Senator Ron Wyden is pushing for the elimination of legacy VPNs from federal networks within two years, citing recurring national security risks from repeated emergency patching. Meanwhile, cyberattacks have targeted water facilities in Minnesota, and researchers have identified over 24,000 servers vulnerable to a long-standing IPMI protocol flaw. Microsoft has launched a specialized cybersecurity AI model, while a critical vulnerability in Arista’s VeloCloud Orchestrator software faces active exploitation. John Chiappetta, Chief Revenue Officer at Zona Systems, discusses the GAO’s aviation cybersecurity report, highlighting the cultural and technical challenges of securing legacy infrastructure in critical industries. He emphasizes that organizations must shift from reactive patching to proactive, zero-trust security models to protect sensitive remote access points. Additionally, a botnet named Dysphoria has compromised 200,000 devices, and Google has introduced a new threat actor naming taxonomy to simplify tracking.
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