State and Local Leaders Lobby Congress for Cybersecurity Resources Summary Emergency funding for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) is set to expire on 30 September after federal…
Downgrade Attack Allows Phishing Kits to Bypass FIDO Summary Researchers from Proofpoint have demonstrated a proof-of-concept downgrade attack that lets phishing kits bypass FIDO authentication for Microsoft Entra ID by…
Daily briefing: Bird flu is ‘everywhere’ on dairy farms Summary Nature Briefing (12 August 2025) — a concise daily round-up by Flora Graham — highlights a worrying preprint that suggests…
Daily briefing: Why some places on our bodies heal without scars Summary Nature’s daily briefing (13 August 2025) gathers a handful of short, timely science stories. The lead item examines…
Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders Summary Recent advances in gene-editing tools — notably prime editing and base editing, both offshoots of CRISPR —…
Brazilian PhD students opt out of US research opportunities Summary Over the past year a noticeable number of Brazilian PhD students who had planned to undertake research in the United…
Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger Summary The journal Science has lifted an expression of concern on a high-profile 2020 paper that claimed evidence for Majorana…
A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection Summary A brain–computer interface (BCI) developed by Kunz et al. decodes imagined (internal) speech in near real time for people who…
Hackers reportedly compromise Canadian House of Commons through Microsoft vulnerability Summary Hackers accessed a House of Commons database by exploiting a recent Microsoft vulnerability, CBC reported. Staff were alerted after…
FCC’s data breach reporting rules for telecoms are upheld in appeals court Summary The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s 2024 rule requiring…
