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Nevada's Governor's Technology Office has introduced a new statewide data classification policy designed to standardize how agencies categorize and protect information, which is the first across the U.S., The Associated Press reports.

The House's version of the Kids Online Safety Act was criticized by a bipartisan group of 40 state attorneys general for having inadequate protections ensuring minors' safety online, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

TechCrunch reports that the U.S. intelligence community was noted to have been directly damaged by former Trenchant executive Peter Williams' sale of surveillance and hacking tools from U.S. defense contractor L3Harris to a Russian firm contracted by the Russian government.

Acting Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Madhu Gottumukkala said another potential shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security could impede the agency's activities, according to CyberScoop.

More than 190,000 exposed and trackable web properties were discovered by Censys to be vulnerable to a recently addressed critical flaw impacting BeyondTrust's Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access offerings, which could be leveraged for operating system command execution, Cybernews reports.