TechCrunch: The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real-world cyberattacks.”The Federal Bureau of Investigation is pulling back the curtain on a 22,000 square-foot replica town on its Huntsville, Alabama campus that it built to train law enforcement in simulating and investigating real-world cyberattacks.”

UK Hackathons Expose 400+ Vulnerabilities in AI-Powered Code Scans

By empowering teams to build their own AI-powered tooling and iterate on the best approaches, the Government Cyber Coordination Centre (GC3) successfully uncovered over 400 vulnerabilities in a series of innovative hackathons. This collaborative, flexible approach allowed teams to create bespoke solutions…

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Gizmodo: The SolarWinds Hack Was More Humiliating for the Government Than We Thought. “The SolarWinds attack in 2020 was a humiliating all-out assault on U.S. government cybersecurity, and it’s likely that one key reason it’s not more famous is that we still know very little about what the hackers achieved. But we now have a few more crumbs to work with, because new revelations from […]

Politico: New Pentagon task force races to bring powerful AI tools to America’s most sensitive networks. “The Pentagon’s cyber-warfighting arm is launching a task force to speed up the adoption of cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools with powerful hacking capabilities, according to three people with knowledge of the effort.”

Krebs on Security: CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github. “Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems.”

The Register: French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency. “French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old on April 25 over the alleged theft of millions of records from France Titres (ANTS), the agency handling secure documents.”

The Register: NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns. “The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization’s open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic’s Mythos. According to guidance shared internally within the organization and seen by The Register, GitHub […]

Maryland Matters: Maryland property search tool is back online, nearly two weeks after cyber attack. “Maryland’s property ownership database is back online as of Monday after a nearly two-week hiatus because of a cybersecurity incident. After state officials detected suspicious activity on their servers, they took down the state officials took the State Department of Assessments and Taxation […]

Maryland Matters: Maryland property search tool goes offline after cyber threat. “Maryland’s online property records database has been offline for nearly a week following a cybersecurity breach, according to a statement from the State Department of Assessments and Taxation. State officials believe that compromised systems only included public records that users could already find on the SDAT […]

The Register: European Commission admits attackers broke into public web systems, but says little else . “The European Commission has admitted that attackers broke into its public-facing web infrastructure and siphoned off data in a bare-bones disclosure that answers the what but ducks most of the how.”