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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks at a press conference with other members of Senate Republican leadership following a policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on April 21, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Congress kicks the can down the road on surveillance law (again)

It’s the second extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 10 days, and a regular ritual for the Hill.

By Tim Starks

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cPanel’s authentication bypass bug is being exploited in the wild, CISA warns

Research

By Greg Otto

Brendan Carr, Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, said under current rules some telecoms “do the bare minimum” to verify callers and have “become complicit in illegal robocalling schemes.” (Image Source: Getty)

FCC tightens KYC rules for telecoms, closes loophole for banned foreign services

Cybersecurity

By Derek B. Johnson

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Former incident responders sentenced to 4 years in prison for committing ransomware attacks

By Matt Kapko
Two new extortion crews are speedrunning the Scattered Spider playbook

By Matt Kapko
Everyone’s building AI agents. Almost nobody’s ready for what they do to identity.

By Devin Lynch
Congress, industry ponder government posture for protecting data centers

By Tim Starks
Spy agency officials say job loss anxiety, moving fast ‘safely’ among top challenges in AI workforce overhaul

By Derek B. Johnson

Popular Stories

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Security leaders say the next two years are going to be ‘insane’

Kevin Mandia, Morgan Adamski, and Alex Stamos tell CyberScoop that AI is finding bugs faster than anyone can fix them, exploit development is accelerating, and most organizations…

By Greg Otto

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Across party lines and industry, the verdict is the same: CISA is in trouble

The agency lost a third of its people in a year. Now industry and lawmakers on both sides say it's unprepared for a potential crisis.

By Tim Starks

AI-powered health apps are flooding the market. But their data security policy is more of a pinky promise than a legal mandate. (Source: Getty Images)

Your AI doctor doesn’t have to follow the same privacy rules as your real one

AI apps are making their way into healthcare. It’s not clear that rigorous data security or privacy practices will be part of the package.

By Derek B. Johnson

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Cyber scholarship-for-service students say government has pulled rug on them, potentially burdening them with debt

Hiring freezes, budget cuts and more are raising questions about the future of CyberCorps.

By Tim Starks

A house full of open windows: Why telecoms may never purge their networks of Salt Typhoon

By Derek B. Johnson

‘Whatever we did was not enough’: How Salt Typhoon slipped through the government’s blind spots

By Tim Starks

Prolific Russian ransomware operator living in California enjoys rare leniency awaiting trial

By Matt Kapko

Trump and others want to ramp up cyber offense, but there’s plenty of doubt about the idea

By Tim Starks Mark Pomerleau

Who is sending those scammy text messages about unpaid tolls?

By Matt Kapko

Insights

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Why cyber modernization requires partners with technical plus acquisition expertise

By Katie Baxter

Image of US Capitol evoking data flow — Image: Scoop News Group

Why identity is the definitive cyber defense for federal agencies

By Daniel Wilbricht

Agencies push for digital transformation amid security challenges

By Scoop News Group

Photo illustration of AI and security.

Want to scale cyber defenders? Focus on AI-enabled security and organization-wide training

By Jay Bhalodia

Videos

T-Mobile’s Eric Jensen on the challenge of securing vast supply chains

By CyberScoop Staff

Datadog’s Emilio Escobar on compliance-first AI

By Scoop News Group

Cohesity’s Marlin McFate on risks tied to growing cloud dependence

By Scoop News Group

ThreatLocker’s Rob Allen on the dual impact of AI

By Scoop News Group

Podcasts

How government and Industry can raise the cost of cybercrime

By CyberScoop Staff

Proving Identity in the age of agents

By CyberScoop Staff

The federal government’s most underrated cybersecurity tool

By CyberScoop Staff

What does industry think of the White House’s cybersecurity strategy?

By CyberScoop Staff

The Latest

Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia talks to the crowd at the Workday Federal Forum on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (Photo by Sergey Kolupaev/EPNAC)

Federal CIO cautious on Anthropic’s Mythos despite planned rollout

Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-ll., speaks during an oversight forum with Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 22, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Rep. Delia Ramirez takes over as top House cybersecurity Dem

Gartner data indicates that “regulators are shifting their efforts away from awareness to full scale enforcement,” marking a significant shift from even the last few years in how aggressively states are investigating and penalizing companies for privacy law violations. (Image Source: Getty)

U.S. companies hit with record fines for privacy in 2025

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Chinese national extradited to US for pandemic-era Silk Typhoon attacks

Supreme Court Police standby as “The People vs the Poison” protesters gather at the US Supreme Court on April 27, 2026. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Supreme Court justices skeptically question both sides in geofence surveillance case

U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., departs a Democratic luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 6, 2025. (Photo by Eric Lee/Getty Images)

Senators seek answers about hackers obtaining sensitive student data from ostensibly anonymous tip line

A figure walking with a glowing trail of binary code emanating from a case, symbolizing stolen data. (Getty Images Plus)

BlackFile actively extorting data-theft victims in retail and hospitality sector

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 16: The American flag flies above the U.S. Capitol building during a press conference on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Latest spy power reauthorization bill leaves critics unimpressed

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Vercel attack fallout expands to more customers and third-party systems

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US, UK agencies warn hackers were hiding on Cisco firewalls long after patches were applied

Arik Ashkenazi, chief engineer at the Ein Netafim wastewater treatment plant, walks between water clarifier basins at the facility in Israel’s southern Red Sea port city of Eilat on July 13, 2023. Hemmed in between the Red Sea and a desert, isolated from the rest of Israel and with no natural freshwater, Eilat’s drinking water is a combination of desalinated groundwater and sea water. After its domestic use turns it into sewage, it is treated and then allocated to farmers, enabling the arid region to support an agricultural industry. While Eilat used to be the exception in Israel’s water management, it is now more of a prototype for the country and perhaps to the world. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Dragos: Despite AI use, new malware targeting water plants is ‘hype’

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Surveillance campaigns use commercial surveillance tools to exploit long-known telecom vulnerabilities

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A dozen allied agencies say China is building covert hacker networks out of everyday routers

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