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VA plans to cut 1,000 IT positions, undoing Biden-era hiring surge

The VA would see a 4% spending increase under the FY 2026 budget proposal, but is looking to cut about 2,000 positions from the Veterans Benefits Administration The post VA plans to cut 1,000 IT positions, undoing Biden-era hiring surge first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Attackers fake IT support calls to steal Salesforce data

Over the past several months, a threat group has been actively breaching organizations’ Salesforce instances and exfiltrating customer and business data, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has warned. The attackers in question – currently tracked as UNC6040 – are masters at voice phishing (“vishing“): they are impersonating the organizations’ IT support personnel and manipulating employees into sharing credentials and connecting a malicious app to their organization’s Salesforce portal. The primary goal is the exfiltration of … More → The post Attackers fake IT support calls to steal Salesforce data appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Federal identity management: Adapting to evolving cyber threats

Federal agencies are shifting from compliance-driven identity management to proactive identity security strategies to combat breaches and insider threats. The post Federal identity management: Adapting to evolving cyber threats first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Federal Executive Forum Health Care IT Strategies in Government Progress and Best Practices 2025

What health care IT strategies have proven successful and what are the priorities for the future? The post Federal Executive Forum Health Care IT Strategies in Government Progress and Best Practices 2025 first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Federal Executive Forum Health Care IT Strategies in Government Progress and Best Practices 2025

What health care IT strategies have proven successful and what are the priorities for the future? The post Federal Executive Forum Health Care IT Strategies in Government Progress and Best Practices 2025 first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Proposed 2025 budget bill will make health savings accounts more generous

HSAs will gain increased flexibility and higher contribution limits, making HDHPs an even more attractive choice for federal employees. The post Proposed 2025 budget bill will make health savings accounts more generous first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Cobalt improves pentest transparency, automation, and risk prioritization

Cobalt announced a set of product enhancements within the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform aimed at helping customers scale security testing with greater clarity, automation, and control. These innovations further the company’s commitment to deliver expert-driven, fast-to-launch pentesting, now with even richer data and streamlined workflows. The Cobalt Platform centralizes access to security services from a team of expert pentesters, making it easier to find and fix vulnerabilities across an organization’s environments. By enabling faster pentest … More → The post Cobalt improves pentest transparency, automation, and risk prioritization appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Phishing e-mail that hides malicious link from Outlook users, (Wed, Jun 4th)

I recently came across an interesting phishing e-mail. At first glance, it looked like a “normal” phishing that tried to pass itself off as a message from one of the Czech banks asking account holders to update their information…
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Google fixes Chrome zero-day with in-the-wild exploit (CVE-2025-5419)

Google has fixed two Chrome vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw (CVE-2025-5419) with an in-the-wild exploit. About CVE-2025-5419 CVE-2025-5419 is a high-severity out of bounds read and write vulnerability in V8, the JavaScript and WebAssembly engine developed by Google for the Chromium and Chrome web browsers. It allows remote attackers to trigger heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. It was reported by Clément Lecigne and Benoît Sevens of Google’s Threat Analysis Group – a specialized … More → The post Google fixes Chrome zero-day with in-the-wild exploit (CVE-2025-5419) appeared first on Help Net Security.
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