Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back

2026-08-13T19:23:51Zc21c41ff64b9e8337e2ae3d5ad050faecc7768122097095fa5d81e6c80d6b922
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What happened

Security news feed covering active exploitation, data breaches, ransomware, supply-chain and credential exposure, hardware side channels, critical infrastructure threats, AI-enabled attacks, and major vulnerability disclosures. Notable items include exploitation of a Microsoft Patch Tuesday flaw, N-able administrative access flaws reaching customer networks, a Metabase zero-day breach, exposed AWS credentials leading to charity data exposure, attacks against defense and healthcare organizations, and ransomware activity.

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