dec 16, 2025 - The company was charged with materially misrepresenting the cybersecurity of its Token Bridge software as executives failed to implement reasonable security.
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https://cyberscoop.com/predator-intellexa-cytrox-sanctions/
Mar 5, 2024 - The Biden administration sanctions individuals and entities behind the commercial surveillance tool implicated in human rights abuses.
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https://cyberscoop.com/fcc-cybersecurity-vote-china-hack-telecoms-anna-gomez/
Nov 20, 2025 - In an interview, the lone dissenting voice on the panel, Commissioner Anna Gomez, told CyberScoop that rescinding the rules would let telecoms off the hook for...
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https://cyberscoop.com/cvss-criticism-cve-nvd-nist-epss/
Mar 20, 2025 - The Common Vulnerability Scoring System has a lot of critics, but experts say it’s still the best unified way to share the severity of cybersecurity flaws.
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https://cyberscoop.com/nefilim-ransomware-artem-stryzhak-guilty-plea/
Dec 19, 2025 - The 35-year-old faces up to 10 years in jail and authorities announced an $11 million reward for information on his alleged co-conspirator who remains at large.
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https://cyberscoop.com/radio/how-full-content-inspection-offers-a-new-era-of-real-time-cybersecurity/
Jul 8, 2025 - Trinity Cyber’s Mike Denning breaks down how Full Content Inspection shifts cyber defense from endless alerts to automated, in-line threat disruption.
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https://cyberscoop.com/baron-cain-martin-764-leader-arrested-charged/
Oct 31, 2025 - Baron Cain Martin, a 21-year-old, allegedly joined the nihilistic violent extremist group in 2019. Officials described his alleged crimes as “atrocious”...
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https://cyberscoop.com/will-hurd-cybersecurity-issues/
Aug 2, 2019 - The Texas Republican has advocated strong encryption and higher standards for connected devices.
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https://cyberscoop.com/author/joe-sangiuliano/
Joe Sangiuliano is Regional Vice President-Public Sector, Prisma Cloud, Palo Alto Networks.
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https://cyberscoop.com/russians-crypto-mixers-doj-charges/
Jan 10, 2025 - The DOJ said the men behind Blender.io and Sinbad.io “made it easier for state-sponsored hacking groups” to profit off their crimes.
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https://cyberscoop.com/application-attack-matrix-oligo-security/
Jul 8, 2025 - Application Attack Matrix is a community effort designed to help defenders and organizations better understand and define how attackers use and exploit...
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https://cyberscoop.com/bugcrowd-mayhem-security-acquistion-ai-security-testing/
Nov 4, 2025 - Bugcrowd, a company known for its work in bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure, has announced the acquisition of Mayhem Security, an AI-driven offensive...
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https://cyberscoop.com/akira-ransomware-fbi-cisa-joint-advisory/
Nov 13, 2025 - Officials shared indicators of compromise observed as recently as this month to help organizations hunt for and defend against the ransomware group, which has...
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https://cyberscoop.com/goanywhere-vulnerability-active-exploitation-september-2025/
Sep 26, 2025 - Forta, the vendor behind the file-transfer service software, has yet to report exploitation or address evidence of compromise. Independent researchers say...
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https://cyberscoop.com/online-cybersecurity-law-course-penn-state-nsa/
Aug 27, 2019 - Anyone who is interested in cybersecurity law and policy can now take an online course that was partly shaped by National Security Agency.
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https://cyberscoop.com/radio/cooper-argues-that-community-storytelling-and-grassroots-engagement-are-essential-tools-for-prompting-government-action-and-ensuring-critical-local-services-are-protected/
Oct 30, 2025 - Betsy Cooper, founding director of the Aspen Institute’s Policy Academy, details a new initiative designed to mobilize ordinary citizens as cybersecurity...
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https://cyberscoop.com/video/how-niwc-atlantic-is-approaching-zero-trust-trusted-user-policies/
Feb 17, 2023 - Naval Information Warfare Center’s Justin Hodges says modernizing data storage, retention and collection, in addition to expanding access to trusted users is...
