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Ex-Employee Sues Washington Post Over Oracle EBS-Related Data Breach

Jeffrey Burt | December 8, 2025 | Cl0p Ransomware, class action lawsuit, critical vulnerability, Data breach, Oracle EBS, The Washington Post

The Washington Post last month reported it was among a list of data breach victims of the Oracle EBS-related vulnerabilities, with a threat actor compromising the data of more than 9,700 former ...

Security Boulevard

IRS To Ditch Biometric Requirement for Online Access

BrianKrebs | February 7, 2022 | A Little Sunshine, id.me, Internal Revenue Service, Sen. Ron Wyden, The Washington Post, U.S. General Services Administration

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said today it will be transitioning away from requiring biometric data from taxpayers who wish to access their records at the agency's website. The reversal comes as ...

Krebs on Security

Report: U.S. Cyber Command Behind Trickbot Tricks

BrianKrebs | October 10, 2020 | alex holden, Hold Security, National Security Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, The Washington Post, TrickBot, U.S. Cyber Command

A week ago, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone was attempting to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, a malware crime machine that has infected millions of computers and is often used to spread ...

Krebs on Security

Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?

BrianKrebs | September 29, 2020 | 911 outage, A Little Sunshine, azure, CenturyLink, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Intrado, Microsoft, The Washington Post, West Corporation

Emergency 911 systems were down for more than an hour on Monday in towns and cities across 14 U.S. states. The outages led many news outlets to speculate the problem was related ...

Krebs on Security

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On