Source: Breaking Defense Pentagon Workers Vibe-Code 100,000 AI ‘Agents’ on Unclassified Networks WASHINGTON — Military personnel and Defense Department civilians have used a version of Google Gemini’s Agent Designer to create over 100,000 semi-autonomous AI agents in less than five weeks since the tool became available, a Pentagon official told Breaking Defense. “We’ve seen remarkable adoption…
Source: CISA Adapting Zero Trust Principles to Operational Technology Zero trust (ZT) offers a modern, adaptive approach to cybersecurity by eliminating implicit trust and continuously validating access based on identity, context, and risk. ZT principles assume a breach has already occurred and are designed to limit threat actor movement and potential damage. For operational technology…
Source: Washington Technology The Real Reason CMMC Costs Are Shocking Companies Well before the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) went into effect in November 2025, a major concern within the defense industrial base was the cost of attaining and maintaining certification. Now that the phased rollout of CMMC is well underway, some companies report that…
Source: Consumer Reports What the FCC Ban on Foreign-Made Routers Means for U.S. Consumers The action doesn’t apply to routers currently on store shelves, but it raises questions about future supplies. Here’s what you need to know. In March, citing national security concerns, the Federal Communications Commission said it was banning all new foreign-made WiFi…
Source: Federal News Network CMMC Won’t Fail on Controls. It Will Fail on Proof. Most of the conversation on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) has been about controls: Do you have multi-factor authentication (MFA)? Is your controlled unclassified information (CUI) encrypted at rest? Have you deployed endpoint detection and response (EDR) across your endpoints?…
Source: TechRadar The Best Free Antivirus Software for 2026 What Is the Most Widely Used Antivirus Software? Every Windows computer comes with Microsoft Defender Antivirus preinstalled, making it the most widely used antivirus software. However, if you’ve installed third-party protection, Defender stays on the sidelines. If no other antivirus is present or your existing antivirus…
Source: NSA Russian Hackers Are Inside American Home Routers. The FBI Has a 5-Step Fix Most home routers sit in a corner, ignored, and that’s exactly what Russia’s military intelligence unit was counting on. The GRU group known as APT28, responsible for some of the most significant state-sponsored hacks of the past decade, spent years…
Source: IEEE 40 Years of Wireless Evolution Leads to a Smart, Sensing Network Every wireless generation produced one surprise nobody predicted. 6G’s surprise may be the network itself increasingly disappearing—present everywhere, noticed nowhere. Every generation of mobile networks, from 1G to 5G, has rewritten the rules of how the world lives and works. The coming…
Source: FEDSCOOP Why Automation is Key to Modernizing Federal IT Compliance By replacing spreadsheet-based processes with FedRAMP-authorized automated workflows, federal agencies can gain real-time visibility, improve audit readiness, and reduce risk by strengthening compliance with key mandates. Every federal CIO and CISO faces a mission-critical reality: risk must be managed continuously, and compliance must be…