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https://www.reversinglabs.com/news/cyberscoop-the-dual-reality-of-ai-augmented-development-innovation-and-risk
AI coding is a big security problem when most security teams are still relying on tools designed for a world where human-written code remains prevalent.
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https://cyberscoop.com/tariffs-could-slow-replacement-of-telecom-networks/
Apr 30, 2025 - The remarks came at a House subcommittee hearing where the Salt Typhoon breaches were fresh on lawmakers’ minds.
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https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-election-security-review-lacks-transparency/?ref=readtangle.com
Mar 10, 2025 - Critics said the decision creates broad uncertainty among other stakeholders who work to protect elections.
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https://cyberscoop.com/take-it-down-act-passes-house-first-amendment-encryption/
Apr 29, 2025 - The Take It Down Act received rare levels of bipartisan support in the House and Senate, but critics fear enforcement could threaten First Amendment...
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https://cyberscoop.com/inside-polands-groundbreaking-effort-to-reckon-with-spyware-abuses/
May 15, 2024 - Poland was once a “dark spot” on spyware abuse, but a probe, victim notifications and more has made it a potential model for other nations.
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https://cyberscoop.com/author/alison-king/
Alison King is the vice president of government affairs at Forescout Technologies and an OT Cyber Coalition executive member. Previously, she was a staff...
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https://cyberscoop.com/ai-powered-cyber-attacks-claude-jailbreak-chinese-hackers/
Dec 23, 2025 - Anthropic says Chinese hackers jailbroke Claude to speed cyberespionage—highlighting how AI can automate attack chains and why defenders and policymakers are...
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https://cyberscoop.com/commerce-department-blacklists-spyware-companies/
Jul 18, 2023 - The actions are the first major initiative on spyware since Biden issued an executive order restricting on government use of surveillance software.
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https://cyberscoop.com/voting-rights-groups-seek-emergency-halt-save-database-trump-administration/
Oct 8, 2025 - In a court filing, the groups argued court action was needed to prevent permanent privacy harm from the government’s “illegal and secretive consolidation...
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https://cyberscoop.com/ransomware-alphv-healthcare-pharmacies/
Feb 28, 2024 - The group known as ALPHV said it was behind an attack that has disrupted a service used by healthcare providers to process payments.
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https://cyberscoop.com/author/scoop-news-group/
Scoop News Group is the parent company and publisher of CyberScoop. “Sponsored content” from Scoop News Group is original content produced by SNG...
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https://cyberscoop.com/ai-ransomware-promptlock-nyu-behind-code-discovered-by-security-researchers/
Sep 5, 2025 - Researchers at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering confirmed they created PromptLock to illustrate potential harms of AI-powered malware.
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https://cyberscoop.com/news/technology/
CyberScoop's Technology section covers private sector cybersecurity and the companies pushing security to the cutting edge.
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https://cyberscoop.com/radio/cisa-2015-lapse-kevin-hanes-ceo-reveal-security-machine-identities/
Aug 28, 2025 - Greg talks with Kevin Hanes, CEO of Reveal Security, exploring the critical and often overlooked world of machine identity security
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https://cyberscoop.com/doj-sues-fulton-county-georgia-over-2020-voter-data/
Dec 12, 2025 - Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is running for governor next year, has long maintained that the state’s 2020 and 2024 election results...
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https://cyberscoop.com/virtru-series-d-50-million-trusted-data-format/
Jul 11, 2025 - Virtru, a data security company that developed technology now used by U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, has raised $50 million in funding.
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https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-gets-new-no-2-madhu-gottumukkala/
Apr 25, 2025 - He served under then-South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who now heads up the Department of Homeland Security.
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https://cyberscoop.com/michigan-e-note-crypto-exchange-takedown-ransomware-money-laundering-indictment/
Dec 17, 2025 - Federal prosecutors say they dismantled E-Note’s online infrastructure and indicted its alleged operator, after the FBI traced more than $70 million in...
