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    Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face deal could benefit enterprises

    The chipmaker’s acquisition could eventually bring additional security resources and model evaluation tools to the platform, according to experts.

    By Paige Gross • Sept. 4, 2026
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    Government, industry partner to shut down long-running Sality botnet

    A nonprofit group is now working to contact victims.

    By • Sept. 3, 2026
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    CISO Strategy

    AI is rapidly transforming the cybersecurity landscape, and CISOs must keep pace.

    By Cybersecurity Dive staff
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    Government lacks ability to verify AI labs’ claims, experts say

    A new survey of national security practitioners identified a wide range of near- and medium-term AI risks for policymakers to consider.

    By • Sept. 3, 2026
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    CISA scraps 6 free cybersecurity assessments for critical infrastructure operators

    The agency’s decision, spurred by workload concerns, could leave organizations without valuable insights into their vulnerabilities.

    By • Updated Sept. 3, 2026
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    Treasury to help financial firms transition to quantum-resistant encryption

    The government is concerned that hackers could someday decrypt financial information and other secrets using code-breaking quantum computers.

    By • Aug. 26, 2026
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    House Democrats ask GAO to study CISA workforce cuts

    Five lawmakers serving on the Homeland Security Committee said Congress didn’t know enough about the Trump administration’s changes to the cybersecurity agency.

    By • Aug. 24, 2026
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    Fitch explains how water, healthcare organizations can keep strong credit ratings despite cyberattacks

    Resilience, not prevention, is key, analysts at the credit-rating agency said in a pair of new reports.

    By • Aug. 20, 2026
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    AI-powered vulnerability clearinghouse faces deep skepticism, major challenges

    The U.S. government’s promises about the Gold Eagle coordination program are overblown, experts said, but the initiative could help organizations prioritize patching and mitigation.

    By • Aug. 18, 2026
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    US government will let private companies hack criminal gangs

    The new program, meant to aggressively disrupt costly cybercrime schemes, carries numerous legal and security risks.

    By • Updated Aug. 13, 2026
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    CVE Program eyes automation and globalization to weather AI ‘vulnpocalypse’

    The vulnerability coordination project has had a rocky few years, but a key leader says it will “flourish and improve.”

    By • Aug. 11, 2026
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    AI firms know policymakers won’t ‘let you make a Terminator factory,’ DHS official says

    The Trump administration believes leading AI companies have learned important lessons from recent incidents and regulation isn’t necessary to preserve those lessons.

    By • Aug. 7, 2026
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    Western government leaders call for a focus on infrastructure resilience, not AI hype

    U.S. and allied officials said companies should start preparing now for a cyberattack that changes how they provide essential services.

    By • Aug. 5, 2026
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    CISA is prioritizing work with critical infrastructure as it begins to recover from cuts

    The agency has been focused on helping secure systems at drinking and wastewater utilities in recent weeks.

    By • Aug. 5, 2026
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    Tech industry alliance proposes AI agent safety reporting program

    The information-sharing exchange is designed to widely share lessons learned from agentic AI security incidents.

    By • Aug. 4, 2026
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    Shadow AI, leadership resistance make AI governance tough for worried CISOs

    Fewer than half of CISOs think their bosses see AI security as a business enabler, according to an Okta survey.

    By • July 30, 2026
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    As data breaches grow costlier, ungoverned AI creates new risks

    Meanwhile, many companies still aren’t doing the basics to protect on-premises data, IBM found.

    By • July 29, 2026
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    Companies fear AI risks more than common cybersecurity threats

    That misprioritization could blind companies to the threats they should be focusing on, Arctic Wolf said in a new report.

    By • July 28, 2026
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    Tech industry giants say US must embrace openness, transparency in AI

    Open-source and open-weight AI models are essential cybersecurity tools, two groups of major AI and security firms said.

    By • July 27, 2026
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    GAO report details scope of cybersecurity regulation overlap

    A morass of rules is forcing companies to report the same information multiple times — and sometimes, those rules conflict.

    By • July 23, 2026
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    US launches vulnerability clearinghouse amid AI-fueled surge in flaws

    The Trump administration hopes the program will accelerate the discovery and fixing of serious technical problems before hackers exploit them.

    By • July 15, 2026
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    Businesses modernizing networks for AI fear expanding attack surface, limited visibility

    IT leaders are worried that security controls aren’t keeping pace with threats to AI systems.

    By • July 7, 2026
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    Most cybersecurity workers have been told to conceal a breach, report finds

    Security firm Bitdefender also found that U.S. companies were simultaneously more confident and more strained on cyber defense than foreign peers.

    By • July 2, 2026
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    DHS proposes new system for public-private infrastructure security collaboration

    The Trump administration eliminated the previous framework in 2025, sparking backlash from experts and infrastructure operators.

    By • June 30, 2026
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    Software, AI companies form alliance to tackle open-source security flaws

    The emergence of frontier AI models has increased the speed and capabilities of malicious hackers.

    By • June 26, 2026
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    White House’s state infrastructure cybersecurity initiative stalled

    The Trump administration says it wants to help states implement innovative defenses. Most states are still waiting for the call to participate.

    By • June 24, 2026