Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians, a large physician-owned primary care group based in Westerville, Ohio, with more than 80 locations, disclosed a breach affecting about 1.4 million current and former patients. In August 2026, an unauthorized third party used a voice phishing (vishing) attack to obtain credentials that gave access to i…
California has settled with 23andMe for $6 million over the 2023 credential-stuffing breach. The breach exposed personal and genetic data of about 6.9 million people, including 855,000 California residents. The settlement follows a July 2026 $18 million settlement with a coalition of 42 state attorneys general, which California did not jo…
Documents released by the defense team in the federal case against the Minnesota 15 show that a joint task force of six local officers and eight HSI Chicago agents surveilled an April 2 talk at the Co-Prosperity gallery in Chicago. The talk was part of a Crimethinc national tour in which Twin Cities anarchists discussed resisting Operatio…
A cybersecurity incident at US government contractor BAE Systems has knocked out the systems behind the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC), which generates and distributes bankruptcy notices for all federal bankruptcy courts in the US. The Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC) confirmed on October 15 that BNC IT systems and website…
US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% year-over-year between January and September 2026, according to a CyberSN analysis of JobSpikr data. The 235,786 roles posted are the lowest total in the four years CyberSN has run the analysis, against 273,498 in 2023, 244,911 in 2024 and 320,210 in 2025. Leadership roles fell sharply: CISO postin…
Conduent has agreed to pay $80m to settle a class action over the October 2024 cyber incident that exposed personal and health data of roughly 62 million people. The filing was submitted to the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on October 16, 2026, and confirmed in an 8-K filing with the SEC. The attack was allegedly carrie…
Wiz announced that its Wiz AI Agents are now available in Wiz for U.S. Government (Wiz for Gov), its FedRAMP High authorized environment. Wiz describes this as the first AI-Application Protection Platform (AI-APP) for U.S. public sector organizations that protect highly sensitive, national security and mission-critical data. This is vendo…
Recorded Future has moved its headquarters from Somerville, MA, where it had been based for twelve years in a former laundromat, to downtown Boston at Post Office Square. The article is a corporate culture and recruitment piece. It describes the new open-plan office, which houses nearly 200 employees across customer success, security, dat…
Huntress explains the compliance obligations of Texas law HB 3834, passed in June 2019. It requires state agency and local government employees, and state contractors, to complete a Department of Information Resources (DIR)-certified cybersecurity awareness training every year. Since September 1, 2025, HB 3512 adds a second annual require…
Huntress published an explainer on business email compromise (BEC), a targeted form of phishing in which attackers impersonate or take over trusted email accounts to redirect payments or steal credentials. The article cites roughly $55 billion in worldwide losses and a Huntress survey of 500+ US IT professionals, in which 36% of organizat…
This TechCrunch Equity interview features Amulya Vishwanath, founder and managing partner of Techable Ventures, a VC firm focused on physical AI. She is a former Nvidia product marketer. She argues that robotics has not yet had its "ChatGPT moment" and is in a "LEGO era", in which foundational software and hardware building blocks such as…
Court records obtained by NPR show that TikTok employees repeatedly warned executives about risks the platform posed to minors, including sexual exploitation and exposure to suicide-related content. Employee depositions filed in March 2026 describe frustration with how leadership responded. Staff reportedly flagged minors appearing in sex…
The Department of Justice announced 28 arrests across California on Monday under Operation Protect the Vote. The defendants are foreign nationals and permanent green card holders charged with fraudulently registering to vote and making false statements in naturalization applications. Officials say all 28 appear on a list of more than 20,0…
NIST, the NSA and CISA released a report, Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation, on handling AI agents that behave in unexpected or harmful ways. The report uses the term super intelligence (SI) instead of AI, in line with presidential executive order 14434. It sets out ten key pra…
TrustedSec (author Chris Camejo) explains that FCI and CUI safeguarding obligations do not exist during the pre-contract solicitation phase unless the contractor has agreed to a specific pre-contract agreement. Prime contractors, especially large DoD primes, are increasingly pushing CMMC, FAR 52.204-21 and DFARS 252.204-7012/7021 requirem…
Inspired Capital, the New York-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2019 by Alexa von Tobel and Penny Pritzker, closed its fourth fund with $450 million in commitments, bringing assets under management to nearly $1.4 billion. The article is business and funding news with no security incident, vulnerability, threat actor or malware co…
Reliable Robotics, a Mountain View, California startup building autonomous flight systems for existing aircraft, raised $115 million as an extension of its Series D. The round comprises $90 million in equity led by Nimble Partners and $25 million in debt from Silicon Valley Bank. It brings the Series D to $275 million, lifts the valuation…
Moody's Ratings published an analysis on October 19 warning that AI-driven cyberattacks could raise financial risk for organisations with weak security, because AI tools make attacks faster, more automated and more persistent. Earlier Moody's research from March, using Bitsight data on more than 9,000 Moody's-rated organisations, found th…
Spotify launched paid podcast memberships on Tuesday, letting creators monetize their biggest fans beyond paywalled bonus episodes. Creators choose the perks, such as bonus audio or video, fewer ads or early access. The feature was previewed at Spotify's Investor Day in May and is rolling out to 34 markets, including the U.S. The launch i…
Paradigm Healthcare Services, a San Francisco-based billing processor for Medi-Cal (California's Medicaid program) under a data use agreement with the California DHCS, told the US HHS that a breach affected more than 970,000 people. The company detected unauthorized access to its local network on October 13, 2025. It determined only on Au…