Security Program Controls/Technologies

Implementation of a backdoor that would enable government access to Apple users' cloud storage data could set a precedent for authoritarian nation-states and threat actors, with Electronic Frontier Foundation's Thorin Klosowski noting the threat of a global emergency stemming from the secret order.

Increasing concerns regarding the potential utilization of Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek for foreign government surveillance have prompted New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to ban the AI chatbot's usage across all state-issued devices just days after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a similar prohibition for DeepSeek and Chinese-owned social media apps.

Purportedly included in the exfiltrated information were officers' personal details and photos, gun licenses, email addresses, suspects' and criminals' personal data, sex offender employment permit details, and other classified documents, according to Handala, which also alleged the compromise of Israeli Ministry of National Security servers.

Infiltration of rural hospital's systems led to the theft of individuals' names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, health insurance details, and medical history and treatment data, said Memorial Hospital & Manor in a filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General.

"Our technology response team has been working with third-party specialists to fully restore our systems and investigate the nature of these disruptions," said a Lee Enterprises spokesperson, who noted an ongoing effort to identify any information that may have been compromised as a result of the incident that was neither confirmed nor denied to be a ransomware intrusion.

Iran accounted for most of the vulnerable KerioControl instances, followed by the U.S., Italy, Germany, and Russia, according to The Shadowserver Foundation.

Such a vulnerability — which was discovered and reported by the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs' The Citizen Lab — affects iPhone XS and later, iPad 7th generation and later, iPad mini 5th generation and later, all iPad Pro 11-inch generations, iPad Pro 13-inch, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd gen and later, and iPad Air 3rd generation and later.