#critical infrastructure

At Fort Bragg, the Army and 14 outside partners ran a tabletop exercise on simultaneous cyber, drone, utility, and communications disruptions aimed at slowing force deployment.

OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.5-Cyber, a less-restricted model variant for authorized security researchers, allowing tasks such as exploit development and malware analysis under a tiered access system.

As offensive AI tools spread faster than elite defensive systems, companies, governments and smaller nations risk falling further behind in the race to find and patch vulnerabilities.

Lobbyists for major tech firms are backing Colorado legislation that would exempt broadly defined ‘critical infrastructure’ hardware from the state’s right-to-repair law, alarming repair advocates and security experts.

As regional conflict escalates, desalination plants that supply drinking water across much of the Middle East are emerging as critical and vulnerable infrastructure under pressure from both attacks and climate change.

A new administration budget proposal would cut at least $707 million from CISA in 2027, sharply shrinking the agency’s resources as officials say it should refocus on network defense and critical infrastructure.