The U.S. Department of Commerce is adding 36 Chinese high-tech companies, including makers of aviation equipment, chemicals and computer chips, to an export controls blacklist, citing concerns over national security, U.S. interests and human rights.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) are raising alarm on business email compromise (BEC) attacks leading to the theft of shipments of food products and ingredients.
Microsoft-owned code hosting platform GitHub this week announced multiple security improvements, including free secret scanning for public repositories and mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) for developers and contributors.
Social media analytics service Social Blade has confirmed a security breach after a hacker offered to sell a database allegedly stolen from the company's systems.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week recommended that IT professionals replace the SHA-1 cryptographic algorithm with newer, more secure ones.
Facebook parent company Meta on Thursday announced that it has paid out over $16 million in bug bounties since 2011, with $2 million awarded in 2022 alone.