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https://cyberscoop.com/video/cloudflares-anish-patel-on-governments-path-to-zero-trust/
Mar 3, 2025 - Anish Patel | Federal Director of Sales | Cloudflare
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https://cyberscoop.com/exclusive-china-6g-letter-krishnamoorthi-congress-state-commerce-letters/
Nov 5, 2025 - In an exclusive, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., told CyberScoop that policymakers must learn from past mistakes around 5G.
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https://cyberscoop.com/house-gop-leaders-seek-government-probe-restrictions-on-chinese-made-tech/
Nov 5, 2025 - They cited past cyberattacks from Beijing as evidence of the threats posed by Chinese tech in areas like AI or energy generation.
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https://cyberscoop.com/ntia-cybersecurity-salt-typhoon-telecoms-house-bill/
Jul 15, 2025 - The bipartisan legislation would codify the agency’s position as the one in charge of coordinating responses to incidents like the breach on U.S. telecoms.
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https://cyberscoop.com/fbi-warns-of-ai-deepfake-phishing-impersonating-government-officials/
May 15, 2025 - The FB has warned of a new AI deepfake phishing campaign where attackers impersonate senior government officials using texts and voice messages to steal...
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https://cyberscoop.com/ai-deepfakes-causing-big-problems-in-the-legal-sector-aba-report/
Dec 15, 2025 - While many in the legal community report positive use cases for the tech, AI-driven disinformation and deepfakes are causing havoc in courtrooms.
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https://cyberscoop.com/video/microsofts-ian-leatherman-on-how-ai-boosts-government-zero-trust-efforts/
Feb 27, 2025 - Ian Leatherman | Zero Trust Strategist, Security Solutions Group | Microsoft
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https://cyberscoop.com/servicenow-armis-acquisition-ai-cybersecurity/
Dec 23, 2025 - ServiceNow has agreed to buy cybersecurity firm Armis for $7.75 billion in cash, combining ServiceNow’s workflow and risk products with Armis’ asset...
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https://cyberscoop.com/author/matt-bracken/
Matt Bracken is editor in chief of FedScoop and the former managing editor of CyberScoop. Before joining Scoop News Group in 2023, Matt worked in various...
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https://cyberscoop.com/cve-program-funding-crisis-cve-foundation-mitre/
May 14, 2025 - The CVE program narrowly avoided shutdown after a funding crisis, prompting calls for alternative models and renewed debate about the future of global...
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https://cyberscoop.com/russian-apt28-cyberattacks-target-western-logistics-ukraine/
May 21, 2025 - APT28, a Russian state-linked hacking group, is targeting Western logistics and tech firms supporting Ukraine.
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https://cyberscoop.com/paige-thompson-capital-one-detention-hearing/
Oct 16, 2019 - Prosecutors say Paige Thompson is a “serious flight risk” in part because of the amount of evidence against her. The judge in the case says he might...
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https://cyberscoop.com/us-copyright-office-ai-report-firing-fair-use-debate/
May 13, 2025 - The register of copyrights cast serious doubt on whether AI companies could legally train their models on copyrighted material. The White House fired her the...
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https://cyberscoop.com/big-bear-ai-ask-sage-acquisition-agentic-ai/
Nov 11, 2025 - Virginia-based BigBear.ai announced Monday it will acquire Ask Sage, a generative artificial intelligence platform specializing in secure deployment of AI...
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https://cyberscoop.com/meeting-zero-trust-mandates-with-strategic-partnerships/
Feb 20, 2024 - A new report dives into how government agencies can meet the zero-trust security mandate with strategic partnerships and innovative technologies.
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https://cyberscoop.com/author/matt-kapko/
Matt Kapko is a reporter at CyberScoop. His beat includes cybercrime, ransomware, software defects and vulnerability (mis)management. The lifelong Californian...
