Government Regulations

An authenticated user could use the flaw to execute unauthorized code.

Security pros say more regulation is inevitable in the wake of Cloudflare, AWS outages.

Reuters reports that Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has been urged by the Senate Commerce Committee's top Democrat Maria Cantwell of Washington to ditch the planned revocation of cybersecurity requirements for telecommunications providers implemented by the Biden administration following the widespread Salt Typhoon breach of U.S. telcos, including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies, last year.

The proposed changes aim to streamline EU digital laws but are viewed as a covert attempt to dismantle crucial protections against digital threats.

Both the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Security Act and the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program have been extended until Jan. 30, 2026, after President Donald Trump approved the federal funding bill, which concludes the 43-day government shutdown that is the longest on record, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Feds say multiple organizations observed not patching to the minimum software version.

Joint law enforcement team targeted three malware strains at the heart of ransomware worldwide.

Multiple Democratic-led states have been urged by a group of lawmakers from the same party to follow the lead of Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Washington state in blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement's access to their drivers' information, which could be weaponized in the Trump administration's mass deportation program, reports Reuters.