Newly appointed U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been urged by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., to oppose the UK's reported order for Apple to develop a backdoor that would enable government access to encrypted iCloud data, which they argued to be detrimental to U.S. government and citizen data security, according to The Register.
SecurityWeek reports that open-source database management system PostgreSQL has been impacted by a new zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-1094, which has been leveraged as part of the attacks against vulnerable BeyondTrust Remote Support systems that impacted the U.S. Treasury Department.
BleepingComputer reports that attacks leveraging old critical ThinkPHP Framework and ownCloud file sharing and syncing platform vulnerabilities to facilitate arbitrary operating system command execution and data compromise have surged in recent days.