CISA Shortens SolarWinds Patch Deadline

Iran threatens tech firms as hackers strike Stryker. The EU advances efforts toward digital sovereignty. A foreign hacker stumbles upon the FBI’s Epstein files. DOGE used ChatGPT to cull humanities grants. Meta claims increased efforts against scams. A Wisconsin ambulance provider discloses a data breach. CISA shortens the patch deadline for a critical SolarWinds vulnerability. We preview this year’s RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox with Cecilia Marinier and Paul Kocher. Dangerous digital diets miss the mark. 

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Selected Reading

Iran-linked hackers claim responsibility for attack on US medical device maker Stryker (Reuters)

'Legitimate targets': Iran issues warning to US tech firms including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia (The Times of India)

Iranian trolls are flooding social media with pro-Tehran, anti-war propaganda (MS Now)

Commission announces €75 million EURO-3C Project to build a federated Telco-Edge-Cloud infrastructure for digital sovereignty (European Commission)

Hacker broke into FBI and compromised Epstein files, report says (TechCrunch)

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities (The New York Times)

Meta says it culled millions of scam ads amid accusations that it profits from them (The Record)

Bell Ambulance Ransomware Attack Impacts Over 237,000 Individuals (Beyond Machines)

CISA Mandates Emergency Patching for SolarWinds Web Help Desk Vulnerabilities (Beyond Machines)

AI Chatbots Are Giving Teens Absolutely Terrible Diet Advice, Study Warns (Gizmodo)

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