Cyber Scoop

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• FCC
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• regulation
• Supreme Court
• Telecommunications

Court upholds FCC data breach reporting rules on telecom sector

Cyber Scoop August 15, 2025

Court upholds FCC data breach reporting rules on telecom...

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• crypto
• cryptocurrency
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Financial
• Garantex
• Government
• Grinex
• Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
• ransomware
• Russia
• sanctions
• State Department
• Threats
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US widens sanctions on Russian crypto exchange Garantex, its successor and affiliate firms

Cyber Scoop August 14, 2025

US widens sanctions on Russian crypto exchange Garantex, its...

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• encryption
• Geopolitics
• Privacy
• Russia
• surveillance
• Technology
• telegram
• WhatsApp

Russia restricts WhatsApp, Telegram calls, alleging criminal, terrorist activity

Cyber Scoop August 13, 2025

Russia restricts WhatsApp, Telegram calls, alleging criminal, terrorist activity...

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3 min read

• CVE
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Fortinet
• known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV)
• Research
• Technology
• Threats
• vulnerabilities
• vulnerability
• vulnerability disclosure
• Vulnerability Management
• vulnerability reporting

Fortinet SIEM issue coincides with spike in brute-force traffic against company’s SSL VPNs

Cyber Scoop August 13, 2025

Fortinet SIEM issue coincides with spike in brute-force traffic...

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• Alexei Bulazel
• Biden administration
• Border Gateway Protocol
• budget
• Center for Democracy & Technology
• China
• cyber workforce
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• DARPA
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• digital identity
• Eric Swalwell
• Executive order
• Foundation for Defense of Democracies
• Government
• Health-ISAC
• House Homeland Security Committee
• Institute for Security and Technology
• Mark Montgomery
• National Cyber Director
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• National Security Memorandum 22
• NIST
• Obama administration
• Office of the National Cyber Director
• open source
• Policy
• Privacy
• regulation
• resilience
• Sean Cairncross
• Sean Plankey
• secure-by-design
• Threat hunting
• Trump administration
• U.S. Cyber Trust Mark

The overlooked changes that two Trump executive orders could bring to cybersecurity

Cyber Scoop August 13, 2025

The overlooked changes that two Trump executive orders could...

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• Commentary
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Government
• op-ed

Patch the vulnerability: Confirm Sean Plankey as CISA director

Cyber Scoop August 13, 2025

Patch the vulnerability: Confirm Sean Plankey as CISA director...

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• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Exchange
• Exchange Server
• Microsoft
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Patch Tuesday
• Research
• Technology
• Threats
• vulnerabilities
• vulnerability disclosure
• Windows
• zero-days

Microsoft Patch Tuesday follows SharePoint attacks, Exchange server warnings

Cyber Scoop August 12, 2025

Microsoft Patch Tuesday follows SharePoint attacks, Exchange server warnings...

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• AI
• ChatGPT
• Cybersecurity
• GPT-5
• large language models
• OpenAI
• red team
• Research
• Technology

Guess what else GPT-5 is bad at? Security

Cyber Scoop August 12, 2025

Guess what else GPT-5 is bad at? Security |...

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• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• ransomware
• Research
• SonicWall
• Threats
• vulnerabilities
• vulnerability

SonicWall pins firewall attack spree on year-old vulnerability

Cyber Scoop August 11, 2025

SonicWall pins firewall attack spree on year-old vulnerability |...

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• Acquisition
• ArmyCyber
• AWS
• AWS 2025
• Booz Allen
• Booz Allen 2025
• Cybersecurity
• Dark Labels Detect
• executive perspective
• fedramp
• GovCloud
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• National Cyber Platform
• procurement
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Why cyber modernization requires partners with technical plus acquisition expertise

Cyber Scoop August 11, 2025

The digital landscape for federal agencies is a constantly...

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