Security News > 2025 > April

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
2025-04-16 00:00

Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right? Updated US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures...

ChatGPT 4.1 early benchmarks compared against Google Gemini
2025-04-15 21:20

ChatGPT 4.1 is now rolling out, and it's a significant leap from GPT 4o, but it fails to beat the benchmark set by Google's most powerful model, Gemini. [...]

Gartner’s 12 Emerging Tech Disruptors & Why ‘Technology Leaders Must Take Action Now’
2025-04-15 20:49

A Gartner distinguished VP analyst offers TechRepublic readers advice about which early-stage technologies that will define the future of business systems to prioritize.

Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz
2025-04-15 20:43

800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info...

Midnight Blizzard deploys new GrapeLoader malware in embassy phishing
2025-04-15 20:25

Russian state-sponsored espionage group Midnight Blizzard is behind a new spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic entities in Europe, including embassies. [...]

4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum
2025-04-15 18:56

Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard...

Landmark Admin data breach impact now reaches 1.6 million people
2025-04-15 18:33

Landmark Admin has issued an update to its investigation of a cyberattack it suffered in May 2024, increasing the number of impacted individuals to 1.6 million. [...]

Infamous message board 4chan taken down following major hack
2025-04-15 18:13

4chan, a notorious online forum, was taken offline earlier today after what appears to be a significant hack and has since been loading intermittently. [...]

China names alleged US snoops over Asian Winter Games attacks
2025-04-15 18:02

Beijing claims NSA went for gold in offensive cyber, got caught in the act China's state-run press has taken its turn in trying to highlight alleged foreign cyber offensives, accusing the US...

All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK'd judge
2025-04-15 17:41

Login green-lit for lone staffer if he’s trained, papered up, won’t pull an Elez A federal judge has partly lifted an injunction against Elon Musk's Trump-blessed cost-trimming DOGE unit, allowing...