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The FBI has removed an Accenture contractor over a data breach that exposed personal information of thousands of bureau employees, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The FBI has not publicly named the contractor or the organization involved. However, a senior bureau official told Reuters that its review so far points to a security patch that had not been applied by the contractor responsible for the affected system. “To date,…

Google has temporarily closed its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) to product vulnerability submissions, saying a growing number of automated reports, most of them invalid, prompted the move. The pause was announced on X on October 1. “This pause is due to a significant rise in automated submissions, the vast majority of which are not valid,” Google said. Only product vulnerabilities are covered by the pause. According to Google, it has no…

President Donald Trump on Sunday tapped Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence. Trump is calling it the “Super Intelligence Force,” because he has tried to rebrand AI as “super intelligence.” The announcement comes after Trump hosted top executives of AI companies at the White House last week and said they had signed a voluntary accord that would effectively self-police the development of the technology.…

Miami, FL-based doxx.net has raised $38 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Animo Ventures and Focal.vc. The firm was founded in 2025 by serial founder and hacker-at-heart Barrett Lyon, and it operates across six continents. The new funding was announced at the same time as the doxx.net Agentic Defined Networking (ADN) platform, currently in open beta, was announced. This platform gives agents an environment with defined connectivity…

SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers stay well-informed about the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights:  Microsoft threat report sees phishing triple as exploit windows shrink Microsoft’s 2026 Digital…

Is zero trust still effective in the AI era? A new book from John Kindervag says yes, but that assumes it is correctly implemented. John Kindervag introduced the concept of zero trust in a Forrester Research report titled No More Chewy Centers: Introducing the Zero Trust Model of Information Security published in 2010. Since then, the concept has become a foundational precept within cybersecurity. Fifteen years later, he was asked to write a new book…