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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

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A new executive order accelerates federal timelines to replace widely used encryption that could be broken by future quantum computers with post-quantum cryptography. It frames slow adoption as a national security risk and directs agencies to prioritize inventorying, planning, and migrating affected systems.

6:30 PMArs Technica

Customers filed three class-action lawsuits against Madison Square Garden after a hacking group published data tied to an alleged theft of 26 million records. The exposed information reportedly includes personal and corporate details associated with the arena's operations.

1:56 PMNYT New York

Two alleged Scattered Spider members pleaded guilty in the UK to charges tied to an August 2024 attack that disrupted Transport for London. The pleas came on the first day of a trial that was expected to run six weeks.

12:12 PMKrebs on Security

A purportedly safer Anthropic model, Fable 5, designed to block assistance for cyberattacks, was reportedly bypassed within days. The jailbreak enabled outputs that the guardrails were intended to prevent.

7:03 AMSchneier on Security

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