The National Security Agency (NSA) has awarded the 12th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition to “Decoding Trust: Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models.” The winning paper, authored by 19 researchers including Professors Dawn Song (UC Berkeley), Bo Li (UIUC), and Sanmi Koyejo (Stanford), proposes a groundbreaking evaluation framework for assessing the trustworthiness of large language models (LLMs) such as GPTs.

The National Security Agency has published their 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review!

In an effort to be more transparent, the National Security Agency publishes an annual year in review sharing information regarding cybersecurity efforts that better equipped U.S. defenses against high priority cyber threats. NSA’s efforts to help secure the nation’s most sensitive systems also help your cybersecurity because NSA cascades these solutions through public guidance and engages with key technology providers to help them bolster the security of their products and services.

When countries design their cyber defense strategies, they do so on the premise that they can defend against malicious cyber operations only after the impacts of such acts materialize. Instead of taking this reactive posture, however, the United States spearheaded a paradigm shift to a proactive posture in 2018, when the Department of Defense (DOD) developed the “Defend Forward” strategy. This posture has since been maintained in the United States, and was reaffirmed in the introduction of the 2023 Department of Defense Cyber Strategy.

On July 10, 2025, Cybersecurity News published an in-depth overview examining how residential proxies—real-user IP addresses sourced from homes—are becoming essential components for ethical web intelligence and cybersecurity research.