Fortinet confirms a recently rumored zero-day. Officials investigate how restricted chips ended up in products from Huawei. The White House unveils a coordinated AI strategy for national security. Researchers jailbreak LLMs with Deceptive Delight. A new ransomware group exploits vulnerable device drivers. Sensitive documents from a UN trust fund are leaked online. Penn State pays over a millions dollars to settle allegations of inadequate security in government contracts. CISA adds a SharePoint vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. A Microsoft report warns of growing election disinformation. On our industry voices segment, Eric Herzog, CMO of Infinidat, discusses merging cybersecurity and cyber storage resilience.  China is shocked - shocked! - that its space program has drawn the attention of foreign spies. 

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On our industry voices segment, Eric Herzog, CMO of Infinidat, discusses merging cybersecurity and cyber storage resilience. 

Selected Reading

Mandiant says new Fortinet flaw has been exploited since June (Bleeping Computer)

TSMC Cuts Off Client After Discovering Chips Sent to Huawei (Bloomberg)

White House unveils plan for US government to keep its edge on AI development (The Record)

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Outlines Coordinated Approach to Harness Power of AI for U.S. National Security (The White House)

New LLM jailbreak method with 65% success rate developed by researchers (SC Media)

Embargo Ransomware Disables Security Defenses (GovInfo Security)

Misconfigured UN Database Exposes 228GB of Gender Violence Victims' Data (Hackread)

Penn State Settles for $1.25M Over Failure to Comply With DoD, NASA Cybersecurity Requirements (SecurityWeek)

CISA Warns Active Exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability (Cyber Security News)

As Election Looms, Disinformation ‘Has Never Been Worse’ (The New York Times) 

Microsoft Warns Foreign Disinformation Is Hitting the US Election From All Directions (WIRED)

China’s space programme targeted by ‘audacity’ of foreign agents, anti-spy agency warns (South China Morning Post) 

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