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https://cyberscoop.com/biden-nspm-13-pentagon-cyber-operations/
Nov 18, 2022 - The State Department fought hard to win back the cyber authorities that it lost under the Trump administration but did not prevail.
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https://cyberscoop.com/nist-privacy-framework/
Nov 12, 2018 - NIST's forthcoming Privacy Framework could help pave the way toward the development of trustworthy information systems.
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https://cyberscoop.com/veeam-securiti-ai-acquisition/
Oct 21, 2025 - Veeam announced Tuesday it agreed to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion, marking the data protection company's largest acquisition and its entry into...
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https://cyberscoop.com/author/andrew-garbarino/
Rep. Andrew Garbarino has represented New York’s Second Congressional District in Congress since 2021. He serves as chairman of the House Homeland Security...
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https://cyberscoop.com/with-each-cloud-outage-calls-for-government-action-grow-louder/
Nov 6, 2025 - Public interest groups want the feds to investigate the systemic risk from market consolidation, while tech and security experts worry about single points of...
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https://cyberscoop.com/prompt-lock-eset-ransomware-research-ai-powered-prompt-injection/
Aug 26, 2025 - The malware, called PromptLock, essentially functions as a hard-coded prompt injection attack on a large language model, inspecting local filesystems,...
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https://cyberscoop.com/mandatory-insider-threat-detection-program-will-help-booz-allen-hurt-startups/
Jan 9, 2019 - Newly implemented federal rules that call for the creation of mandatory insider threat detection programs will make competing for lucrative U.S. intelligence...
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https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-december-2025/
Dec 9, 2025 - Microsoft closed out the year with 1,139 total defects patched, making it the second-largest year in volume behind 2020, according to Trend Micro.
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https://cyberscoop.com/video/twws-kenice-middleton-on-why-training-is-essential-for-zero-trust-success/
Feb 27, 2025 - Kenice Middleton | Managing Partner | TWW
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https://cyberscoop.com/amazon-cyber-enabled-kinetic-targeting/
Nov 19, 2025 - The company said the boundaries between cyber and physical attacks are dissolving as nation-states use network intrusions to aid military targeting in real...
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https://cyberscoop.com/author/jeff-stonecyberscoop-com/
Jeff Stone is the editor-in-chief of CyberScoop, with a special interest in cybercrime, disinformation and the U.S. justice system. He previously worked as an...
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https://cyberscoop.com/video/why-blocking-cyber-threats-is-no-longer-enough/
Jun 10, 2025 - In a new CyberScoop video interview, Trinity Cyber’s Mike Denning explains how Full Content Inspection is redefining cyber defense by surgically removing...
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https://cyberscoop.com/radio/the-evolving-role-of-cisa-and-the-importance-of-making-threat-intelligence-and-resources-broadly-accessible-to-help-organizations-of-all-sizes-strengthen-their-cybersecurity-posture/
Nov 6, 2025 - Greg welcomes Jason Pufahl, VP of Security Services at Vancord.
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https://cyberscoop.com/video/trellixs-david-graziano-talks-data-loss-prevention-and-ai-driven-security/
Mar 3, 2025 - David Graziano | Vice President of Federal Civilian | Trellix
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https://cyberscoop.com/nozomi-networks-mitsubishi-electric-acquisition-ot-ics-cybersecurity/
Sep 9, 2025 - Industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi Electric has agreed to acquire OT and IoT cybersecurity specialist Nozomi Networks in a transaction that values the firm...
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https://cyberscoop.com/telecom-exec-salt-typhoon-inspiring-other-hackers-to-use-unconventional-techniques/
Sep 22, 2025 - AT&T’s chief information security officer said attackers are going where traditional defenses are less commonly employed.
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https://cyberscoop.com/ftc-settlement-apitor-childrens-privacy-violation/
Sep 3, 2025 - The FTC announced a settlement Tuesday with Chinese robot toy manufacturer Apitor, following an investigation that charged the company with illegally...
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